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Letters to the Editor

Note of gratitude and a challenge for the future

As I step down from my position as county commissioner after 12 years of service, I find myself reflecting on the incredible journey we have shared. Serving our community has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Together, this county board has navigated challenges and ...

Letter raises questions to Postmaster General DeJoy

On Thursday, U.S. Reps. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., and Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., led a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, chastising the United States Postal Service for lowering its delivery standards for Fiscal Year 2025. The bipartisan letter was signed by eight members, who stressed ...

A fork in the road for the US

EDITOR: What road did our country choose in November? Robert Frost in a poem wrote “Two roads diverged in the woods …” One road was well traveled and the other not. It seems to me that the country took the one that has been much more frequently used. History tells us that the country ...

Taking the high road

Nothing worthwhile is easy in life and that includes our response to difficult situations, whether it be personal relationships, work, etc. ... No matter if insulted or unjustly treated in some other manner, our reply can determine how detrimental the effect of the situation is on us as human ...

Are we a nation in decline?

Was this election an indication of a nation on a hill? I would answer that by looking at how the national values, honesty, and economic decisions that strive to keep a nation strong, and benefit all its people by lifting up those groups that greed and capitalism harms, elects honest leadership, ...

Hoping the best for Trump

EDITOR: I sat this election out for the simple reason I didn’t like the policies of Kamala Harris and do not care for Donald Trump as a person. Now that Trump has been elected, my hope is he becomes the best president in the history of the country, for the simple reason we as a country ...