May 11 Letters to the editor

Editor’s note: These letters and guest column are in response to two Tim Steller columns — “Welcome, Caterpillar, to a state that won’t help kids” (May 4) and “Ducey has no real answers for not pushing KidsCare” (May 6).

Not led like a moth to the flame

Tim Steller’s commentary on the lack of care for kids by Arizona legislators was the best thing I read last week. Thank you for pointing out the moths in this Caterpillar news.

TJ McGreevy

Northeast side

Finding a way

to rain

on the parade

What a horrible way to turn positive news into negative news.

Tim Steller could have picked another angle. Very dismayed at his “bad press” welcome to Caterpillar to our community.

Mark Irvin

Midtown

Ducey’s shift on kids’ health no coincidence

It’s not a coincidence that just two days after Tim Steller’s eloquent column on the incomprehensibility of Gov. Doug Ducey’s indifference toward no-cost-to-us health care for kids that the governor decided to support it.

Steller’s questions to him the same day didn’t hurt, either.

The governor told him the state budget already provided for kids. Steller told him the state budget isn’t affected. To which our governor responded that the state budget was set for the year but that new ideas were always welcome.

Hahahahahahah. Nicely said, Governor Bush. It isn’t new and, for the sixth time, it isn’t in the budget. (Somebody’s been too focused on catching freeway shooters instead of getting our kids a doctor, or a teacher.) His response showed him as dumb or uncaring, or both.

Steller’s effort saved kids’ lives today. Somebody should thank him.

Mike Morrison

Midtown

Keeping watch over

the extreme

right in AZ

Thank goodness for Tim Steller. He tells it like it is.

The legislative opposition to KidsCare in Arizona was outrageous.

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This is evidenced by the fact that Arizona was the only state in the country to deny free health insurance coverage to the children of the working poor.

Steller was right to point this out.

Keep up the good work, Tim, bringing to light the errors in positions taken by the extreme right wing in Arizona.

Susan Blaney

Midtown

The ABCs of accomplishing change

Kid-Scare went away and we got KidsCare back thanks to the demands of moderate Republicans in the state Legislature, and in no small measure to the excellent “letter” to Caterpillar from Star columnist Tim Steller.

When concerned folks speak out and journalists address an issue with courage and strong language there’s no end to what can be accomplished.

Why, it’s almost as simple as 1, 2, 3! My daughter is considering a move, and this news will inform her decision.

Emily Hilliard

Midtown

Turning the lights from green to red

I was moved this morning to tell Tim Steller how much I enjoyed his letter to Caterpillar employees.

He was right on target by giving them a heads-up. We get what we tolerate and we continue tolerating a self-serving Legislature with misaligned priorities. Keep up the good work.

Ron Andrea

SaddleBrooke

Out of the frying pan into the desert

Just had to take a moment to thank you for your column, which keeps me aware of the nonsense in the Arizona House.

We moved here for the weather and Tucson, not the politics.

Tucson is a compassionate, lively city. I hope Caterpillar will discover that to be true. I have often wondered if this state is violating our federal rights, passing bills not allowing municipalities to follow federal laws.

And then there is keeping reporters out of the House and Senate! How far backward can we go?

We still love Tucson and will stay. Of course we did leave North Carolina.

CathyWayand

Oro Valley