State lawmakers must proactively protect citizens

How ironic that in the same breath that Vincent “where are the microphones” Candelora accuses state Democrats of gaslighting Connecticut residents that he continues on to accuse them of “defending criminal illegal aliens and librarians promoting sexualized content in schools.”

Seems like in the age old idiom, Mr. Candelora is taking on the role of the pot. Additionally, I wonder how his community members feel about his suggestion that we wait and see how Mr. Trump’s retributive, vindictive, sadistic executive orders play out before judging their results. Just what I want to see from our elected officials at the Capital, them sitting on their hands to wait and see what kind of damage these orders will have on our state’s economy and our citizens.

I implore you Mr Candelora, instead of offering up sound bites to the microphones, get off your hands and proactively protect the citizens of our state.

Matthew Mahoney, Berlin

History worth preserving on the UConn campus

There are times when the inherent value of yesteryear is worth saving.

It’s most appropriate of all places this is happening at the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs.

This regards preserving the old Yellow Dairy Barn. I started this crusade when the Courant did a piece on it in 2023 (“Uconn Aggie” has a soul for dilapidated barn on campus, 5/1/23.)

Through various grassroots efforts, enjoined by my fellow Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture classmates Jim Zeoli and Dave Green, we were grateful when UConn leadership decided the barn was worth preserving for possible future repurposing.

Many thanks to UConn President Radenka Maric for her vision and support for this cause and to UConn Foundation President Amy Yancey for the foresight to provide a donation portal (Yellow Barn Repair and Maintenance Fund, UConn Foundation) and for her vision and expertise to bring this effort to fruition.

In the end, the Yellow Dairy Barn had an amazing impact on the lives of so many. Not only us alumni that learned and worked there, but the hundreds of school kids, many from cities that never saw a baby calf before or tasted amazing UConn ice cream. I still remember all the yellow school buses from all over Connecticut parked there.

The barn is sacrosanct to the agrarian founding soul of the university. Please donate to help preserve it.

Robert T. Molleur, Virginia

Disgusted by those pardoned for assaulting police officers

Isn’t it wonderful that the “law and order” president has pardoned his J-6 “peaceful patriots” who were so unjustly convicted of assaulting police officers and vandalizing our nation’s Capital?

Spit on a cop, get a MAGA cap; kick, punch or beat an officer, earn a T-shirt and collector’s card; and for seditious conspiracy, it’s a specialty…Bible. Will others convicted of attacking police be receiving the same treatment?

I guess that’s why all those DEI policies have been rescinded.

Diane Christensen, Hebron