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Pastor Adam Hamilton: Decency won on Nov. 3

To the Journal editor: “Decency won on Nov. 3.” Those words capture the remarkable victory of Rev. Adam Hamilton, a prominent Kansas Methodist pastor and political newcomer, who defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall in one of the most surprising election results of 2026. Hamilton, a moderate Democrat making his first run for public office, accomplished something that had eluded Kansas Democrats for 94 years. The last Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Kansas was in 1932, during the Great Depression. Hamilton is the founding pastor of the Church of the ...

Election reflections

To the Journal editor: Some thoughts on the recent midterm elections: The obvious one is that of the widespread repudiation of Donald Trump and his enabling sycophants in the dwindling MAGA movement. The majority of Americans realized that the populist appeal of his incompetent, bigoted, vulgar, simple/symbol-minded "governing" has failed to support democracy as clearly outlined in the Constitution. The election results clearly show that the majority of our citizens value Diversity in our national demographics. The new Congress will be much more diverse in race, religious and ethnic ...

CO2 levels in atmosphere rising

To the Journal editor: For most of our Earth’s history, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have ranged between 180 and 280 parts per million. When CO2 levels where around 280 parts per million, the corresponding Earth temperature could sustain life. When CO2 levels where around 180 parts per million were times of ice ages. For the first time in the history of Earth, CO2 reached 300 ppm in 1950. Today CO2 levels have reached 425 PPM. A 42% increase in just 75 years! An unheard-of rate of change to a level our world has never experienced. Carbon dioxide in the Earth’s ...

Senator-elect El-Sayed prevails despite false attacks

To the Journal editor: Some weeks ago, The Mining Journal made the decision to stop publishing political Letters to the Editor in the run-up to the midterm election. I support this decision. With that in mind, I was very disappointed to see a political “cartoon” on the Opinion page of the Journal on Nov. 3 (Election Day). This “cartoon” featured a caricature of U.S. senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed that could only be described as, at best, a negative stereotype of an Arab person and at worst a racist attack. The “cartoon” implied the El-Sayed was somehow associated with ...

Dems have opportunity

To the Journal editor: Democrats have been entrusted with a unique opportunity to give life to the promises that persuaded voters to put them in charge of both houses of Congress. They should not be distracted by a desire for revenge, nor is it necessary to dwell at length on exposing corruption, much of which occurred in plain view. Legislation should be directed at lowering the cost of health care, housing and education, shifting the tax burden from middle and working class families to wealthy corporations and the super rich and getting dark money out of politics. The threat of ...

New fourth branch of government?

To the Journal editor: For centuries, the concept of equality and due process had been slowly emerging within the world’s oppressed peoples, yet it took bold action by our Founders to make freedom and equality a reality, thus American democracy was born. They proceeded to create a Constitution, not carved in stone but one malleable for future generations to refine, since none of them believed they created the end-all-be-all constitutional structure. Yes, our Constitution is extremely difficult to modify for good reasons, but when underlining flaws are hacked to abuse power, it’s ...