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Food for thought

Food for thought, when retroactive intellectual take aways become a real take away from the community: During the last few months in Mohave County under pandemic stay home guidelines, other than home-cooking, fast food and drive through food was all the people of Kingman could take away. Today Sunday morning June 7, 2020 the food for thought of 99% of Kingman’s population, is what can they take away from the long week of BLM protests staged at Railroad Park. The Sunday morning front page of the Kingman Miner has some fast food for thought prepared by the protest organizers being…

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ER visitor expresses gratitude

For the past several years, I have been a volunteer at Kingman Regional Medical Center and it has been very rewarding. Recently though I have had some health issues which required several trips to the Emergency Department. Kingman should be proud to have such a fine hospital and excellent ED. I’m grateful to everyone for the wonderful care I received and especially nurse first Bonnie, phlebotomist Jovie, EKG Tech Karl, LNAs Anthony and Dora, PA Wyatt, RNs Owen and Lauren, and the amazing Richard Henderson, MD. Hopefully I am on the path to good health once again and can soon…

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George Floyd, protestor violence – how to solve all this Dear Editor,

The death of George Floyd at the hands of police should never have happened.  It was murder and a dark moment in America. The looting, terrorism and burning of American cities by so called protestors is criminal and a dark moment in America. The Minneapolis police officers involved in Floyd’s death must be held accountable. The criminals involved in wrecking American cities, robbing and burning businesses must be held accountable.  Americans have the right to free speech. Free speech does not mean destroying property, hurting police officers and criminal activities.  The question many Americans are asking today is who is funding…

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How are you using your words?

As our nation goes through these times of tribulation and turmoil, I am reminded of “words”. Words are powerful, if used correctly. To many times we say things that devastate someone’s hope and dreams with what they say. Recently, I was grocery shopping and overheard this conversation, “Can you help me sanitize these carts please?” Answer: “No, that’s not in my job description”. I couldn’t help but ask, “Why not? Don’t you work here too?” This person seemed nice and she was young too but I couldn’t help but be a little turned off and her niceness disappeared. All I…

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