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Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger (center) leaves the Frank Crowley Courts Building in downtown Dallas. A reader is glad to see Guyger made parole.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Give her peace\u00a0<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cEx-officer Guyger gets parole after 7 years\u00a0\u2014 Shooting in 2018 of unarmed Black man in Dallas apartment brought 10-year prison term,\u201d Friday news story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was happy to see Amber Guyger getting paroled. She made a mistake after many overtime hours of duty. She killed a man, but it was never murder. It was manslaughter. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Her physical condition caused the error, and it seemed that the city of Dallas and her department didn\u2019t want to share the responsibility. She was the other victim in this case, and she has been punished enough. Give her peace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the Texas way\u00a0<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cGreg Abbott\u2019s flip-flop on Texas education\u00a0\u2014 The governor no longer believes in a bedrock conservative value,\u201d by Glenn Rogers, online column.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the state neglects public schools, it forgets more than Article 7 of the Texas Constitution. It forsakes the Texas Revolutionaries who penned this grievance in the Texas Declaration of Independence, their brethren still besieged at the Alamo: \u201c[Mexico] has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources\u2026that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self-government.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
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If public education was dear enough for the Texas revolutionaries to risk it all, why not preserve their legacy and support it better today? Instead, politicians say \u201cgovernment schools\u201d like a slur, but they are the guardians. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Certainly, public education is not a perfect institution, but one worth perfecting nonetheless through local control and bipartisan support. Let\u2019s bathe Texas\u2019 baby without discarding it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Underfunding and overregulation characterize conservative Texas governance, but Edmund Burke, the father of political conservatism, promoted \u201ca disposition to preserve.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Denounce flaws without renouncing \u201cexisting materials.\u201d Support public schools. Right or left, it\u2019s the Texas way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cassie Payne Webb, Allen \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Applauding for Mesquite\u00a0<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cTenants prevail in battle over complex\u00a0\u2014 150 tenants awarded $500,000 to relocate from trouble apartments with help from the city, advocates,\u201d Monday news story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thank you for this front-page story covering the many years of deplorable living conditions for Tradewind Apartments in Mesquite. Finally, the apartments are condemned, and tenants have been relocated. \u00a0<\/p>\n
When we purchased our home within blocks of Tradewind in 1979, the apartments were about 12 years old and a nice place to live. Over the years due mostly to poor management and maintenance, the apartments deteriorated, becoming not only an eyesore for the neighborhood but an unsafe place for tenants.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I applaud the city of Mesquite for persistence condemning Tradewind Apartments and particularly Assistant City Manager Raymond Rivas for supporting those who fought back until the 264-unit dilapidated buildings were evacuated. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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My next question is, \u201cNow what?\u201d In my opinion, the best thing for the neighborhood and the city is to bulldoze the buildings. I suspect it would be too cost-prohibitive to properly remodel what has turned into a slum and an unsafe place to reside. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Millie Arnold, Mesquite\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vote for Cornyn\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 1954, Strom Thurmond was elected U.S. senator from South Carolina by a write-in vote. So, a precedent has been set for this type of vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The people of Texas who want to see John Cornyn remain as our senator should write in his name on Election Day. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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E. B. Shiller, Grapevine\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cruz\u2019s role on Jan. 6\u00a0<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cSenators clash over Smith\u2019s Trump prosecution,\u201d Wednesday news story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That Sen. Ted Cruz lashed out at Jack Smith during a Senate hearing is understandable given Cruz\u2019s own role on Jan. 6. Even after the rioters left the Capitol, Cruz still proposed that Congress delay the electoral vote count for 10 days. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Six years later, after numerous hand recounts and signature audits, payments of hundreds of millions of dollars by Fox News for platforming false accusations about voting machines, Cyber Ninjas hired by Arizona Republicans examining ballots for bamboo fibers and false accusations of Georgia poll workers by Rudy Giuliani, those who have chosen to believe the 2020 election was stolen still largely hold that belief.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In a late-night call on Jan. 6 to Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s counsel, John Eastman urged that Pence should commit a \u201cminor violation\u201d of the Electoral Count Act and adjourn the Senate for 10 days per Cruz\u2019s proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is plausible that Cruz\u2019s proposal to delay was intended to further the argument that the Electoral Count Act had already been violated and create the argument that the only legal path forward was to throw the presidential election into the House of Representatives, where each state got one vote and Republicans controlled more states. \u00a0<\/p>\n
That was the final option laid out in the John Eastman strategy memo on how to undo the popular election results. Cruz, who had clerked with Eastman early in his career, would have reason to be concerned if phone records showed they were collaborating. \u00a0<\/p>\n
When asked, Eastman took the Fifth. Cruz refused to provide a clear yes or no.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bill Luthans, Dallas\/Lake Highlands\u00a0<\/p>\n
Check out ‘Silent Spring’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cTrump says tech firms agree to ‘self-police,’\u201d Wednesday news story.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For those who have confidence in President Donald Trump\u2019s notion that corporate tech firms will self-police, may I recommend Rachel Carson\u2019s seminal 1962 book, Silent Spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrew L. Norton, Mesquite\u00a0<\/p>\n