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Letters to the Editor

Doing something about COVID-19

Here I am again and this time with some fun for you. Picture a Democrat, a Republican and an Independent all jumping off a cliff together. Oh! They all crashed on the rocks below. Now why did that happen? Well, science is real and there is where we can find our answer. It was gravity that ...

Can’t turn away from injustice, intolerance

The murder of George Floyd by police officers calls for justice. Pope Francis at his general audience June 3 said, “Dear brothers and sisters in the United States, I have witnessed with great concern the disturbing social unrest in your nation in these past days, following the tragic death of ...

‘This should be the norm’

Recently, during the Louisville, Kentucky, protests, a white police officer, Galen Hinshaw, found himself isolated among the protesters who were becoming hostile. It became a very dangerous situation, as the officer admitted that he would not have been able to defend himself without getting ...

Pandemic has disproportionate effect on women

We have all felt the immediate effects on our lives and the lives of our loved ones during this pandemic. Even though we are all in this together, our lives have been and will be affected differently in the post-pandemic world. In 1918, the Spanish flu disproportionally affected young men. ...

Time to wake up about Trump

“He brings the Bible, holds it high, puts it down, lies.” Remember those inspirational words now-President Donald Trump spoke, mocking U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz while he campaigned for the office of president? The base loved it. He was telling the established “political elites” like it was. ...

On racial issues, will we ever manage to learn from our past?

Will this country learn? I ask that question because the foundations of the present violence appear to me the same as the Chicago riots, and the Los Angeles riots. A majority white nation where all the power centers such as political legislators, civilian powers brokers, economic powers ...