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An uplifting story
Thank you for that beautiful article outlining twins Bob and Dick Gibbs. As we embark on a week of celebration of our 250th birthday/anniversary, it was very uplifting of two men who served our country with great pride and dignity. I am also an identical twin whose life with her twin sister has taken us in very different directions, with us thousands of miles apart for decades, so it warmed my heart to see Bob and Dick now sharing their 3 p.m. cocktail daily.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your service to our country and thank you Gazette for a very uplifting story of service and family. In our turbulent times, it is nice to see a “feel good” story.
Trish Beyer
Colorado Springs
What are we waiting for?
A neighbor down the street in my Cragmor neighborhood is installing solar this week, and as I watched the workers crawl across the rooftop, I thought about how lucky they were to be working on one of our few cloudy days. While Colorado doesn’t truly get the famously boasted “300 days of sun” every year, the majority of our days (about 68%) are sunny. My neighbors’ roof isn’t large—our 1960s houses don’t quite reach the proportions of the “Little London” Old North End to the south or the McMansions further east and north—but their half dozen panels got me thinking about other roof space in the city, especially as I read coverage of CS Utilities CEO Travas Deal in this week’s Gazette.
Many other local news outlets highlighted his comments about potential for going nuclear to meet future energy needs, generating click-worthy headlines (I’ve also seen “The China Syndrome”—my dad has a soft spot for Jane Fonda—so I understand that focus), but I was drawn to Deal’s emphasis on building the city’s portfolio of renewables to meet our booming energy needs. Solar is cheaper than ever and more efficient, and with our 250+ days of sun a year, I wonder why we haven’t embraced this resource more fully. We can dream of a nuclear plant a decade or more away, but our energy needs are clear and present and the sun seems abundant and more intense with every passing day—why not seize it?
Just over the hill from us are the shops at University Village, the largest of which is Costco, the vast warehouse-club rooftops visible from vistas of Austin Bluffs and Pulpit Rock; I wonder how many more solar panels could fit atop Costco and Lowe’s than my neighbors’ house and that’s just in the single shopping center—I can’t imagine what might fit atop the suburban shopping sprawls across Interquest or up and down Powers Blvd. Certainly any Colorado big-box store should have its own solar panels to make themselves at least power neutral and power positive at best. All warehouse-sized buildings could either sell the power to the city or lease the rooftops to the city for solar space. The city, on most sunny days, could sell extra power to our neighboring communities, or just rest the infrastructure by making every store’s interior lighting independent from the strain of our ever-growing residential needs.
Energy prices are high and seem primed to remain so, our population is set to increase as more and more people flock to the Pikes Peak region, and the realities of our changed climate are here and now—if we’re not seeking creative and aggressive solutions to plan for a robust energy future in Colorado Springs now, what are we waiting for? I like seeing that Deal and CSU are planning for the future, but I wonder, in this present moment, what if the city just covered Costco in solar panels? My neighbors are doing it, but their rooftop doesn’t come in bulk.
Pierce Gillard
Colorado Springs
Stop Trump from what?
The nauseating political commercials just keep coming. Michael Bennet says he will use every tool available to stop Donald Trump. Phil Weiser and Jena Griswold have similar messages. But, what are they stopping him from doing.
Trump is trying to fix the mess at the border that Sleepy Joe Biden created. So stopping Trump will mean more open borders and more criminals entering the country. Trump is trying to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, something that no president has been able to do for 47 years.
Allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon will put the entire world at risk of annihilation, by the worlds leading terrorist nation, who have no regard for human life as long as it serves their demented Islamic radicalism. Even if it means the destruction of their own country. Trump is trying to make America safe and where he has attacked the crime problem, it is safe. He is trying to make America more prosperous and one only needs to look at the historic rise in the stock market. Trump is trying to stop the fraud that is perpetrated on innocent American tax payers. He wants to make Americans proud of their country as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of this great country.
So, why are our Colorado politicians so against him. Imagine how nice it would be if our state leadership supported what Trump is doing. Crime would decrease, ICE would be allowed to work with local law enforcement instead of against them to remove criminals here illegally. The border would be secure. Iran would not get a nuclear weapon, the world would be safer. Big cities would be safe as is the case in Washington DC. American citizens would have to prove citizenship to vote, which the majority of Americans support. Democrats don’t! Being anti-Trump and spending time constantly suing him and opposing him on virtually everything does nothing for the citizens of Colorado. So that begs the question: stop Trump from what?
Barry S. Oswell, LtCol, USAF (ret)
Colorado Springs
Dividing the nation
Columnists Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy correctly note that “Our popular culture provides countless examples of audiences cheering on unsavory, lawbreaking characters, most of whom are on power trips of some kind.”
What they did not include was Donald Trump’s campaign and entire life was based on lies and hatred. If he did not lie, he would not have been the candidate he was. He never took responsibility for any of his actions or misdeeds-remember, he is a convicted felon. His hatred of groups and people appealed to the basest of our human emotions. No president has ever based their candidacy so strongly on the dehumanization of entire groups-those from Solalia were “garbage”-and the denunciation of individual people-who he treated as enemies of our country-not opponents in our democracy.
His campaign succeeded to a very great degree by dividing us as a nation. We will see if this democracy can survive him.
James Stolz
Coloreado Springs
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