I was a bit surprised by three articles near each other in The Tribune recently.
One described a great new place to take our older, medically vulnerable homeless people who, up until now, have been driven — after medical care at the hospital — directly to a drop off at the homeless shelter, if one was available.
The second was an article on Kirk Cullimore Jr., who may be giving up his partnership in a very successful eviction law firm to run for state office, supposedly to help make more laws supporting landlord evictions. And third, the article on our state school board preparing to decide “whether getting an education should be equal for all Utah students!”
Kind of a wicked trio of articles when so many Utah citizens are suffering from rising rents, evictions, living on our streets, lack of pay increases for years, higher medical bills, costlier health insurance, higher deductibles, higher food costs, school closures in poor areas, expensive or nonexistent child care, and massive numbers of homeless people on the streets in our capital city.
If I were moving here from another state, I would wonder how citizens here define “love thy neighbor as thyself.”
It seems that “thy selves” in Utah would appear rather selfish or very slow or reluctant to solve these problems. The new facility for older medically vulnerable homeless people, though amazing, is but one drop in our rather shallow Biblical bucket.
Bev Terry, Salt Lake City