Gestating parents and more: Letters to the Editor June 7, 2026

State Sen.Luis Sepúlveda and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin want to rewrite parental laws to be gender neutral (“NY ‘term’inating mother & father,” June 4).We’ll spend countless dollars eliminating the words “mother” and “father.” Wasting time on this nonsense is just that — nonsense.

For God’s sake, do your jobs and stop wasting time and money.Barry SmithWatermillThe Post editorial board has reached a new low with its relentless attacks on workers (“New York’s Mafia-esque Unions,” Editorial, June 1).While families are struggling with rising costs, vanishing jobs and economic uncertainty, we should be coming together to support working people, not vilifying them.The Post resorts to comparing labor’s fight for better wages, benefits and working conditions to cancer and organized crime.The underlying message is clear: The Post doesn’t believe working people deserve dignity and respect on the job.

For shame.Mario Cilento, President, New York AFL-CIOManhattanMayor Mamdani and Gov.Hochul fail to realize that putting people who show symptoms of mental illness into a psychiatric ward at a hospital is helping them (“Pal: It’s a ‘capital’ murder,” June 2).Our current administration seems to disregard the loss of human lives by thinking all culprits should remain free.

This is morally misguided.The time has come to invest in more psychiatric care to help culprits when it is appropriate and help save innocent lives.Debbie GinsbergWest HempsteadAfter so many slashings by knife-carrying murderers on commuter railroads, why don’t we have metal detectors working and being used before commuters get into the railroad entryways (“Throat slash vic had knife,” June 3)?I understand it could be expensive to institute, but isn’t it worth it if we save lives? This country spends so much money on other agendas.

If we spent money on this, just think of how much safer our commutes would be, allowing us to travel without being knifed to deat...