The “Grand Junction’s moving on up” editorial in the June 1 edition of The Daily Sentinel, trumpeted more than “a cautionary note [to] businesss, political, civic and economic development [leaders and] officials” that Grand Junction has a structural systemic knowledge-intensive problem, especially among 25 to 35 years old population.

Perhaps how college graduates were treated and/or discouraged over the decades created this weakness. It would seem employers and pillars of the community would benefit from reviewing their past actions and try to overcome emotional, psychological and educational barriers to change the course of Grand Junction’s socio-economic development and out comes.

I read a few “Speaking Of Science” guest columnist articles. However, Dr. Warren MacEvoy’s “U.S. no longer land of opportunity for innovators” (The Daily Sentinel, June 2) is filled with fallacies, especially “arguing from ignorance.” He does not know in the early 1950s the eastern establishment’s Ivy League elitists planned to import great numbers of math-educated Asians.

Let us Americans return to being inventors, tinkerers and more self-sufficient through family, school and individual encouragements that permeate our society again.

EMZY VEAZY III
Aspen

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