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A reader sounds the alarm about a recent tuberculosis outbreak and urges Congress to pass the End Tuberculosis Now Act.I have been a horse owner and rider for 65 years and just this last year decided that I wanted to own a carriage horse. I can tell you it was no easy task finding one close to home. San Antonio’s carriage horses have a valuable skill set and should easily find appropriate homes. I think the likelihood of them being “put down” is small.
Do you want to keep having carriage rides downtown? Then do what it takes to make it viable for horses. Close streets to vehicles at certain hours, for example. What happened to the paint they were going to use on streets to limit heat? Help change the environment and all will benefit. When’s the last time a thunderstorm roared in across downtown and dropped life-giving rain across San Antonio? Times have changed and not in the right direction to everyone walking the pavement.
Let’s let the horses go to where they can work safely. Under current circumstances, it’s not downtown.Returning once again to San Antonio to visit my sister, I was sorry to read about the recent tuberculosis case connected to three high schools. This happened where I am from, Snohomish County, Wash., in a high school choir. We think of TB mostly in other countries, but it definitely shows up in America every year.
Congress is working to pass the End Tuberculosis Now Act, S.3386/H.R.8654, directing the U.S. Agency for International Development to set bold targets to reach and treat the most vulnerable populations for all forms of tuberculosis. So help protect us locally by supporting this action globally to battle TB by asking your members of Congress to help pass this critical legislation.There has been a lot of talk to ending the long tradition of having horse-drawn carriages in downtown San Antonio.
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