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Citizen-only Census
Working for the Census 20 years in the past, I used to be appalled to study that there’s no requirement that you just have to be a citizen to finish the shape (“Dem census incentive,” Miranda Devine, Aug. 19).
The Census must be modified in order that solely US residents can be counted, not non-citizens. This will guarantee that solely US residents run our authorities.
Joann Mirone
Old Greenwich, Conn.
Blame Murphy
The Post’s Aug. 17 editorial “Dem’s Electric Disaster” rightly blames “Democrats’ bungled energy policies” for “exploding utility bills” (Editorial, Aug. 17). But it was off-base to charge that “GOP Gov. Chris Christie shares in the blame for the Garden State’s madness.”
In truth, underneath our administration, New Jersey expanded natural fuel pipeline and plant capability and made the state electrical energy self-sufficient by 2016 for the primary time in state historical past.
Gov. Phil Murphy’s “climate” hyper-focus — resembling a four-year legal battle to kill the PennEast Pipeline, which our administration supported — has deterred new baseload energy era, serving to create the disaster New Jersey ratepayers now face.
Also: Oyster Creek was the second oldest nuclear energy plant within the US when it closed, and proprietor Exelon had agreed with our administration to not close it earlier than 2019; our plan to exchange that energy included the PennEast pipeline and further natural fuel era.
The Murphy administration went in a fully reverse direction, adopting methods to succeed in clean-energy and emission-reductions objectives, with no focus in any respect on shopper prices or baseload energy for the state.
New Jersey was vitality self-sufficient after we left workplace, with cheap charges and elevated reliability. The Murphy administration broke what we fixed.
Former Gov. Chris Christie & Former NJDEP Commissioner Robert Martin
Morristown, NJ
Faux ‘feels like’
I cherished Anthony Watts’ article on the overuse of “feels like” temperatures (“Making Summer feel ‘Real’ Worse,” Aug. 18).
Weather was once reported with simple details — temperature, humidity, wind velocity. Now it’s turn into exaggerated and sensational. Watts is correct: It’s time to get back to factual reporting.
Gina Lorenzo
Ramsey, NJ
SATC’s flop ending
Kirsten Fleming’s column on the notorious conclusion of the “Sex and the City” sequel isn’t the primary I’ve learn to precise dismay and confusion on the sordid finish of this story (“Legacy is in the crapper,” Aug. 16).
How would any rational individual count on it to finish? The show from its inception was based mostly on the concept that girls can objectify and use males (as they’ve too usually been used previously) and count on a comfortable ending.
It seems a girl doesn’t “need a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” however reasonably males and girls had been created to enrich and full one another within the context of monogamous marriage. No surprise Carrie’s life ends up within the toilet.
Stephen Quinn
Huntington Beach, Calif.
Deadly license folly
Once again, there may be a lot hand-wringing on the completely avoidable death of three American residents in Florida attributable to an unlawful alien (“ ‘Killer’ driver hauled back to Fla. from Calif.,” Aug. 22).
He was given a full business drivers license by the state of California and Washington state, regardless that he wasn’t capable of learn the bulk of freeway indicators in a take a look at. Something related has occurred earlier than. It will occur again, and the nation learns nothing.
Angela Lennox-Kay,
Hackettstown, NJ
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