Letters to the editor

Dear Editor:

About President Biden’s loan forgiveness proposal: These students knew that they would have to pay their loans back. I think if we use taxpayer dollars, they should be used to provide free two-year community college.

Loans for higher education could be repaid by serving in the military or working in schools, hospitals, police and fire departments (where there are shortages of workers).

I don’t think workers with lower education should pay for people with college degrees who make more money.

Mina Mohajer

Via email rial about acquiring a green thumb later in life, which illustrates the maxim, “If at first you don’t succeed…”

As we age, our earlier eating habits catch up with us in the form of diabetes, heart disease, various cancers, and other threats and annoyances. So, if at first we failed in our dietary endeavors, we can now succeed.

At 74, I’ve been vegan for eons, but all around me I find other seniors catching on to the news that oat milk beats dairy, and that cutting out all meat, including chicken and fish, opens up a new way of eating as well as our arteries. Ingrid

Dear Editor:

I greatly enjoyed your publisher’s edito-