Climate mandates

While President Biden’s policies are shoving down our throats climate change mandates which are fueling inflation, taking away our freedoms of choice on many issues – cars we can own and drive, how we cook our food, how we heat our homes –  his supporters are in the streets taking away people’s rite of passage, picketing businesses, occupying buildings, demanding all kind of drastic measures to protect the climate. John Kerry, the “Climate Czar,” who should know, admitted that the US reducing its emissions to zero wouldn’t make much of a difference in the global climate change fight.

So you see we are “not the bad guys” as we are using technology to reduce our carbon footprint in a timely fashion while the politicians are jumping off a cliff with mandates that have not been thought through – some of which enrich our enemies, others that enrich their friends

Paul Quaglia

Billerica

Hillary Clinton

Regarding Joe Battenfeld’s article  “Hillary Clinton waiting for Joe Biden to stumble in 2024:” Joe Biden’s reelection bid began sinking well before he announced his intention to run again for president in 2024 and the “political sharks” smell blood in the Democrat-primary water. Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton she more resembles the “Landshark” from “Saturday Night Live” in the mid 1970s than the bloodthirsty beast from the movie “Jaws” and is a laughable shadow of her former self.

James Murrin

Marshfield

Redistricting map

As  I read Joe Battenfeld’s latest commentary on the ongoing saga of the Boston City Council trying to redraw a new district map, (“Redistricting ridiculousness, “Boston Herald, May 23), I had to agree that going back to the City Charter and returning back to the way things were before 1983 when Boston had one 9-member elected Boston City Council and no district  councilors messing up everything.

Originally back in 1981 when voters chose at the municipal election that year to go the district representation route, I opposed the reform for just the very reason we see today, where a fragmented city council cannot get anything done right with all the bickering over neighborhood lines. Do we need districts where district city councilors only care about their own fiefdoms and to hell with the rest of the city?

The former 9-member city council lasted from 1949 to 1983 and worked well for all the city’s neighborhoods. Maybe it is time for a new ballot question for all Boston voters. Is it time to go back to the future? And while I am here, how about returning to the old elected  5-member at large Boston School Committee too? Just thinking.

Battenfeld is so correct, all this current nonsense in the City Council Chamber is ridiculous indeed.

Sal Giarratani

East Boston