Letters to the editor: Help a fifth-grader in California learn about the Free State
California student wants your help learning about Maryland
To the editor:
Dear people of the great state of Maryland, greetings! My name is Sofia Gonzalez and I am a fifth-grade student at Salida Elementary School in Salida, California. We live in the Central Valley, located east of San Francisco.
This year, we are going to complete a state project. I picked Maryland. I am asking for any and all information from you about your great state to be sent to me. If you would, please send me any post cards, articles, maps, pictures, pins, pencils, stickers or pamphlets from Maryland.
My school address is:
Sofia GonzalezC/o Ms. Montgomery's classSalida Elementary School4519 Finney RoadSalida, CA 95368
I really appreciate your help in making my project a success! I am lucky to have and learn about an awesome state like Maryland.
Sofia GonzalezSalida, Calif.
Social Security Administration stuck in 1977
To the editor:
Nut sorter, sack repairer, egg sorter, dowel pin inspector, tube operator, and box taper.
According to a Washington Post editorial on Jan. 2, these are some of the jobs that you were advised to seek by the Social Security Administration when they denied your rights to your disability benefits. This list of jobs is based on labor market data last updated in 1977.
After spending more than $250 million in the last decade searching for a system that works, a new one has been built, but staff has not been instructed how to use it, and Acting Social Security Administration Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi declined to be interviewed.
This is just another example of an out of control federal agency. It has been said that we get the government that we deserve, but this is little comfort to those who can no longer work due to physical or mental disabilities.
William R. ReelWilliamsport
Moore's release of $3.5 million to support abortion care access could be better spent
To the editor:
One of newly inaugurated Gov. Wes Moore's first official acts was to release $69 million in funding held back by the previous administration.
Most of these funds will be used for various projects to enhance the quality of life in Maryland. Unfortunately, $3.5 million has been designated to support abortion care access, including clinical training of additional abortion care providers — funding which will deny life in its entirety to our most vulnerable citizens, the unborn.
If this money, instead, were to be redirected to providing physical, emotional and financial support to pregnant mothers in need, to foster care programs and easily accessible adoptive services for both donors and prospective parents unable biologically to bear children, perhaps there would be no need at all for additional abortion funding.
As an adoptive parent myself, I believe this suggestion is at least worthy of legislative consideration.
David KaplanHagerstown
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This article originally appeared on The Herald-Mail: Social Security Administration fails; MD abortion funding misspent
