As someone soon to be scheduling a flight out of Logan, I read with more than mere interest Betsy McCaughey’s commentary (“Government conceals airports most at risk,” Boston Herald, Feb. 10). Can we really take for granted that the airports we use are actually safe? Shouldn’t we know the identified risks we  take when flying?

With the recent Jan. 29 midair crash over the Potomac near Reagan Airport still on our minds, it was disconcerting that McCaughey’s opinion piece stated that federal officials were “hiding the truth about where the next air disaster is likely to occur.” She also wrote “This government coverup should outrage the traveling public.”

The US Senate recently held a hearing in response to an “alarming series of close calls with commercial flights narrowly escaping collisions with one another.” One retired FAA engineer is quoted as saying that the situation if left unremedied  is “an  accident waiting to happen.”

Is it really true that 17 of these airport air traffic control systems present the most urgent risk? According to McCaughey, the Government Accountability Office refuses to identify those 17 worst airport systems. The GAO is paid by taxpayers and some would ask why the coverup for the FAA. We have a right to know how many airports are inadequately staffed in air traffic control towers.

As the commentary clearly pointed out, talk is cheap and action is mandated. There are future accidents out there waiting to happen if we don’t act now. As McCaughey closed out her piece, “No secrets. No cover ups.”

Sal Giarratani

East Boston

Many thanks to Peter Lucas on his column describing the failure of the entire Massachusetts delegation to support the congressional bill that would ban men from playing in woman’s sports.

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) has allowed boys to play in (girls’) high school sports which has seen injuries in various sports including basketball and field hockey.

Rep. Seth Moulton, who has been vocal about his girls’ playing sports against male athletes, went along with the delegation voting against the bill. Another classic example of “political group think” and the lack of independent thinkers in the Massachusetts Democratic delegation who essentially vote 100% together on every piece of legislation.

Fran Bogdanowicz

Longmeadow

There are certain principles of American life that are baked into the fabric of our society and one of them is that we must compete on a level playing field, no thumbs on the scale. But when a trans female, born male, competes against born females, the scale is weighted against the girls, thus subverting the principle of fair play. I am not surprised that Democrats do not recognize this as unfair, as progressivism distorts intellectual vision, giving big fat thumbs to social justice warriors.

Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati, Ohio