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Letters To The Editor

Who benefits and who doesn’t

Let’s do a tally of developments and trends so far in the current Trump administration. Simple math. What’s being enlarged and what’s being diminished. Extended commentary is unnecessary. The list speaks for itself. First, what’s being enlarged? That’s easy. • Wealth to the ...

Stop the cuts

While President Trump and his allies continue to justify their economic policies as necessary to address the national debt and deficit, they simultaneously support a budget projected by the Congressional Budget Office to increase the deficit by an estimated $6 trillion. Why? To fund Trump’s ...

No kings in 1776 and no kings today

Will you join me, and millions of other patriotic Americans, in a protest for democracy, and against tyranny, by peacefully demonstrating in the streets, on Saturday, June 14, Flag Day, for the “No Kings” mass protest? Ordinary people “NO” to the King of England in the Revolutionary ...

Citizen’s choice

If you don’t know about Zion National Park’s Angels Landing hike, do a search. To me the narrow path represents democracy’s journey and steel safety chain represents our Constitution, with one slip you plunge into either extreme left or right authoritarianism. After Soviet Union ...

What’s right and wrong

Congress says big cuts are needed. Where can we save money? What can we do without? And I wonder, where do we get more income? Big program cuts are only needed because Congress wants to cut government income by extending / expanding huge tax cuts for corporations and top income earners. ...

Who cares about whom?

Congress is considering a bill that would cut millions of dollars from Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and the Veterans Administration health services. President Trump, U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, and others want us to think this is cutting “waste, fraud and ...