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Letters to the Editor

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 ...

Driver’s tests in the late 1950s

For driver’s education, most of us had straight-arrow, hard-line, strict-disciplinarian, cut-you-no-slack instructors. We learned everything in the book, such as all the hand signals, which we had to use on the road. Also, we learned with an on-the-column, below-the-steering-wheel stick ...

Big difference between being inconvenienced, rights infringed

EDITOR: I want to get my hair done, my eyebrows waxed, I need a pedicure, I miss getting a massage, I want my cleaning lady to come back and help me wash the windows and screens, I want to go to the Tap Room on Fridays at 5:05 p.m. and see my friends and then go out to dinner. To quote a ...

Convinced crimes were committed

President Richard Nixon resigned before he was impeached because he covered up a plan to steal the opposing parties’ campaign plans. The scandal was named Watergate. The Democratic party, with the full knowledge of former President Barack Obama, used its surveillance tools to spy on the Trump ...

Reflect on those in law enforcement who made the ‘ultimate sacrifice’

National Police Week is May 10 through 16. In a normal year, there would be numerous Law Enforcement memorial services or events all across this nation. This, of course, is far from a normal year. Events of this nature are being cancelled, including our local annual observation. It is ...