Letter: Tribune commentaries tell it like it is
FILE - This April 20, 2016, file photo shows copies of The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper in Salt Lake City. The Tribune newsroom takes up one floor of the building that bears its name, overlooking snow-capped mountains and the arena where the Utah Jazz play. Once a Digital First property that dealt with staff reductions and feared closure, the paper was sold to a prominent local family in 2016. Since then, its reporters received their first raise in a decade and won a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
It isn’t often that a person reads two commentaries in one edition of The Salt Lake Tribune that say clearly and indisputably what needs to be said. I had that experience April 5.
The commentary by Ron Molen, a retired architect, headlined, “How do reasonable people become gun zealots?” describes the "choke-hold" (my terminology) the NRA has on our Legislature.
And the commentary by Dr. Doug Douville, headlined “No good reasons for rejection of Medicaid,” clearly and factually disputes every reason members of the Legislature set forth for rejection of Medicaid.
I have a challenge for any legislator (good, bad or indifferent). Write a commentary editorial of approximately the same length in clear, precise and simple language disputing the above-mentioned columns explaining your side of the story. It is my sentiment that you cannot do it.
Julia J. Erickson, Salt Lake City
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