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Staten Island: As a proud union member since 1970, I must share my outrage with my union. The Communications Workers of America, which has been my union since the day I started working for the New York Telephone Company, which ended up becoming Verizon. I was a union representative for 33 of my 35 years and helped obtain the charter and formation of my Brooklyn local, of which I was an officer when I retired.

Reader letters to Newsday.

Huntington, L.I.: Never were more prophetically profound words written about our politics and our planet than in your twin editorials on April 21, “Assembly line politics” and “Our only home.”

Douglaston: Here we go again. Just when I thought we were safe, the Sunday Crossword II puzzle is at it again. I didn’t write in on March 12, when a puzzle was very frustrating. I was hoping it was a fluke. Last week, on March 19, after taking great pleasure in being able to decipher all of the answers to a pretty tricky puzzle, I took it as a sign of better things to come. Instead, it was an omen.

New Hyde Park, L.I.: I understand that Susan Shapiro (“Cannabis shop turning nabe to pot,” op-ed, Jan. 14) is upset that she has to deal with the crowds, smoke and other inconveniences of living near New York’s first licensed adult-use cannabis dispensary. However, her op-ed was nothing short of “Reefer Madness”-style propaganda.