Mom’s Nightmare
Tears flowed as I read this story of a mother defending her daughter from an attempted kidnapping (“Tiger Mom to Save!” March 24).
Then outrage set in when I read that this monster had tried to snatch the teenager off the street not once but twice! The prosecutor’s response? A meaningless protection order.
Shame on DA Melinda Katz’s office for not throwing this violent kidnapper in jail before this happened. Or perhaps it was the new bail laws that tied his hands to allow a violent captor to be freed?
Our children are not safe. Every mother in this city should take this matter to heart and know that when criminals are pampered and their rights matter more than ours, innocent families will suffer.
Kathryn Donnelly, Queens
Budget priorities
It’s hard to blame public employee unions for municipal budget shortfalls (“New York Democrats succumb to Big Labor with another costly retirement benefit,” editorial, March 27).
Albany politicians continually hand out lucrative tax breaks and subsidies to well-connected donors for projects that rarely provide the jobs or economic benefits they promise. From $850 million for the new Buffalo Bills stadium to billions for Central New York semiconductor chip makers to billions more for projects like Atlantic Yards and Hudson Yards in New York. Not to mention projects like Buffalo Billion and Syracuse Film Hub imploded, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill.
Opportunistic politicians are well aware that unions must lobby the legislature for retirement benefits because the law prevents them from collective bargaining.
Unions do not set the rules; they simply play the game to the best of their abilities.
Charles T. Compton, former president of the NYS Supreme Court Officers Association, Bronx
groundhog day
Albert Einstein was quoted defining “insanity” as “doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results” (“Frozen Loans and Russ. $$ Options,” March 25).
We must ask ourselves how far to go in aiding Ukraine. If there is no solution to this impasse, does our continued aid only prolong the suffering? Are we – or at least Congress – going crazy?
Vincent Ruggiero, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Crazy classes
Numerous educational studies have shown that children learn more and perform better on tests and reading when class sizes are smaller (“This Law is Anti-Kid,” editorial, March 24).
Reducing class sizes is so important to many parents that they pay $65,000 a year in tuition to send their children to private schools such as Dalton, Trinity and Riverdale. Less affluent parents are voting with their feet and moving to Long Island and Westchester, where class sizes are smaller than New York.
Robert Grandt, Manhattan
Take notes, New York
Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine’s article on Miami’s law and order initiative should be a wake-up call to inept New York Mayor Adams (“Spring-break Breakup”, March 25).
Efforts in Miami Beach to curb spring break madness by imposing drunk-driving checkpoints, barring non-residents from garages and enforcing curfews have produced beneficial results. New York is not Miami Beach, but its city council should take note.
Stanley M. Rubin, Fresh Meadows
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