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Virtue signaling: City council costs residents $300K

Re: “City Council rejects $25M contract with Suncor,” May 7 news story

How arrogant and misguided is Councilwoman Shontel Lewis who said she would vote no on the asphalt contract because Suncor is a major contributor to ongoing environmental justice problems in North Denver. As if this has anything to do with getting our roads paved for a reasonable price.

The Commerce City refinery will make asphalt. It is what they do. Asphalt is a (small) percentage of every crude oil barrel. The crude oil barrel also includes other refinery products such as gasoline and jet fuel. Suncor’s crude oil comes from the tar sands in Canada, which are heavy oils and have higher residue (asphalt), and the local Denver-Julesburg Basin crude, which is a sweet, honey-like domestic crude. So, to get the valuable products like gasoline and jet fuel, the refinery will make asphalt.

Now, however, the residents of Denver get to pay an additional $300,000 over the life of the contract for the Denver City Council’s arrogance.

Bill Koch, Broomfield

The alarming threat of Medicaid cuts

Cutting Medicaid benefits for millions of Americans who are disabled, retired, caregivers, between jobs, or working but not making enough to afford other health care is cruel and unnecessary. It is not about saving money but increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. Many Americans will die or become homeless because of these cuts.

We need to keep opposing these attacks on our safety-net programs as loudly as we can.

Cheryl Kasson, Denver

To some of us just-getting-by families, it’s just another push down. Funding is cut to the people who need it the most. They rely on it to stay alive. Party affiliation means nothing when it comes to a cry for help from citizens. We’d all like to enjoy our lives and care for our children without additional burden.

This program should never be tampered with until you come up with something that would curb hospital costs and provide coverage that benefits humans equally.

Robert Auerbach, Centennial

Keep resources available to nurture our young talent

Re: “CU reporting that 54 research awards have been terminated or been halted,” May 8 news story

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With great alarm, I read the May 2025 CU report that 54 research awards have been terminated or halted. America’s young adults, who are striving to develop careers and families for our future, are facing the greatest economic challenge in decades. Especially brutal are the thousands of DOGE and Trump-era cuts to tuition assistance and the slashing of internships and research grants in the science, medical and engineering fields.

I have encountered dozens of people who have informed me of canceled government funding sources that are demolishing career prospects for many who do not have family or other monetary safety nets.

Reaching back to the early 1970s, had I not had an engineering college co-op program job with U.S. Air Force at Wright Patterson Air Force Base providing funds for tuition and even my basic living needs, my long engineering career in nuclear and aerospace might well have been extinguished. Let’s get more tax contributions from the ultra-rich and not smash the formation of young talent for our future.

Ronald L. Puening, Centennial

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