Three responses in one letter

Responding to all three letters to the editor published on Sept. 26.

To Anna Glass, The Evergreen State College’s reputation is toast. I don’t think it can be fixed. The so-called broadmindedness of staff, faculty, and students is really narrow-mindedness. This has been suspected for 30 years, and has been proven true these last few years culminating in 2017. This year it displayed the result of longstanding TESC policies and TESC group-think.

To Subir Mukerjee, I agree that openness by politicians is best. You want to open the legislative process to the public; I want to open labor negotiations between the governor and the state labor unions to the public. I want to observe as the governor negotiates a labor contract with state labor unions; you want to observe the legislature as it creates a new budget. So, politicians, how about we do both? The legislature opens its political doors to observation by taxpayers of the budgetary process and the governor opens his political door to observation by taxpayers of labor negotiations.

To Charlie Stephens, climate change exists and has for millions of years. Climate change, like earthquakes or volcanoes, is a naturally occurring phenomenon. We should prepare for the event rather than try to prevent the natural occurrence of climate change. Create tougher building codes and sea walls. Allow no construction within future flood zones. Washington state ignores our need to prepare for earthquakes, but tries to prevent rather than prepare for climate change. Why? Politics!

This story was originally published October 17, 2017 at 3:55 PM with the headline "Three responses in one letter."