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Letter: Legislature is more concerned with bureaucracy than our children’s lives

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Damage at Salt Lake City's Caffé Molise caused by the March 18, 2020, earthquake.

Recently I read in The Tribune about the deplorable physical state of Utah’s elementary schools. If the major earthquake expected along the Wasatch Front in the next 50 years were to hit tomorrow, a majority of schools in this area would collapse or suffer major structural damage and some 500 children would likely be killed. Yet the Legislature is more concerned with bureaucracy than our children’s lives and, rather than working to find a much needed solution, says it is up to cash-strapped local school boards to address the problem.

In contrast, I saw on the internet that the Republican governor of Massachusetts has just made $100 million available to four poor heavily-Democratic working class Boston suburbs — including Everett where I grew up and got a much better education than is available here -- that have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

What a contrast! Our Republican legislators ignore a major problem affecting our children, while a Republican governor in heavily Democratic Massachusetts helps four cash strapped suburbs. Utah is a sad excuse for a state.

Robert Snyder, Eagle Mountain

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