Letters To The Editor: Food Rescue Efforts

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Southold

Food rescue efforts

Cost-cutting policies enacted by nan existent management are having a devastating effect connected little fortunate members of our communities. Worsening nutrient insecurity is placing further burdens connected section nutrient banks.

Food Rescue US–North Fork would for illustration to convey The Suffolk Times and Riverhead News-Review for publishing writer Deborah Wetzel’s March 20 article, “Local group seeks nutrient and transporters, to nan rescue!”

Thanks to that article, we person been contacted by galore organization members willing successful volunteering to “be nan rescue.” We want to definitive our gratitude for nan support we received from nan paper, arsenic good arsenic to nan volunteers and donors moving together to thief america execute our ngo of filling plates, not landfills.

Stephanie McEvily and Anne Howard

Site co-directors, Food Rescue US–North Fork

Greenport

Shortsighted firings

Dominic Bossey’s sentiment portion astir nan firing of national workers (March 27) was correct connected target. I’m a retired national employee, having worked nan past fewer years of my master profession arsenic a scientist astatine nan Manhattan VA Hospital. I retrieve erstwhile I first started to activity location that I was truthful impressed pinch nan attraction that I thought we each should person a VA successful our lives.

Our veterans merit each nan attraction that they person astatine nan VA, and I consciousness honored to person been capable to thief them successful immoderate measurement I could. Cutting unit conscionable because you tin is shortsighted and conscionable plain incorrect — for nan national workers and for those they serve.

Margaret Backman

Riverhead

Yellow Barn

It seems arsenic though Riverhead Free Library is biting nan manus that feeds it. For years I person shopped astatine nan Yellow Barn and spoken pinch nan women who tally it. They are successful that barn successful nan rainfall and successful nan basking sun, stocking shelves and giving maine recommendations. I americium sad to cognize that they will not beryllium location this twelvemonth to shake hands maine aliases proviso maine pinch books for nan summer, and I americium angry astatine nan room for blaming The Friends trying to connection support. How tin you take to trim disconnected an statement that offers you up to $30,000 successful payments for room programs and services each year? Because they take to connection scholarships to Riverhead seniors arsenic well? Because they take to support our schools by providing donations of supplies to those students who request it most?

Isn’t nan room expected to beryllium a support for nan organization arsenic well? How tin it perchance dress up for not having that money this twelvemonth without asking for nan organization to measurement up erstwhile we’re each being stretched bladed arsenic it is? It’s a disappointment to myself and galore others, and shows mediocre determination making and activity connected behalf of nan library.

Ashley Cizikas

Southold

Honor

“There is nary grant among thieves” is simply a clip worn adage and is still existent today.

Anyone pinch an ounce of communal consciousness knows that each nan spinning astir nan Signal chat is full B.S.

The Trump management is utilizing semantics and parsing words successful a pathetic effort to dodge accountability for a breathtaking screw-up of epic proportions.

Harry Truman famously said:,“The subordinate stops here.” Trump never, ever takes immoderate work for anything. Why do immoderate superior citizens return him earnestly ?

His newest accomplice, Elon Musk, nan richest man successful nan world, is trying to return captious resources distant from nan neediest group successful our country.

Honor is simply a paramount worth for galore people, including nan U.S. Marine Corps, whose codification is : Honor, Courage and Commitment

Sadly, grant is astatine champion a quaint conception to nan Trump administration. Rather: dodge, deflect, onslaught and ne'er “man up” and return work for your actions, your mistakes and nan consequences.

Meanwhile, our congressman, Nick Lalota, a Navy veteran, is mindlessly defending Trump and his feckless nationalist information team. Please interaction him and fto him cognize really you consciousness astir this nationalist information debacle. Think agelong and difficult earlier ever voting for him again.

Dick Sheehan

Lewes, Del.

Misquoted

While still keeping up pinch what’s going connected successful Southold Town, I conscionable wanted to fto nan writer of nan etter “History erased” (March 20) cognize that nan building “A time that will unrecorded successful infamy” was spoken and coined by Franklin D Roosevelt and not Winston Churchill. I americium judge that nan writer, arsenic a erstwhile journalist, will admit nan humanities building being credited to nan due leader.

Art Beisel

Southold

Quality quilter

Wow! I was happy to publication nan beautiful article successful The Suffolk Times astir section quilter Roberta Garris. Her activity is beautiful, meaningful and ever timely. As agelong arsenic I’ve known her, she’s been a tireless and generous female who unselfishly volunteers for her community, synagogue and neighbors.

Elaine Goldman

Southold

Poor judgment

Shame connected nan rule patient Paul Weiss!

It is pinch awesome disappointment, but not surprise, that I watch their deficiency of courageousness and foresight successful bending nan knee to our defendant-in-chief. By capitulating to unit and punishment from nan management for doing normal ineligible activity that conscionable happened to displease nan president, they are showing a cowardice that will ripple retired to different rule firms and thief to cripple our judicial system.

This is not nan first clip I person seen Paul Weiss stumble into short-sightedness and a missing of nan moment. In nan precocious 1980s Paul Weiss gave maine agency abstraction successful Hong Kong — a generous pro bono gift to nan U.S.-China postgraduate schoolhouse I worked for, a pioneering associated task betwixt Johns Hopkins and Nanjing universities. But aft nan Tiananmen Square massacre successful June 1989, Paul Weiss unopen down its Hong Kong believe — against nan wise proposal of its elder partner. The patient feared location wouldn’t beryllium capable activity for nan believe arsenic skittish U.S. companies debated pulling backmost from China. Not agelong aft nan patient went done nan disruption and disbursal of dismantling nan Hong Kong office, however, U.S.-China business relations roared backmost and — pinch awesome disbursal — Paul Weiss opened a Hong Kong agency again.

With its misguided decision-making immoderate 35 years ago, Paul Weiss only harmed itself. Its decisions now are harming each of us.

Patricia Lloyd

Riverhead

Drones are still up there

Every nighttime for months, including this week and correct now, I observe car-size drones transversing complete my location continues complete nan Hillcrest Horse workplace flashing achromatic and reddish lights. This goes connected arsenic soon arsenic it gets acheronian and continues astir of nan night. One 1000 to 15 100 feet supra nan character line. I contacted News12 and apparently they were not forthcoming. It is concerning and I cannot judge location haven’t been galore reports because they are very obvious. I dream personification tin find nan truth.

Ralph Esposito

Orient

Incorrect ‘facts’?

This is successful consequence to nan March 20 missive “History erased.” I wish to correct nan extended misinformation contained successful nan original letter. When reference it I instantly noticed that nan writer erroneously credited Sir Winston Churchill alternatively than President Franklin Deleno Roosevelt pinch nan quote “a time that shall unrecorded successful infamy.”

Noting this error, I wondered what different incorrect “facts” were coming successful this letter. It only took maine a fewer minutes to spell onto nan Arlington National Cemetery website, wherever it was intelligibly explained that “No work members person been permanently removed from nan Notable Graves conception of our website.” Further: “All profiles of individuals from nan antecedently listed categories “African American History,’ ‘Hispanic American History’ and ‘Women’s History’ tin beryllium recovered successful different categories …”

I past went to Prominent Military Figures, past Tuskegee Airmen, and location was an full informational effort connected that topic. So these brave airmen (as but 1 an example), were successful truth not deleted from nan website astatine all.

Therefore, successful constituent of fact, location is nary bigotry aliases racism connected nan portion of nan cemetery’s website aliases nan Trump management directing changes to it, arsenic nan writer incorrectly stated. Further, his stated interest regarding what facts nan Trump management is apt to erase adjacent (based connected what they allegedly did to nan website) is besides debunked.

Chris Chiaffitelli

Laurel

Thank you!

I would for illustration to nonstop my sincere gratitude to our municipality road section and Superintendent Daniel Goodwin for their attraction to my requests concerning Laurelwood Drive. They are ever attentive and ever return my calls. Many thanks.

Barbara Kelling

Cutchogue

Manufactured bias

I work together pinch nan March 27 missive “Oath vs. ideology” that “no sane American wants a vulnerable criminal constituent who legally aliases illegally entered nan state to remain.” But cipher is being deported “under our law,” arsenic nan writer says, because Trump and his advisors are ignoring immoderate rule that doesn’t suit them. In a overmuch much polite way, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts said fundamentally nan aforesaid thing, slapping Trump’s wrist for intimidating a national judge proceeding an entreaty from Venezuelans astir to beryllium deported. The elemental underlying and highly different message: That’s not really our rule works.

Aside from ineligible issues, galore group excessively easy perceive “immigrant” and deliberation “criminal.” That is not new. During nan utmost anti-immigrant ambiance of nan 1920s, groups for illustration nan Ku Klux Klan, “mainstream” newspapers and scores of congressmen made nan aforesaid mistake. One group facing specified stigma were confederate Italians, who nativists insisted were opening nan doorway to nan Mafia. The truth is, nan overwhelming mostly of immigrants from each countries were mediocre and/or politically oppressed. They faced staggering hardships to get to America, wherever they worked their butts disconnected to get ahead. That is arsenic existent for today’s immigrants arsenic nan existent bias against them is manufactured.

William Sertl

Cutchogue

Defending nan Constitution

I americium a registered Democrat who spent 2016-20 giving President Trump in installments wherever I thought it due. For example, I’m a protectionist connected trade. I besides cognize and respect galore Trump voters; I, too, americium disgusted pinch Washington, D.C., and voted for large alteration erstwhile I could — I’m a Bernie Democrat. That said, I judge Trump is simply a unspeakable quality being and a bad president, and I voted against him twice.

In 2019 I joined nan Voting Rights Lab. I analyzed authorities laws and authorities astir each things voting: really to register, get a ballot, return a ballot aliases determine if nan ballot counts. In 2020, my squad tracked really COVID transformed predetermination law. Rules changed truthful group could ballot without worrying they would drawback a past often fatal disease. I monitored nan changes successful 17 states, including New York, Florida, Arizona and Wisconsin. I committedness you: The votes were accurately counted and Joe Biden won adjacent and square.

President Trump’s subsequent, very effective attacks connected our elections destroyed trust, damaged our state and changed really I saw him for nan overmuch worse. But I ne'er expected him to openly onslaught nan U.S. Constitution.

No, nan President of nan United States cannot unilaterally alteration law, overriding statutes pinch executive orders aliases withholding decently appropriated money. Congress makes laws. The president signs aliases vetoes them.

Yes, courts tin norm against presidents; that’s nan point: cheque and balance. The House of Representatives is threatening to defund courts aliases impeach judges because President Trump doesn’t for illustration their decisions. That’s nan Executive Branch telling nan Legislative Branch to adjacent aliases punish nan Judicial Branch. Where is nan cheque aliases balance?

However acold isolated we whitethorn beryllium connected different issues, please, let’s merge to take sides our Constitution.

Abigail Field

Cutchogue

Cruelty and lawlessness

In consequence to nan missive “Oath vs. Ideology” (March 27), I’d work together pinch immoderate of nan comments if they were accurate. President Trump and nan Republican management person been trumpeting ICE and their detention and deportation of “criminal” immigrants. Is that what they are doing?

In 2024, nether nan Biden administration, ICE deportations reached a 10-year high, which intends that much were deported successful 2024 than immoderate twelvemonth of nan first Trump administration. And during nan Obama administration, location were much deportations connected a yearly ground than during nan first Trump administration. I mention this only because it illustrates that deportations, beryllium they bully aliases bad, are not constricted to nan Trump management — and to opportunity that Biden did thing is conscionable wrong.

I work together that we want vulnerable criminals disconnected nan streets, and that should beryllium nan instruction for ICE. But now, nan Trump management is deporting easy targets including greenish paper holders, imperishable residents, and moreover visitors pinch insignificant violations. It’s not astir crime, it’s astir numbers.

Lastly, we sent expected Venezuelan members of Tren de Aragua to a gulag successful El Salvador. ICE later admitted that one-third were conscionable deportees. If these deportations were “found wrong our migration law,” why did a judge bid nan planes to return to nan U.S.? Why has nan management refused judges’ orders? You whitethorn not agree, but that is for nan courts to determine — not you, maine aliases nan Republican administration.

We are a state of laws. These group had nary time successful tribunal to conflict nan “charges,” nary notification to family aliases attorney; immoderate weren’t moreover Venezuelan. Now we are trying to deport ineligible residents because of their governmental views. Are we this sadistic and lawless a nation?

Gary Comorau

Cutchogue

Doing thing is not an option

In nan past national election, I didn’t ballot for a batch of things, including nan following:

I didn’t ballot for anyone to return [health care] distant from group whose only aesculapian sum is Medicaid.
I didn’t ballot for nan wealthiest state connected nan satellite to contradict USAID benefits truthful group who person almost thing will surely dice from hunger and diseases.
I didn’t ballot for an Attorney General who thinks she only represents Donald Trump successful his retribution rage and not nan group of nan United States.
I didn’t ballot for a Secretary of Defense who blurted retired onslaught plans connected different state complete a commercialized app, thereby putting members of nan subject astatine consequence of losing their lives.
I didn’t ballot for putting a vaccine skeptic astatine Health and Human Services while we person a bales problem that could go an epidemic.
I didn’t ballot to return thousands of authorities jobs from group who’ve done thing to merit being put retired connected nan thoroughfare pinch almost nary announcement astatine all.
I didn’t ballot for a vice president who travels nan world insulting our allies.
I didn’t ballot for a president who tin spend nan value of eggs to prosecute successful idiotic economical games while telling group who can’t spend nan eggs, “Don’t worry, nan symptom will only past a small while.”
I didn’t ballot for a feline who thinks he should beryllium entitled to a 3rd word contempt what nan Constitution says.
I didn’t ballot for anyone to return a perfectly sound post-COVID system and taxable it to a clear consequence of a recession because he thinks we should spell backmost to 1900 economical theories.
I didn’t ballot for anyone to ruin much than 80 years of relationship-building pinch different Western countries.
I didn’t ballot to onslaught our closest friends successful Canada.

For others who besides didn’t ballot for these things, we tin nary longer beryllium by and watch this feline and his cronies fiddle while they pain down nan country. Do something. Anything. Protest what’s going on. Send letters to nan paper. Demand that your Republican congressmen get immoderate courage and guidelines up to this feline alternatively of enabling him. Make judge you ballot successful nan mid-terms to get free of those enablers. But for heaven’s sake, don’t beryllium by and do nothing. That’s precisely really autocrats return over. And erstwhile populist is gone, it’s gone.

Michael Levy