We must protect early childhood education
I am unsure how to go about properly addressing the decisions the president is making concerning education, including and especially the Head Start Program. Not only am I a concerned natural born citizen, I am also an early childhood education student, taking classes at Aims Community College in Greeley. And, I am learning how important education, especially early childhood education, is in order to become a more productive member of society.
With programs like the Head Start program, children and families are given opportunities to help them overcome and thrive in the most adverse situations. The decision this president is making against education policies and funding is damaging on a level that as an Amercian citizen, I know other branches of this government have the authority to intercede. The fact that they have not done so stands to question their integrity and commitment to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens.
I am asking for any assistance in getting to the proper authorities/people to address this president’s abusive use of the executive decision-making power that the president of the United States has and the need to remove it from him, President Trump.
Natesha Oliver, Greeley
What President Trump has liberated you from
President Trump declared April 2, 2025, as Liberation Day. So let’s contemplate how we are being liberated:
All Americans have been liberated from lower prices.
All 401(k) plans have been liberated from needless value.
Investors have been liberated from their growth and profits.
America has been liberated from its friends and allies.
Tens of thousands of employees, both government and private, have been liberated from their jobs.
Is this what you voted for? Or are you just going to accept the new reality? All you have to do is close your eyes.
Andrew T. Morehead, Eaton
Gabe Evans town hall was a disappointment
I was deeply disappointed in Congressman Gabe Evans’s “telephone town hall,” if one could call it that. I and several people I know signed up for the event and never received a call. What I know of the event had to come from the Tribune’s coverage on April 4.
Equally disappointing, Evans’s claim, in the Tribune’s words, that “the committee and other lawmakers don’t want to cut Medicaid funding” is not technically a lie but is substantively extremely deceiving. The recent budget plan, adopted Feb, 25, doesn’t cut Medicaid by name but rather directs the committee that manages Medicaid (the “House Energy and Commerce Committee”) to cut $880 billion from its budget. Medicaid accounts for 93% of the committee’s budget available for cuts (Medicare has, so far, been maintained). All of the other available programs the committee oversees cost it $381 billion, leaving an additional $500 billion in cuts and only Medicaid on the table. It is mathematically impossible for the committee to cut the amount the budget requires without deep cuts to Medicaid. Thus the difference between cutting Medicaid and cutting budget for the committee that oversees Medicaid is a bogus distinction that makes absolutely no difference.
At least one in five residents of Weld County relies on Medicaid for their health care, and 40% of recipients are children. Supporters of the recent budget should tell us the truth about whose lives they don’t seem to care about: the fifth of Weld County whose health care coverage they’ve already slashed.
Chris Talbot, Greeley
Say no to this $1 billion boondoggle
What is clear about the proposed Cascadia project on the west side of Greeley?
Only a few people will benefit from the project. Meanwhile, these people are asking taxpayers, their children, and their grandchildren to be on the hook if the project goes wrong. If the project is so great, why can’t the developers themselves take all of the risks? Or, is there a different set of rules for rich developers (as opposed to regular, hard working people)?
Few of the Greeley taxpayers will be able to afford to utilize the benefits of the project. One of the slides from the work session at the Greeley City Council shows that tickets for a minor league hockey game will be $100 a pop; the hotels are almost $300/night. Meanwhile, the jobs ostensibly generated are not even close to being able to support a family.
While we, the people, get a lecture on “the market,” developers get oodles of corporate welfare, and taxpayers get left holding the bag. Consider what happened to the 1stBank Center in Broomfield (now torn down).
Please contact the Greeley City Council ([email protected]) to tell them, not no but hell no to this total boondoggle. Even better, show up at the Greeley City Council meeting at 6 p.m. April 15.
Jeri D. Shepherd, Greeley
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