Arizona highways are so full of trash, I’m embarrassed to travel them


I grew up in Wisconsin, Iowa and New Jersey, longing to live in Arizona as I paged through our family’s “Arizona Highways” magazine each month.Now I live here, 60-plus years later. The highways — in all parts of the state — provide beautiful views as long as you keep your eyes on the horizon and don’t look too closely.In all my travels around America, I have never quite seen the amount of litter that Arizona highways present. I am embarrassed to pick up family and friends at the Phoenix airport and drive them home along Interstate 17.The road south to Tucson is the absolute worst in the state. Many, many, many people obviously don’t care that they are marring the natural beauty of our state.It makes me so, so sad.Ellen Smith, FlagstaffDon’t nix story commentsI am very dismayed to see that you are discontinuing the comments portion of news articles. I find that it is very informative to see the opinions of fellow readers, whether I agree with them or not. It has provided for me a chance to see other points of view and to evaluate my thoughts on various subjects.More than once my opinion has been challenged by a cogent discussion of a particular topic. Also, the opinions are one of the things that keep me subscribing to the paper. If nothing else, it is cheap entertainment.John Soli, PhoenixUA president must resignRegarding Helen Rummel’s piece entitled, “‘Years in the making’: UA faces budget cuts, layoffs to fix financial crisis.”As a third generation Arizona alum, I am appalled and shocked at the mismanagement of the University of Arizona’s budget.This financial mismanagment — to the tune of a $177 million operating deficit — just didn’t happen yesterday. And now, the university feels compelled to spend more taxpayer money by hiring two outside consulting firms to fix the mess.Accountability of this fine Research I institution must start at the top. UA President Robert Robbins must resign immediately.Eric J. Halvorson, PhoenixHow is Kari Lake ‘ethical’?Kari Lake has just struck a blow for women’s equality. She has shown that women can be just as venal and mendacious as men! How her campaign can claim she is “an extremely ethical person” is beyond me.As a retired military officer and a moderate republican, her “ethical” behavior has forced me to vote for anyone else but her, regardless of party. Somehow she has managed to out-Trump even Donald Trump.God help us this next election cycle!Stevie Henderson, GoodyearSpend public money on public schoolsPublic school money paying for private schooling really irks me. Public money is for public schools.What irks m …

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