Dear Editor, Bruce Cockburn wrote a song, “If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?” And it’s true today. In Genesis, God created the earth and said it was good. That means cutting down most of the trees in the Allegheny National Forest is a sneaky plan by the Forest ...

Dear Editor, Ignorance is bliss. Worse, organized ignorance, is dangerous in current times. Why? Joe Biden for president. How? A tectonic faiure of public education dumbing down America. Scandalous decades of taxpayers throwing good money after bad — with no accoutability Biden — ...

Dear Editor, First, just a reaction. Recently, a reader expressed discontent that letter writers should be limited to once a month. I disagree. It is a modest restriction and without it, those like myself who delight in pounding opinions into the keyboard would bore the public even more ...

Dear Editor, Voting is not as important as it used to be. Years ago it was effective, but not anymore. I listened to a DVD featuring the late George Carlin explaining why he does not vote. I think he has good reasoning. He states that most politicians do things wrong and screw things up. ...

Meddling president Dear Editor, President Donald Trump does not want us to be able to vote safely in the national election on Nov. 3 because he thinks mail-in voting will result in his defeat. To this end, he is interfering with the delivery of the mail by the U.S. Postal Service. He wants ...

What’s in a promise? Dear Editor, Sometimes while traveling thought town, I see signs saying, “Promises Made, Promises Kept” and I wonder just what promises were made and kept. So I researched it and found there were more than 100 promises made but few kept. A sampling: ¯ Better ...