Re: the June 5 guest opinion "El Jefe, jaguars before him came of age at Tucson's doorstep."
How many times do we have to read articles from environmentalists complaining about the Rosemont mine. The mine is only a tiny fraction of the area the animal wanders. I worked an open pit copper mine in the 1970s driving a water truck and we had a mountain lion that would wander down the haul roads and drink out of the water puddles left over after filling my truck.
Tucson is the fifth poorest city in the country and we need decent paying jobs to raise our families. Pima County needs the money to repave the roads, pay the deputy sheriffs and waste on a space port. Words like toxic waste, gaping hole and industrial wasteland rev up the wackos, but the public is tired of wasting of our tax dollars on infinitely studying the same tired arguments. Let them move on to trying to destroy the home-building project in Benson.
James Broome
Vail
