Lunch special?
This is just a suggestion. I’m not trying to tell people what to do, but why don’t the restaurants and cafes in Duluth offer a lunch special with pea soup and Cheerios for like $6.75?
Leo Strus, White Bear Lake
Masquerading as ‘news’
The article “Trump applies ‘blood bath’ rhetoric to immigration” (Pioneer Press Apr 3rd) has no business masquerading as “news”. The sprinkling of “baseless claims” and “without evidence” comments about President Trump’s statements are bad enough, but the article also trots out blatant lies about Trump with its “predicted a ‘blood bath for the country’” should he lose. Those comments were about the auto industry, not the whole country. Anyone with half a brain and having listened to the speech could see that.
News pages should contain reliable information and fact-based reporting. This article doesn’t even pretend to be impartial or factual. It follows the Democrat party line and lionizes one presidential aspirant, while treating the other as an extreme, violent charlatan.
I depend on my newspaper to supply reliable information on important issues and events. Please work a little harder to eliminate the spin and bias. Please dial back on the propaganda and bring me the news.
Don Lee, Eagan
Because of diversity
Reading the January-February edition of the Smithsonian magazine I read the following paragraph referring to saxophonist John Coltrane’s version of “My Favorite Things.” Pg 19. It is as follows.
“It’s a timeless song and quite possibly the most American recording in history: composed by the grandsons of German and Russian Jews, about an Austrian family fleeing the Nazis on thier way to America, played by an African-American genius in a vernacular American style, produced by one Turkish American for a record label owned by another Turkish American. The recording is not in or of the melting pot. It IS the melting pot.”
In a lecture I attended at the FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia, in 1993 the CIA Director Robert Gates made the statement that the strength of America was because of our diversity not despite it.
In Minnesota we are blessed with the large population of refugees of Vietnamese, Hmong, Somalis, Afghans, Tibetans, Mexicans and others from Central America. It is because of this diversity that Minnesota leads in almost all areas above the other 49 states.
David Arnold, Maplewood
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