Opinion
LTE – Dan Herscher – 4-21-2021
Pricing Carbon Pollution: A popular policy to save lives this Earth Day Celebrating Earth Day is a time to consider how to address the related crises of air pollution and climate disruption. One extremely effective policy option is becoming popular, pricing carbon pollution from fossil fuels. Nationally the U.S. Chamber of Commerce1, the Business Roundtable2,…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Upthall – 4-21-2021
Letter to the Editor On March 3, H.R.1 or the “For the People Act of 2021” passed in the House by a 220 to 210 vote. Here is what was in it. (I guess it is in the Senate’s hands now.) The Heritage Foundation writes, “H.R.1 would federalize and micromanage the election process administered by…
Read MoreLTE – Rodney Berg – 4-14-2021
The dilemma at the southern border is getting so bad ranchers are awakened in the middle of the night by strangers ,property being stolen, gates left open with cattle being released! In smaller towns they are being overrun, scared to go out at night. They are being invaded by the cartel, drugs, including fentenol from…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 4-14-2021
I made a mathematical error in last week’s letter. After counting the illegals on surveillance cameras passing through Cochise County, AR, the county sheriff estimated than only 28% of the total illegals are getting apprehended by the border patrol and US officials. Of the 171,000 migrants that BP actually picked up in March, it is…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 4-14-2021
You owe $85,000 If my figuring is right, we all owe around $85,000 as our share of the national debt. So for a family of four that is over a third of a million dollars. Let’s all dig deep and pay it off. That’s like buying a new home. Can we all do that? I…
Read MoreLTE – Janet Scepurek – 4-7-2021
To the Editor: I write in response to your opinion column of March 24, 2021. I believe Kevin McCarthy was incorrect when he said that president Biden said it was his top priority to offer citizenship for eleven million undocumented immigrants. I’ve read many articles and seen many times on television that Biden’s #1 priority…
Read MoreLTE – Rodney Berg – 4-7-2021
The Russian and the Chinese and Asian people are not our enemy, they are hardworking people, but the governments such as Socialism, Marxism and communism are our real enemies the kind the left is trying to force on us. President Biden accused President Putin of being a killer; President Putin immediately challenged him to a…
Read MoreLTE – JoAnn Utphall – 4-7-2021
Letter to the Editor The surge of illegal immigrants at the border is creating a horrible, humanitarian crisis. Biden’s comments, along with his Executive Orders have given immigrants an incentive to come to the US which is now causing a flood of immigrants. His policies should be immediately reversed and the US should continue to…
Read MoreOff the Editor’s Desk – 4-7-2021
Drugs, not guns are the problem! Because a couple of nuts went berserk and took lives in Georgia and Colorado a couple of weeks ago, every liberal including our President are blaming guns and not looking into who pulled the trigger and why? There is nothing that we can say or do that will ease…
Read MoreLTE – Tom Aebly – 3-31-2021
Dear Editor: Joe Biden’s first press conference March 25, 2021, approximately 12:35 p.m. CDT channel 13 WEAU. He is calling for the Republican Party to quit resisting his leadership and unite with him. Why were the Democrats’ cooperation refused during the Trump administration? A call for unity must go both ways. The United States already…
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