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Today s letters: Readers comment on the Juneteenth vote, the GOP and a recent editorial Ocala Star-Banner More bipartisan votes Congress passed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday on a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote (all U.S. senators and all but 14 Republican members of the House of Representatives). The bill commemorates the end of the Civil War’s root cause: slavery in the confederate states. How did such a bipartisan vote happen, and can it happen again? There are important issues facing our country, and Congress was elected to address them. We need agreement on rebuilding infrastructure, addressing climate change, gun control and, most important, voter rights. ....
Ocala Star-Banner More bipartisan votes Congress passed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday on a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote (all U.S. senators and all but 14 Republican members of the House of Representatives). The bill commemorates the end of the Civil War’s root cause: slavery in the confederate states. How did such a bipartisan vote happen, and can it happen again? There are important issues facing our country, and Congress was elected to address them. We need agreement on rebuilding infrastructure, addressing climate change, gun control and, most important, voter rights. Now that there is agreement that the Civil War ended in 1865, let’s find agreement on the things that will improve the lives of all Americans. We all need safe roads and bridges, clean water, access to safe and secure Internet and access to the ballot box for free and fair elections. Let’s agree on uniform standards for voter ID and access to voting. Let’s mediate our ....
Smoke in Washington hasnât cleared â itâs billowed Updated January 6, 2021, 5:21 p.m. Email to a Friend Our Civil War âcan still be lostâ I agree with Kevin Cullen in his column âConfederate reduxâ (Metro, Jan. 5) that our moment is part of the Civil War that burned hot between 1861 and 1865 but that had brewed since the birth of our nation and that continues to divide us. The underlying issue for that ghastly military conflict was slavery, a key element in the economic development of the Republic. Slavery contradicted the ideals of the Declaration of Independence but was accepted in the Constitution. More than half a million Americans died confronting that contradiction. ....