Stolen state database
Re: “Stolen state database puts 1.4 million at ID-theft risk,” Nov. 2 news story.
This article made me very angry. First we had the Denver Election Commission “forget” and leave sensitive data at their old building, and now we have a state contractor not protecting sensitive data.
I have many questions. Why wasn’t the information used for the state’s child-support enforcement encrypted, as was the info for new state hires? Why wasn’t my seven-year-old information safely archived? When will government officials stop looking for just the “cheapest” supplier of services, and realize they have a responsibility to protect the citizens of this state? Where are the “prudent men and women” that we supposedly elected?
Brad Wilson, Denver
Everybody’s doing it
Re: “Post’s coverage of CU study on fossil feces,” Nov. 2 Open Forum.
In reading letter-writer Jean Witte’s comments regarding her reaction to the Post article about fossilized feces, I was baffled that anyone would be offended by it, especially when the same issue had so many articles about politicians.
Regarding her final sentence, “Our children deserve better from us,” please note that she doesn’t speak for everyone.
We’ve decided that our 4-year-old son may as well know about all things natural, like the fact that the excretion of fecal matter (aka poop) is a natural process that follows the ingestion of food. Put another way, “it happens.”
An excellent children’s book on the topic is “Everyone Poops” by Taro Gomi. While written for children, I’d recommend this book to any adults offended by The Post’s article.
Mike Collier, Denver
Denver recycling bins
Re: “Denver’s new recycling containers too big?” Nov. 2 Open Forum.
To address letter-writer Susan Hester, who wrote that “with great regret” she has declined participating in the new recycling program: It is tragic to me that concern for aesthetics now supersede a willingness to participate in a program that has expanded, enabling us all to reduce landfill contributions by accepting materials which were not previously recycled curbside. The benefit of being able to toss cereal boxes, junk mail, phone books, newspapers and cans and bottles into one receptacle far outweighs any inconvenient eyesore in the scope of environmental impact.
Moreover, what about the city workers, who have lifted thousands of smaller purple tubs thousands of times? Tubs full of soggy newspaper, weighing, over the course of an average route after a wet day, thousands of pounds. No concern? Let’s not think about others, though. The inconvenience of maneuvering the new wheeled cart with handles once every two weeks is just too much, I suppose.
At what point in the environmental plight we are faced with will the risk of a slight eyesore be overcome by necessity?
Sarah Washburn, Denver
Nuns and the election
Re: “Nuns urge voters to be creatures of conscience, not habit,” Nov. 2 Diane Carman column.
Diane Carman writes about Sister Mary Ann Cunningham and the National Coalition of American Nuns, who are opposing the American bishops on what it means to “act Catholic” in the voting booth. I am a Catholic and it angers me to think that the money I contribute each week to the church is supporting these women who are undermining our faith. I suggest they start their own church. They could ordain themselves priests, perform gay-marriage ceremonies, and have an abortion clinic next to their church. They accuse many Catholics of “blind obedience,” when in my opinion they are the ones who are blind – blind to the truth. I am obedient to God through His church and, last I heard, Catholic nuns take three vows: poverty, chastity and, oh yes, obedience.
Kathy Cain, Yampa
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