Letters: Meet new postmaster, kudos to Robel, be careful Captain Janeway

Bloomington has new postmastesr

It is a great honor to serve Bloomington as your new postmaster. In my 26 years with the United States Postal Service, I have seen firsthand the role the Postal Service plays connecting neighbors and our community to the nation. Our post offices serve as a lifeline for our small businesses to reach customers no matter where they are.

Under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s leadership and Delivering For America, the Postal Service’s 10-year plan, we are maintaining universal six-day mail delivery and expanded seven-day package delivery, stabilizing our workforce, and spurring innovation to meet the needs of our modern customers.

From an incredibly successful 2021 holiday mail and shipping season to our current role delivering COVID-19 test kits, the Postal Service continues to provide a vital service for our nation and our community in Bloomington.

On behalf of the 650,000 men and women of the United States Postal Service, including the 202 employees in Bloomington, I thank you for continuing to support the Postal Service. Providing reliable mail delivery while strengthening the future of this treasured institution is our commitment to you.

Sincerely,

Mindy Pemberton, Postmaster, Bloomington

Proud of Robel's stance against Rokita

I could not be prouder of IU's former Provost Lauren Robel for following her conscience and taking action against our despicable Attorney General Todd Rokita.

Professor Robel has the court standing and the hard-earned professional credentials to be taken seriously in her challenge to Rokita's slimy Fox News assault on Dr. Caitlin Bernard.

Where does the debased Republican Party dig up these affronts to our ethics and morality? First they plug a serial woman groper named Curtis Hill into the AG slot. Then, after that repugnant offender is suspended by the Indiana Supreme Court, they dredge up this shameless political hack Rokita and anoint him as the enforcer of our state's legal machinery.

I'm sick to death of this GOP dumpster-diving. Their insane race-to-the-bottom quest for the most loathsome candidates has spawned Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the pathetic cluelessness of Herschel Walker. And now they've inflicted upon Indiana our own witless bottom-feeder Todd Rokita. This man is drooling all over himself to become our next governor. The Ministry of Propaganda known as Fox News will prop him up all the way.

It will take many more public-minded servants like Lauren Robel to save us from that fiasco.

Dennis Reardon, Bloomington

Do Indiana's lawmakers care about babies?

Indiana GOP — Do you care about the born as much as you do the unborn? Will you increase funds for pre-natal healthcare? Childcare assistance so single mothers can work rather than rely on public welfare? Job training so single mothers can afford to raise their child? Educational assistance so single mothers can get better jobs and be a role model for their children? Housing assistance so single mothers can live in a safe environment?

Are you aware that children born to mothers who do not want them are more likely to end up in the criminal justice system? Forcing women to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term is the cruelest form of punishment and a total invasion of their rights as an individual. You are aware that your stance on abortion is totally opposite of more than 60% of your constituents.

Jeff Kaden, Bloomington

Should we be concerned about Janeway visit?

It was recently announced that Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Kathryn Janeway in the NBC television series "Star Trek: Voyager," will be coming to visit the Janeway bust for an event on Oct. 23rd of this year.

I have always been against the Janeway statue but have decided to break my silence on this occasion. The bust is clearly a violation of the Temporal Prime Directive and will cause irreversible damage to the timeline if the future Janeway, who will be born in Bloomington in the year 2344, is allowed to see it and learn of the future adventures of her and her crew.

We know that Captain Janeway will be notorious for her disregard for the timeline, stating at one point "Temporal mechanics give me a headache." We cannot trust that she will learn about Voyager getting stranded in the Delta Quadrant and allow it to happen the way it is supposed to. This will affect literally billions of lives, and endanger the Federation's future success against the threat of the Borg Collective.

Do you want causality loops and paradoxes? Because this is how you get causality loops and paradoxes. Bring down with the Janeway statue, save the timeline.

Meghan Danzig, Bloomington

No place in representative democray

If the state can prohibit abortion, than the state can require abortion. Abortion legislation is a supreme example of governmental overreach and has no place in a representative democracy.

Judy Schroeder, Bloomington

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Letters to the editor published July 29, 2022