Correction: In last week’s Carbondale Report, it was stated that Carbondale applied for tax increment financing from the Colorado Housing Finance Authority (CHFA). Carbondale applied for tax credit financing, but CHFA does not offer increment financing.
Best buds
As a former special educator in the Roaring Fork Valley, I am writing to express my excitement around a beautiful event that happened this past weekend — The Best Buddies Friendship Walk. This was the first Friendship Walk in our valley, which is a huge step in encouraging and promoting inclusivity within our community. It was one of the most inspiring events I have attended in the Roaring Fork Valley and I am optimistic that we can continue to bridge the gap by providing similar inclusive events in the near future. A HUGE thank-you to everyone that made this event possible. It was remarkable!
Allison Schneider
Aspen
MANana no more
Machismo rules in Mexico, right? The ultimate patriarchy. So why in last Sunday’s national election there were two females running for president? In this country we can’t even get a woman nominated.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is an academic who represents the Morena Party, the party of the current president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Her grandparents escaped the holocaust. Sheinbaum’s opponent, Xochiti Galvez Ruiz, is an engineer and entrepreneur allied with the National Action Party.
Both have been mayors of major cities, Mexico City for Sheinbaum and Miguel Hidalgo, a borough of Mexico City, for Galvez, but neither is a full-time politician. They’re both 61 years old, considerably younger than America’s presidential candidates.
Sheinbaum and Galvez have championed women’s causes, vehemently opposed to the fact there are limited legal consequences for femicide in Mexico. According to the United Nations, up to 10 women per day are killed by intimate partners or family members. In 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court declared that penalizing abortion is unconstitutional. Abortion has been legal in Mexico City since 2007.
We Yanquis tend to look down our nose at Mexico as an inferior banana republic. Perhaps we should be looking to our neighbors to the south as a positive example of inclusion.
Fred Malo Jr.
Carbondale
Stop littering
Please stop littering because we want the Earth to look good and not dry. We want more decomposers. Decomposers are living things that help the soil. Trash makes it hard for decomposers. Everywhere we can, keep the Earth clean! People from Carbondale can send a letter to family and others they don’t know to follow the rules of the Town of Carbonade and also Carbondale Middle School and other schools, too. We want to take care of our world so that we can improve our jobs and people can work by cleaning the road and making it better for humans.
Genesis Perez
Carbondale
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