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Re: the June 30 letter "When helping hand is not helpful."

I can appreciate the work ethic of the writer who wants those of us who give money to "beggars" to stop giving.

I, too, work hard to support my household. But I would like that writer to ask herself when was the last time she stopped to ask the story of someone on the street.

My nephew, an Iraqi war veteran, is 100 percent disabled from head injuries. The only sign of his disability is the patch covering his sightless eye. Yet he is unable to sustain work. His injuries make it impossible for him to manage his disability money. If it weren't for his large and loving family, he would be on the streets.

I only know two things about giving my money away to street people. The first is they are on the streets and I am not. The second is that they are asking for help and I can give it. It doesn't matter if they need it; it makes me a better person to give without worrying about whether they deserve it.

Re: the June 30 article "It's plain that Spain reigns after victory over Germans."

Thank you for covering the Euro Cup. It's not quite as much as a soccer nut like me would like, of course, but a photo and an article on the front page of Sports was lovely.

I especially like the "Sports on the Air" feature. I knew where to turn to get the live TV coverage of the whole tournament.

I read all these letters and articles about the price of gas. One question people aren't asking is, "Why don't we have temperature compensators on the gas pumps?"

Gasoline is measured at 231 cubic inches per gallon at 60 degrees. In Arizona, the gas we pump is hardly ever 60 degrees. It is closer to 95 degrees in the summer.

Gas expands when it's warm and at 95 degrees a gallon of gas is 235 cubic inches but the pumps still only give us 231.

What does that mean? In a 10-gallon fillup, we are getting about a quart less than what we pay for. This adds up over time. At today's prices, it adds up fast.

We need to enact legislation that requires retail gasoline vendors to temperature-compensate the fuel they sell to us.

Of course gas retailers will say that it is too expensive to add the temperature compensators to the pumps.

I only have this to say: Take the money you are getting from overcharging for the fuel that we pay for but aren't getting and put that toward the temperature compensators.

Re: the June 30 "Police van hunting for speeders."

Why does the Star publish the locations of the police radar vans on a daily basis? Isn't this counterproductive?

I'm sure the city has spent a lot of money for these specialized vans only to have the Star reveal their locations. How can the police crack down on speeders when the Star tips them off?

I'm sure the habitual speeders read the Star only to get this information. Surely they will take another route to avoid getting caught, which may cause safety concerns on other streets.

As a taxpayer and concerned citizen, I am asking the Star to stop this practice so the police can do their lob without any further interference.

Editor's note: The Tucson Police Department posts a weekly schedule of photo-radar van locations on its Web site, which is where the Star obtains the information. Also, state law requires warning signs as drivers approach the location of photo radar.

Re: the July 1 article "Gaping divide over planned Rosemont mine."

I have traveled throughout the world for the last 25 years working on various projects. I have also worked on mining-reclamation projects in New Mexico. Rosemont's plan is an outstanding improvement and shows proactive reclamation planning at its best.

If the citizens of this country continue to have the selfish attitude of not wanting anything that might inconvenience them or cause them some sort of sensory discomfort — sight, sound, smell — we will not have to worry about developing nations using our resources, or the lack of restrictions for countries like Mexico.

We will be relegated to becoming a Third World country ourselves. It is beginning already and we will have brought it upon ourselves.

The doomsayers that publicly lament anything and everything that they do not agree with are the reason that we have in power people like George Bush and the nickel-and-dime politicians that were feeding the frenzy at the recent public meeting. Keep crying the sky will fall, and someday it will be true.

Re: the June 27 op-ed column "Flip-flopping OK — if you're a media favorite" by Charles Krauthammer.

Thank you for printing Krauthammer's column of the flip-flopping of Barack Obama.

Krauthammer complains about the political morals of others, repeating in print the diatribes on radio and TV of Rush Limbaugh and other "non-representatives" of conservatives.

This shows that bias according to ideology exists across the spectrum of the media.

Were Krauthammer to be truly occupied in documenting flip-flopping across the board, rather than making political points, he would have noted the many twists and turns taken by the Bush administration during the past seven and a half years.

He might even have noted the parking of the "straight talk express" by Arizona's part-time senator after the latter concluded that independence and "straight talk" would never secure the coveted Republican nomination for president.

At the present, the shift by the absent Sen. John McCain from plain talk to heading the "Bush-lite" brand of political brew is definitely the preferred political beverage among conservative flip-floppers and their supporters in the press and electronic media.

Re: the June 28 editorial "Resolution saves Grand Canyon from mining — for a while."

The Star's opinions are typical of the ignorance displayed by those who sit in climate-controlled spaces and take pot shots at issues they know little or nothing about and have never seen.

Rep. Raúl Grijalva is included, although he did make it as far as Flagstaff for a field hearing on his proposed bill (H.R. 5583) that he thinks will "save Grand Canyon."

Relying solely on organizations and politicians with agendas, media included, for information, undermines the Star's credibility.

I encourage those with concerns to contact the parties about which statements are being made to verify facts. Anyone who has made the effort to study the properties of natural uranium and the modern uranium industry in Northern Arizona can see that it has not harmed, and will not harm, the environment.

We all pay more for natural resources and their derivatives due to relentless, ill-conceived efforts by entities mentioned herein who are blind to facts but consider themselves qualified to interfere with or control processes that aren't broken.