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Dear Editor,
    I have been using your publication to search out entertainment for many years. I recently made the mistake of reading some of the articles.
    I will not use your periodical any longer. The stuff you try to pass off as journalism and news is more editorial opinion submissions and lacks the qualities that make journalism a valuable resource. This is exacerbated by your opinions.
    It is evident that facts and logic are being omitted. If you truly believe the things you write, something has gone terribly wrong. I suspect this is not the case and that you are simply attempting to utilize the gullibility and receptivity of the public to accomplish an agenda. That disqualifies the writers as journalists and/or reporters and puts you into the column Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky defined as the "propaganda model" in their book Manufacturing Consent.
    From studying the works of Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann, it appears you and/or your bosses are adept practitioners of the techniques they pioneered along with others in the early 1900s.
    You might think you are not doing something that is wrong, but I doubt it. Self-acknowledged and intentional evil is more likely.
    If you are not doing what you are doing with full awareness, maybe you shouldn't do it. Too many people doing things when they don't know fully what they are doing is what has given us the world we have today. Well, that and intentional allegiance to evil.

Dear Editor,
    I gotta know what Gary Clark Jr. did to get snubbed from the 2018/19 Austin Music Poll. There’s no way in hell he just didn’t get the votes. Are y’all gonna release a statement?

Dear Editor,
    Re “Point Austin: Signing On to a Green New Deal” (News, March 1): One thing this article didn’t cover was the cost of not having a Green New Deal. We have only until 2030 to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions or we’ll face runaway global warming costing $550 trillion to $600 trillion, causing “global economic collapse” followed by “societal collapse” (National Academy of Sciences, IPCC, [National] Climate Assessment 2018). The Green New Deal is the only plan out there that can meet that 2030 deadline.
    Climate disasters just from 2016-18 cost U.S. taxpayers over $450 billion (NOAA) and those costs are about to skyrocket as global temperatures continue to rise. Just a half-degree increase in global temperatures would cost the global economy over $54 trillion (IPCC). Annual global GDP is $87 trillion.
    Carbon pollution alone, caused by burning fossil fuels, kills over 300,000 Americans annually (MIT.edu) and costs Americans over $800 billion in medical bills (Forbes).
    Rapid decarbonization would add $2.6 trillion to annual global GDP (IPCC). The U.S. is 24.32% of global GDP, so that would be well over $500 billion annually added to our GDP. The Green New Deal will create 15 million good-paying, local, permanent (40-year) green jobs (Stanford University’s SolutionsProject,org).
    We can pay for the GND with a bill already in Congress (House Resolution 7173) called “Carbon Dividends.” It will tax fossil fuel corporations out of existence and give all the tax money to the taxpayers, adding $75 billion to $80 billion annually to our GNP. It’s worked as promised in Canada for a decade: “Canada passed a carbon tax that will give most Canadians more money” (The Guardian).
    And since global warming is a global problem, carbon dividends can also make other nations cut their emissions as fast as we do. See how at CitizensClimateLobby.org.