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To the editor: Instead of providing hard cash, in 2019, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature gave the MTA congestion pricing to help pay for the $51 billion 2020-2024 five-year …

Dumb is forever

To the editor: The fact that the Miss America and Miss World pageants still ban mothers from competing shows the durability of stupidity (" NYC woman challenges pageants' rule banning mothers from …

For the undecided

To the editor: If one of your lame excuses for being undecided who to vote for president of the U.S. is you don’t know enough about Kamala Harris, then you either have been living under a rock, not …

Fake news

To the editor: With the Trump-Vance campaign lies regarding Haitian immigrants debunked, it is time to call out their other false claims — that Republicans handle the economy and crime …

Unfit

To the editor: Trump’s latest gaffe: Confusing Alaska’s ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) with Afghanistan’s Bagram (a military base). Trump said he got so much money from energy (oil) …

No confidence

To the editor: Joseph Cannisi calls it "sad" that tens of millions of Americans will vote for Donald Trump. What is "sad" about it? This is the political process in this country. People vote for the …

Harris vacillates

To the editor: Kamala Harris finds joy in many things.   There are a significant number of Americans, however, who find no joy in the Biden-Harris administration’s unconditional military, …

Loyal to a fault

To the editor: Now that NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban has resigned, the question will be what other heads in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will be lopped off in the wake of the …

Pardon these fibs

To the editor: Projection is a psychological term that describes a person attributing his or her faults to someone else. When Donald Trump claimed that Kamala Harris lied throughout the debate, he …

Life imitates art

To the editor:  Given Donald Trump’s obsession with fictional characters such as Hannibal Lecter, I wondered which one best described his performance at the Sept. 10 debate. Two immediately …

A garbage plan

To the editor: Mayor Adams, and his Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch are taking advantage of NYC residents living in buildings of one to nine units. They are imposing an unreasonable requirement …

Something rotten

To the editor: Eric Adams has character flaws that have negatively impacted his performance as mayor.: his use of race to buttress his positions, and his ethically challenged behavior as well as the …

No solace

0913Letter_Bullaro No solace On Sept. 4, there was yet another mass shooting in America when a 14-year-old student with an AR-15 assault rifle killed two students and two teachers at a Georgia high …

March of folly

To the editor: In “A Night at the Opera” Chico Marx tells Groucho he doesn’t believe in the “Sanity Clause.”  From the gems that come out of the mouths of Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and …

Swindler in chief

To the editor: It finally happened.  After roughly 46 months of lying, stoking anger and division, Donald Trump admitted he lost the 2020 election “by a whisker” during a 45-minute podcast …

A vote for Medicare

To the editor: Last week’s issue of The Chief included inspiring commemorative Labor Day advertisements from various unions. One proclaimed: “All Workers. Many Voices. One Fight.” Another …

Slow on EMS pay

To the editor:  This is in response to Helen Northmore regarding the lack of desirable remuneration. I would like to stipulate that city officials as far back as 1978 have not done the right …

Coin operated

To the editor: Last week marked the 55th Anniversary of NYC Transit bus drivers no longer having to use a coin collector to make change for riders. Aug. 31st, 1969, was the first day that bus riders …

Social insecurity

To the editor: A brief explanation in regard to Social Security and socialism. A Social Security check is not a socialist program. If it were a socialist program, the amount that every individual …

The happiness quotient

To the editor:  What do residents of Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and the Netherlands have in common? Year after year, they rank among the happiest people in the world based upon data …

Original migrants

To the editor: A recent letter writer critical of the Democratic Party cited crime as among the reasons he would not be voting for Kamala Harris in November (“ Chicanery ,” Sept. 30). The most …

Selective criteria

To the editor: The recent article by "City Workers for Palestine" (“ Unions, city pension board failing workers’ moral call ,” The Chief, Aug. 16) requires rebuttal. The authors are entitled to …

Chicanery

To the editor: As a veteran I'm disturbed by what Donald Trump said about the Medal of Honor and the recipients. Unfortunately, most recipients are awarded posthumously. I also recall what he said …

Paying their way

To the editor: In Fiscal Year 2022, when New York City negotiated its now-expired contract with the FDNY EMS, city taxpayers paid a fraction more than 5 percent of the total cost to operate the FDNY …

Funky logic

To the editor: Robert Sica's "Doublespeak" should be called "Rhetoricspeak." I could paraphrase George Kennedy from "Cahill, United States Marshall" to describe my search for facts — "I looked but …

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