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My husband is a legal immigrant. We worked long and hard and incurred considerable expense to do the right thing.

I have no tolerance for those who enter this country illegally or for those who support them.

The Pima Council on Aging is in support of the Regional Transportation Authority's plan to provide much needed relief in traffic congestion and better roads for all our residents. It supports our long-standing concern and advocacy for improvements in transportation. Transportation has always been one of the top three concerns expressed to us by seniors.

Additional bus routes, bus shelters, expansion of hours of operation, increased funding for other transit services, a neighborhood bus circulator service and for the first time, monies for a volunteer transportation system are contained in this plan.

The half-cent sales tax will not affect costs for groceries or prescriptions.

Our community has needed these services for so many years. The past has become the present; let's not have the present become the future.

Tucson does not need wider roads. Wider roads would mean more houses, more shopping centers and lots more people. Our population is already too large for our water supply.

Wider roads and more people would lower our quality of life. But road construction would mean lots of money for the developers and the car dealers. Why do you think they are spending so much money to get you to vote yes?

Vote against the Regional Transportation Authority's plan. Vote no on Questions 1 and 2. Keep Tucson from turning into another Phoenix.

Three cheers for Supervisor Ray Carroll and his stand on the provision of pornography at public libraries ("Is library a place for porn?" April 24).

How can one condone that our taxes must be used to provide access to the perversion of pornography? We must begin to know right from wrong. Where there is no vision, the people perish.

The significance of the fact that many senior retired military leaders are calling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld cannot be overstated.

I spent 10 years in the U.S. Air Force, and I know what it takes for these men to speak out. They are doing this because they care about this country and cannot, out of deep-seated feelings of duty, let the incompetence of Rumsfeld continue without speaking out. These men could not say anything outside channels when they were on active duty nor could they act in ways counter to their orders.

Once they retire, however, they are free to speak out. The fact that they are speaking out, and in great numbers, is something to which everyone in this country must pay close attention. Ignoring their warnings is something we do at our great peril.

In one breath, the president has declared that this nation's addiction to foreign oil is a threat to our nation's security, but in the same breath changes the Environmental Protection Agency's rules on refineries so we can use more foreign oil.

We all know the drill for reducing our oil consumption, and painfully, it involves changing our lifestyle. The long-term security of this nation requires reducing oil consumption.

A president who is truly interested in national security would be leading us toward reduced consumption even if it is not popular.

The April 27 editorial "High gas prices could force us to find alternatives" was right and wrong. Competition can regulate prices.

However, when 12 or more oil companies combine into four or five megacompanies and then divide markets among themselves, the free market cannot work to the benefit of consumers. And while demand for oil has increased, the presumption of future interruption or political upheaval to substantially raise prices is gouging.

A government dominated by oil interests will never see price gouging for what it is.

Re: recent student demonstrations about immigrant rights.

Kudos to my colleagues for teaching students to think, problem solve and take action on an informed decision.

Shame, shame on Arizona legislators who fund education so that Arizona is ranked 46th to 49th in per-pupil spending and then have the gall to criticize educators for doing their job.

My name is Luz Patricia Castillo and I am a Mexican immigrant. I have mastered the English language better than my native language, but because my accent remains — the last bit that remains of me as a Mexican child — many Americans have the nerve to tell me I need to learn to speak English the right way.

It's days like this when I cry for the suffering of my people and the subhuman conditions in which they live. Day by day they pick the produce which I cheaply buy just to throw away when it goes to waste in my refrigerator.

I went to school with children who had no shoes, with school books that had to be shared by several students, and here I find myself in shame, under my air conditioner, doing nothing to support or even minimize the suffering of my people.

The Star's April 21 front page photo of Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer testifying before House Republican leaders is a testament to the hypocrisy of the Legislature that should be etched in stone and mounted in public.

Pictured is a man who has spent his life in the service of our children and public education appearing before a body that continually fails to act on behalf of Arizona's children.

That the Republican leadership in the Legislature should ever question a man of Pfeuffer's stature is beyond hypocrisy. One needs only to check Arizona's standing with respect to the support of education in the state or the welfare of the state's children to realize what a dismal example of leadership our Legislature provides.