Category: Letters to the Editor

The members of the school board are still accepting their pay checks as if they were doing their full school duties and everything was normal. Nothing could be further from the truth….

Too many Americans can no longer use any level of critical thinking. Simply defined, critical thinking involves the skill of considering the consequences of doing or not doing something before taking action….

I did not intend to write another letter as I have been a hog with sending them in before the election. However, on Wednesday morning, my daughter called me nearly in tears…

Veterans Day is a day when, together, we pause to reflect on American Veterans—the country’s brave men and women who have served and sacrificed while wearing the uniforms of the nation, those…

During this turbulent, uncertain time in our everyday lives, we should always be giving thanks, to all the many – First Responders – for their dedicated and committed services – doctors, nurses,…

I wrote this back on Oct. 14, 2015. If Trump would not have won the election, we would now be living in misery, communism, and not free, or fighting a civil war….

Dear Ms, Publisher, The day of reckoning draws near In the balance hope and fear On the one side reasoned talk And then, the raging Jaberwock Desperate as a cornered beast lashing…

“Go back to Cuba, you Spick!”… Second grade all the way through high school. “Go back to where you came from, damn foreigner!!”…Patient I was trying to help on an ambulance call….

My nose was running like a faucet! I was in Europe and had come down with a cold like no other. Washcloth in hand, I went into a store to buy some…

I was born in Richmond Virginia eighty-six years ago and grew up a proud American. My ancestors came to Virginia in the early 1600s. They fought in all the wars, beginning with…

Mr. Beger’s rants in his letters would be more helpful if he quoted facts, if he denoted the source of his “information,” and if he even made good sense. I am sorry,…

With the passing of Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court, a conversation is taking place about her replacement. Mr. Biden has said he would replace her with a black female. Let’s…

ANTIFA’s primary focus is to create chaos. These people are killing black people and burning down their businesses and homes. At the Democratic Convention they said the pledge of allegiance and intentionally removed the…

A Democrat for which I’d vote for President, former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, when asked about gun control said “You control yours, and I’ll control mine.” Gov. Schweitzer of course is not…

The Jefferson Diaper Brigade distributed its first diapers in November 2016 and in four years has supplied 140,000 diapers to Jefferson County families in need. We are concluding this ministry due to…

When doing a data analysis, your analysis is only as good as the data you receive. A common phrase is garbage in, garbage out. The COVID-19 “crisis” is an excellent example of…

The Jefferson County Collection Facility needs to begin thinking outside of the box. Residents were requested to have stickers for their vehicles so the users could be monitored at the collection sites….

There will probably never again be such a glaring difference between presidential candidates, than in this coming election. In one corner is Donald J. Trump the champion of private sector job creation…

In Cuba, our phone conversations were monitored, as was our mail correspondence; both incoming and outgoing was opened and read. We also had to be careful of what we said in public,…

The definition of observation is “a remark, statement, or comment based on something one has seen, heard, or noticed.”    “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put…