Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, Now is the time to develop your plan for avoiding a blue holiday season and having a merry holiday season. I love Elvis’ song Blue Christmas, but I don’t want to have one. However, In the best of times holiday blues strike most people. If you are missing a significant person in your life the blues are inevitable. You miss them sitting at your table. You miss them coming in your home. You are reminded of how much that person meant to you. Holiday shows don’t often help. While some are festive, they often remind us of the…

Dear Editor, Now is the time to develop your plan for avoiding a blue holiday season and having a merry holiday season. I love Elvis’ song Blue Christmas, but I don’t want to have one. However, In the best of times holiday blues strike most people. If you are missing a significant person in your life the blues are inevitable. You miss them sitting at your table. You miss them coming in your home. You are reminded of how much that person meant to you. Holiday shows don’t often help. While some are festive, they often remind us of the…

Dear Editor, If you disagree with what I am about to write, you can throw it away or swear at me. If you agree, please forward this to all your contacts. I believe this subject is critical to us as individuals, but more importantly, to our country. I have written on this subject before, but now our daily paper will no longer print my writings because they “promote hatred and dissent”. There can no longer be any doubt whatsoever, in anyone’s mind, that the far left wing of what used to be the Democrat Party has shed all their cloaks…

Dear Editor, Now that the conspiracy theories about the election have been thoroughly debunked, one would think the conservative republicans moaning, groaning and sniveling should subside. Donald J. Trump may honestly add loser to his already stellar curriculum vitae. It remains amazing, even incomprehensible to me, how people prefer to obtain their news from social media or other questionable sources. The adherents believe the dubious information, without bothering to investigate. Yet they will doubt, even condemn as false, credible sources of proven facts from individuals who have spent years educating themselves studying the issues. Thanks to letters written to and…

Dear Editor, Halloween night was anything but hollow. Once again, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office POP (Public Outreach Program) hosted the 3rd annual Candy Crawl. This event provides a safe and fun filled environment for families to enjoy the traditions of trick or treating on Halloween night. The annual event was on the verge of being cancelled this year due to the COVID pandemic and constraints, however, the event organizers were bound and determined to offer a safe environment for families to get out and enjoy a night of fun and entertainment. The response was astounding as an estimated 5,000…