Spirit of Susan B. Anthony
At 78, I am a long way from my grade school days. For the record, I am still a kid at heart. I remember one activity, that of connecting dots to discover a picture. Dear reader, let me offer you a set of dots to connect and magnify the obvious: January 1974; January 2015; March 2016; Nov. 8, 2016; Jan. 31, 2017; Oct. 6, 2018; Sept. 26, 2020; and Jan. 24, 2022.
Let me help you, dear reader, by attaching names to the eight dates: 1974 — Roe vs Wade, 2015 — Mitch McConnell named senate majority leader; 2016 — Donald Trump elected president; 2017 — Obama nominates Eric Garland; 2017 — Neil Gorshich named to U.S. Supreme Court; 2018 — Bret Kavanah named to U.S. Supreme Court; 2020 — Amy Coney Barrett named U.S. Supreme Court; 2022 — Roe vs, Wade overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The picture in this case is clear and explains how women’s rights to control their health care decisions were stolen.
Children in grades K-2 are most likely connecting dots to discover the pictures they make. Fortunately, there are new dots on the page of America where abortion is legal: Kansas, Ohio, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont — currently 21 states and the District of Columbia. As more dots appear and are connected it is obvious that women demand “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” In the 2024 election, their energetic support of human rights coupled with furious opposition to those who threaten democracy will save this county from tyranny.
Stan Smith
Viola
‘Solution’ will solve nothing
Thanks to Steve McGehee for his excellent, informative column (Daily News, Dec. 29) on the Downtown Pullman Project.
Pullman needs to wake up and recognize the fundamental problem is geography, and that putting millions of dollars worth of lipstick on a pig won’t turn it into a seductive Playboy model.
As a cardiologist would look at Pullman’s traffic problem, Main Street and Grand Avenue and the highways are seriously hardened arteries full of vehicular blood clots choking the life out of downtown and businesses north and south.
The downtown proposal calls for the calamitous exacerbation of downtown traffic clots while turning Main into a pedestrian plaza.
A few years ago, our city parents decided the solution to downtown problems was diagonal parking. That didn’t last long. Fortunately, reverting to parallel parking didn’t come with a $1 million price tag. But the new fantastical “solution” will be truly disastrous if implemented.
Terence L. Day
Pullman
