Arizona should ban hunting dogs - and politics in the entertainment section

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27-04-2025

Regarding The Republic story 'Hunting mountain lions with dogs will remain legal in Arizona after commission vote':
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission is historically controlled by trophy hunting interests, a tiny minority of the public that is allowed to do enormous damage to delicately balanced wildlife populations.
Hunting big predators with dogs is well known for senseless brutality, often harming other species in the chase. It is generally recognized as a barbaric relic.
Commission members should represent wildlife as a public trust with career wildlife biologists instead of narrow special interests.
The commission's unanimous decision to reject conservation groups that want to limit the use of hunting dogs in Arizona was predictable.
Candace Charvoz, Tucson
Republicans hate DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and are trying to scrub its influence from the government, universities and business.
Why?
What's wrong with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?
The words reflect complex ideas about social values. They are aspirational and idealistic. Why do they make Republicans angry?
Is the real source of their hatred the white patriarchy defending itself against the erosion of its economic and social dominance established over hundreds of years.
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The idea that all men, which later included all women, were created equal caused an equal uproar then and resulted in a civil war.
Is this fight against DEI just another battle of the civil war?
The hatred seems to be felt more deeply in the Old South where all the old arguments have resurfaced.
Is the cry against DEI just a mask for racism, a continuation the Southern backlash to their defeat in the Civil War?
The Southern states used Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise freed blacks, fought integration and have been doing so ever since. Trump's new cabinet is whiter than the last one.
Is this and Republican hatred proof that all men are not created equal.
Alan Austin, Phoenix
During my working life, I didn't really like or respect any of my bosses. Yet I came to work every day and did my job to the best of my ability.
That's why I don't understand why Suns players who make a lot of money think they can slack off on the job just because they don't like the coach or buy into his methods.
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What does that say to the fans? That work ethic doesn't matter?
Coach Budenholzer is a scapegoat for grown men who gave up because, in their minds, their work lives weren't 'perfect.'
I'm not sure I can be a Suns fan any more.
Kathy Roeske, Paradise Valley
Re: 'Welcome to the dumbest reality show ever: Donald Trump's second term':
If Bill Goodykoontz wants to write political columns, why not just transfer him to the editorial department and be done with it?
When I turn to the entertainment section, I hope to be entertained. In part, this means freedom from the politics which invade just about every other section of the newspaper.
Yet in this Sunday's paper, there again sat Goodykoontz spouting out his usual political rant. Please give us some place in the news that is free of politics.
Andy Barrett, Peoria
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: AZ must end hunting with dogs, Suns must cut the slack | Letters