Please, just be nice to workers

A major construction project underway involves I-25 between Fillmore and Garden of the Gods and involves the Sinton Trail where it crosses under the highway. CDOT has hired flagmen to assist bikers and pedestrians through the closure.

We are hearing reports that inconvenienced Sinton Trail users are verbally abusing the flagmen and have even threatened violence. This is not OK. Trail advocates working with CDOT went to great lengths to devise a detour and plan to accommodate trail users during construction. The flaggers are just doing their jobs, trying to keep users and workers safe.

If the abuse continues, we understand the trail could be closed for the duration of the project — two years! No one wants that. Please respect the flagmen and just be nice.

Susan Davies

Trails and Open Space Coalition

Hypocritical take on life, leadership

To Commissioner Carrie Geitner and the rest of the gang so sadly lacking love, leadership, caring and responsibility for humanity: Who are you and who are we who put you in office to lead our community? You are an embarrassment, and a shameful portrayal of what leadership looks like. Can we please get back to making our community, and our world, a place where people are loved and accepted and supported?

Economics and politics are not lost on me, so I get there is more to this than spoken words. Do your job Commissioner Geitner, and elected officials. Shame, shame, shame on you for your hypocritical take on life and leadership. Do you really think you are listening to the community you supposedly represent, or are you just on display for your beliefs and wants? You are a sad lot. And you make me sad. Hopefully, you will get on board and do your job. But I doubt that is possible. You care only about yourself. So sad.

Stacy Poore

Colorado Springs

Springs history, Cronin-Loevy style

When people want to learn about the history of Colorado Springs and its individual neighborhoods, one need only to start with the Gazette and locate Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy, retired Colorado College professors, who continue to teach us the value of preserving our history.

In years past, they’ve handily recalled and researched our historic neighborhoods, along with the richness each offers, to make Colorado Springs the city we know, or at least the one we once knew. The value of holding tight to our history is evident.

Cronin and Loevy help residents feel proud to live in the neighborhoods they do by taking the time to remember individuals and events that form each hamlet.

Their Sunday piece about Skyway encompassed not only my neighborhood of 40 years, but many of the surrounding areas that make this region the wealth of diversity it is, including the county’s Poor Farm where the potter’s field, Pauper’s Cemetery, still exists.

What is Philadelphia without the Liberty Bell? What is upstate New York without Niagara Falls? And what is Colorado Springs without Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy?

Our founding father, William Jackson Palmer, would be one proud uncle knowing these gems.

Leigh Westin

Colorado Springs

Jews and Christians are natural allies

I read Alexander Nazaryan’s opinion with great interest. Antisemitism and Anti-Christian hatred appear to be clearly on the rise, particularly in leftist dominated communities and institutions. I am a conservative Christian who works with Jews and Christians on a daily basis. I have never met a conservative antisemitic person.

In fact, the Christians I know revere the Jewish people as God’s chosen people to reveal himself to the world. Folks like me generally see the Jewish heroes of the Bible like Moses, King David and King Solomon as our spiritual “Founding Fathers”. Facism is a leftist philosophy. Nazism is a leftist ideology.

The idea that antisemitism is from the right is a leftist lie. The Christian right in general believe that liberty, freedom, a small, nonintrusive government and freedom of expression and religion are foundational. This means all religions, including Judaism. We believe God and his Commandments. In truth, Christianity is committed to following the Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ. The left is racist and antisemitic.

They fought the Civil War to maintain slavery, created Jim Crow laws, fought the Civil Rights Act, placed abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods and work to get minority peoples trapped on the welfare plantation. They still block school choice, raise taxes and fail to control crime in minority neighborhoods. As increasing numbers of minorities escape the welfare plantation, they open the border to bring in more. Why? One word, power. They want to be like God.

The reason they are antisemitic and anti-Christian is that they oppose God. Jews and Christians who follow the one true God will always be at odds with those who want to be like God. If you don’t believe me then read “Rules for Radicals.” Much antisemitism is actually anti-God philosophy. Jews and Christians are natural allies.

Brian Artzberger

Colorado Springs

Hatred for people of faith

Re: The letter on Jan. 31 “Attitudes toward faith must change”. I have to say the bigotry expressed in that hateful diatribe was astonishing. Faith in God must be treated with derision, contempt, mockery and ridicule? Is he serious? That statement brings to mind visions of jackboots, white hoods and burning churches among other things.

First the antisemitism, now the Christians. Things are certainly moving quickly toward a sentiment of hatred for people of faith. He might want to crack open the Bible and pay special attention to the red lettered text. I believe he would find some clarity there.

His comments also have a certain odor of voter suppression by intimidation with his way of “determining truth”. However, he is right about one thing. American democracy hangs by a thread ,and his reprehensible letter feeds that. God bless America!

Dori Lundgren

Colorado Springs

A cyclist rides along the Sinton Trail during the first adaptive cycling ride of the season.

THE GAZETTE FILE