Letters: Neighborly effort brings holiday joy; Party extremes can’t be compared

Neighborly effort brings holiday joy

For as long as I can recall, every holiday season a group of residents along South Sparks Street erect a festive depiction of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” One lawn displays 12 lords leaping, the next 11 ladies dancing, right on down to two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

These dozen lawn decorations require coordinated time and effort — and with the spotlights involved, extra electrical expenses. I’ll also bet that through the years not all the participants have been practicing Christians. Nevertheless, they apparently hope that passersby find enjoyment and take pleasure in their work.

Personally, I know none of these residents and I’d hesitate to single them out if I did. But we have an apt expression to describe people like these. We call them good neighbors.

Party extremes can’t be compared

Yesterday, I was given the reason for someone not voting that there were extremes in both parties. This is disingenuous. The extremes in the Democratic Party want to take your tax money and provide you with health care, education, mitigate the worst of climate change, protect voting rights for all citizens regardless of party affiliation, provide paid leave for medical necessities and childbirth, and protect our threatened democracy.

The extremes in the Republican Party want to take your tax money and reexamine our fair elections because a narcissistic, sociopath cannot believe he lost an election, disenfranchise by gerrymandering any voter who don’t vote for the Republican Party, refuse to even bring up for debate any bills they don’t sponsor, ignore the obvious and dangerous effects of climate change and, frankly, just protect their own jobs without doing any work. They don’t even have a platform of ideas anymore. The most extreme of the Republican Party have lined the streets in Dallas waiting for JFK to come back to life.

Who do you really want in office protecting your interests.

Equating the two parties if ridiculous.

Invest in the environment with airport funds

Last Friday’s CDT article on the upcoming federal funding of close to $2 million got me hoping that those local officials who made a list of projects will include the following.

Improve what is being used for their firefighting foams and deicing chemicals. What has been used for years for both operations are not environmentally sound. The first has the horrible PFAS additive and the second makes use of glycols, which are being found in surface and ground water near the airport.

Please plan to use some of that money to correct that situation and not for paying off fines to the EPA.