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Whiting, N.J.: I’m a Yankees fan since 1978, but I was deeply offended at the deceitful way they marketed their “Satchel Paige Bobblehead Night” event on Thursday, May 11, at the stadium. Paige was pictured wearing a Yankees uniform as if he were a member of our team at one time. He was a member of the New York Black Yankees, a Negro Leagues team, for only one year in 1941. Jackie Robinson didn’t break Major League Baseball’s color barrier until 1947 and the Yanks could have elevated P...

Maspeth: Voicer Bob Cavaliere has some valid points. There are people who are professional squatters. They know exactly how to live rent-free. My experience occurred pre-pandemic. A guy used a story that he was recently divorced and wanted to be close to his son. Nothing was further from the truth. He paid rent for a few months, then brought in another renter without my knowledge. He had nightly drinking parties and card games that kept the upstairs tenants awake most nights.

Brooklyn: I’m imploring the media to stop calling the storming of the Capitol a riot. It was not a riot. It was a coordinated, chaotic assault on a building that housed the democratically elected members of a government of 330 million citizens.

Jersey City: The labor movement has improved working conditions, has created workplace democracy, and has fostered active participation in labor-management decision-making. The many benefits, protections and rights that workers enjoy today would never have existed if it weren’t for the laudable efforts of labor unions. There have been initiatives designed to degrade labor standards, weaken unions and erode workplace protections. Those efforts would have diminished the bargaining power and poli...

Manhattan: I respect the often eloquently argued, intellectually honest and impassioned statements of those who consider the killing of innocent human life abhorrent in all its forms, including the termination of early pregnancies.

Manhattan: Re “Fix 421-a to produce more affordable housing and good jobs” (op-ed, March 28): Mayor Adams is right to call for greater investments in affordable housing, but with thousands of families on the brink of homelessness due to the expiration of the state’s eviction moratorium, it’s critically important that New York City and state leaders take action to ensure that families with children can stay in their homes and out of shelters.

Manhattan: Chuck Weinstock is right on target in making light of Gov. Hochul’s non-plan for redoing Penn Station (“The blind men & the white elephant,” op-ed, Feb. 27). Missing is a bigger picture of how the region’s three commuter rail lines could work together to shrink the traffic overload on the region’s congested and polluted highways.

Kew Gardens: “The Sixth of January,” patterned after “Remember, Remember the Fifth of November,” the Guy Fawkes Day rhyme recalling England’s Gunpowder Plot of 1605: As December the Seventh lives forever in infamy, and 9/11 arrests our attention / So never forget the Sixth of January / The Trump MAGA mob’s insurrection. / Remember, remember the prior November / Trump’s defeat sparked joyous celebration / but refusing conceding — he kept bullying, tweeting / and spreading his “v...

Knoxville, Tenn.: This week’s U.S. Senate impeachment trial is capturing the attention of millions of Americans. The graphic video evidence of what transpired in the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 will become seared in our national memory, regardless of whether the final verdict is to acquit or convict former President Trump of inciting an insurrection that day.