Citizen-only Census
Working for the Census 20 years ago, I was appalled to learn that there is no requirement that you must be a citizen to complete the form (“Dem census incentive,” Miranda Devine, Aug. 19).
The Census has to be changed so that only US citizens will be counted, not non-citizens. This will guarantee that only US citizens run our government.
Joann Mirone
Old Greenwich, Conn.
Blame Murphy
The Post’s Aug. 17 editorial “Dem’s Electric Disaster” rightly blames “Democrats’ bungled energy policies” for “exploding utility bills” (Editorial, Aug. 17). But it was off-base to charge that “GOP Gov. Chris Christie shares in the blame for the Garden State’s madness.”
In fact, under our administration, New Jersey expanded natural gas pipeline and plant capacity and made the state electricity self-sufficient by 2016 for the first time in state history.
Gov. Phil Murphy’s “climate” hyper-focus — such as a four-year legal battle to kill the PennEast Pipeline, which our administration supported — has deterred new baseload power generation, helping create the crisis New Jersey ratepayers now face.
Also: Oyster Creek was the second oldest nuclear power plant in the US when it closed, and owner Exelon had agreed with our administration to not close it before 2019; our plan to replace that power included the PennEast pipeline and additional natural gas generation.
The Murphy administration went in a completely opposite direction, adopting strategies to reach clean-energy and emission-reductions goals, with no focus at all on consumer costs or baseload power for the state.
New Jersey was energy self-sufficient when we left office, with reasonable rates and increased reliability. The Murphy administration broke what we fixed.
Former Gov. Chris Christie & Former NJDEP Commissioner Robert Martin
Morristown, NJ
Faux ‘feels like’
I loved Anthony Watts’ article on the overuse of “feels like” temperatures (“Making Summer feel ‘Real’ Worse,” Aug. 18).
Weather used to be reported with straightforward facts — temperature, humidity, wind speed. Now it’s become exaggerated and sensational. Watts is right: It’s time to get back to factual reporting.
Gina Lorenzo
Ramsey, NJ
SATC’s flop ending
Kirsten Fleming’s column on the infamous conclusion of the “Sex and the City” sequel is not the first I have read to express dismay and confusion at the sordid end of this story (“Legacy is in the crapper,” Aug. 16).
How would any rational person expect it to end? The show from its inception was based on the idea that women can objectify and use men (as they have too often been used in the past) and expect a happy ending.
It turns out a woman doesn’t “need a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” but rather men and women were created to complement and complete each other in the context of monogamous marriage. No wonder Carrie’s life ends up in the toilet.
Stephen Quinn
Huntington Beach, Calif.
Deadly license folly
Once again, there is much hand-wringing at the absolutely avoidable death of three American citizens in Florida caused by an illegal alien (“ ‘Killer’ driver hauled back to Fla. from Calif.,” Aug. 22).
He was given a full commercial drivers license by the state of California and Washington state, even though he wasn’t able to read the majority of highway signs in a test. Something similar has happened before. It will happen again, and the country learns nothing.
Angela Lennox-Kay,
Hackettstown, NJ
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