US EditionLetters to the editor – February 2, 2026
- Readers submitted letters to the editor, and the High Country News' letters page published on January 30, 2026, inviting submissions by email or mail.
- Readers alleged U.S. intervention during the first full week of January removed Venezuela's president, causing an estimated 500 deaths, with DHS shooting two people from Venezuela and an ICE agent murdering an ICE observer, citing videos and disputed accounts.
- Anna Grima of Swieqi wrote that Malta cancelled black garbage bag collection on January 20, causing nearly a week of uncollected waste that posed hygiene risks and showed poor planning.
- With huge increases in costs, a retired senior calculated their 2026 pension gains about $40.07 per month compared to 2025, yet the government still lacks decent raises.
- Installing a large solar farm on the San Pawl tat-Tarġa reservoir roof could feed electricity to a substation less than 500 metres away, Carmel Sciberras of Naxxar writes.
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Letters to the editor – February 2, 2026
Waste collection planningAnna Grima of Swieqi writes:I am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction with the local government’s decision to cancel the collection of black garbage bags on January 20 due to very strong winds, without having the foresight or responsibility to plan an alternative collection day.While extreme weather conditions are understandably beyond anyone’s control,...
POLITICS: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 2, 2026
The Issue: Gov. Tim Walz’s comparison of ICE agents in Minnesota to Nazis in The Netherlands. Gov. Tim Walz’s comparison of Minnesota’s revolt against federal ICE agents to the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands belies both his abject stupidity and rank political cynicism (“Walz’s Slander,” Brendan O’Neill, PostOpinion, Jan. 27). Walz, twisted and miserable man that he is, has managed to insult both the memories of innocent victims of Nazi Germa…
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