‘Empathy with homebound’

May 5, 2020

Dear Editor, This corona virus crisis and the frustration and isolation we have endured, difficult as it is, does allow us an opportunity to identify more closely with some of the forgotten ones. I’m thinking of those who have endured loneliness and isolation because of age or long-term illness. A predicament which could await any one of us. We might also think of those isolated in prison or under house arrest. “Be mindful of prisoners as if sharing their imprisonment.” — Hebrews 13:3. Many of us, too, are lamenting the closure of our places of worship. Perhaps we ...

‘Sound judgement?’

May 5, 2020

Dear Editor, On a scale of sound judgment where do YOU put a person over 75 who gathers 100 people mostly above age 55 from across a continent to travel by air, car or train to one predominantly black city when technology would work to have national decision making continue?! Plus endanger each other, their staff, the general population and other workers? Karen Davis, Warren

Open county up

May 5, 2020

Dear Editor, Virus!!! I see where a commissioner wants green designation NOW! So let’s do it. We need to open Warren and Cameron Counties all the way up now. Isn’t it true that once counties get down to low numbers that they will get opened up? Well we are there now and have been for a long time. In fact, we have always been there. It is not fair to us to stay closed. I say let’s get the kids back in school by May 15, let them have their prom in the normal way, and the same goes for graduation. We should at least do that for the kids. I think it is safe for now for these ...

‘United We Stand, Divided We Fall’

May 2, 2020

Dear Editor, I have never been so worried about our nation as I have been these past weeks, not only because of the coronavirus, but also because of the division our country seems to be experiencing since Donald Trump was elected president. I believe that everyone has a right to his or her opinion and their right to express it; but in certain situations, we need to put our prejudice aside and stand united as a country (and give our full support to President Trump). I have to say that I am saddened by the blind hatred that many in this country have toward our duly-elected ...

What if…

April 30, 2020

Dear Editor, What if Bill Clinton didn’t start the depletion process of our military in the mid-90s? What if Bill and Hillary Clinton didn’t sell plutonium or uranium to the Russians? What if Bill Clinton would have stood by his words in the 1995 state of the union address about securing our borders and deporting the people that are in this country illegally? What if Hillary Clinton would have done her job and protected the US Embassy in Benghazi? What if John Kerry would have used at least one ounce of common sense when negotiating the nuclear arms deal with ...

Believe or not

April 30, 2020

Dear Editor, I never was a believer. But everyone has a choice. I’ve heard people say, ‘God has a reason for everything.’ Well, with this COVID-19 virus around the world killing thousands and thousands of people, I can’t believe what the reason would be. And, on the news, it says this winter the flu will be here along with the COVID virus again. Maybe we should send some more masks and ventilators to China in case they need them this winter; even if we don’t have enough. Lucille Lewis, Warren