Letters to the Editor: Time change positives outweigh the negatives

In defense of Daylight Saving Time,

positives outweigh the negatives

I figured I needed to defend our country's Daylight Saving Time regimen after reading all the complaints about it.

First, I like that in spring and summer, the days last longer. Second, to keep it year-round means taking your kids to school in the dark. As any parent can tell you, it is hard enough getting the kids awake and going in the mornings, worse so when it is dark, . Third, it is just an hour. How many of us have traveled to another time zone? Do you make such a big deal about the time change, or only when you change your time at home?

Doing it early Sunday morning is the best time to cause the least disturbance to our schedules. Come on folks, a mere one hour twice a year is not that big of a deal. The positives outweigh the negatives.

Bob Simpson, Laredo

Cruz's joking aside, secession

would be a disaster for Texas

Junior U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz seems to be auditioning for "Saturday Night Live."

First, he mocks Big Bird for encouraging children to get vaccinated against coronavirus, then he humors young naïve Republicans by suggesting Texas ought to secede.

Doing so would be an economic disaster for Bell and Coryell counties. It would inevitably mean saying adios to Fort Hood and Darnall Army Hospital; Temple's Olin E. Teague Veterans Health Center and the Texas A&M medical school affiliated with it; the Army Corps of Engineers' maintenance of Belton and Stillhouse Hollow lakes; and drastic loss of clientele for Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport and Central Texas College.

None of this is a laughing matter.

George Aldridge, Belton

Banned books should be all

the incentive children need

I want to put this message out for all of the schoolchildren who may see their school libraries gutted.

Banned books are the best books.

If the government wants to keep you from reading something, that should be all the incentive you need to seek it out. Your school library is not the only library available to you. Look in the public library in your hometown. If you can't find it there, look online. Books are often available in electronic formats, and there are networks that let you borrow them for free.

Do not let the government tell you what to read.

Kevin Hicks, Lakeway

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Austin American-Statesman Letters to the Editor: Nov. 17, 2021