Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, In time of everything that plays into a society, that people judge people without actually talking to the people, and when children rule the household instead of the parents. My story is this. There is a man in a Kingman neighborhood that, when he was sitting on his front porch having a cigarette, because he doesn’t smoke in the house. And he was upset because his father was in the hospital in ICU. A neighbor kid rides his bike up to his house and yells at the man: “Are you a —- like your father?” The man just…

Dear Editor, Just read the letter from your reader about ignorance being a risk to our country, and I could not agree more. A couple of days ago, while on Stockton Hill Rd., I witnessed a Trump rally with a lady holding a sign saying, “The U.S. is a Christian nation”, and I had to wonder. Where was she educated? She should look up the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797 Article XI, “The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion …” Ignorance should have no place in society today with information so readily available…

Dear Editor, Well it is that semi-annual time of year when teacher/schools/education needs more money. (Daily Miner, June 13, 2019). “KUSD board approves special bond issue”. They don’t really know how much they want, maybe $18 million, naw $25 million, I know, let’s ask for $35 million. We can go out and pluck it off the money tree, called taxpayers. Schools are continually the most fiscally irresponsible government agency. Throwing money at a broken product does not fix it. Educational budgeting is comprised of spend it all now and ask for 10% more next year. Why suddenly has this amount…

EDITOR’S NOTE: There will be a meeting on Southwest/Amtrak in the Kingman City Council Chambers for city officials, chambers of commerce, tourism bureaus and economic development departments on Tuesday, Oct. 29 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Dear Editor, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief is one of your town’s public transportation lifelines.  Twice a day it stops, once on its way to Los Angeles and once on its way to Chicago. Last year Amtrak wanted to substitute the train with a bus from Dodge City to Albuquerque.  Under that plan, the train that stopped in your town would have been a Los Angeles-Albuquerque…

Dear Editor, In the latest Mohave County voter count, registered Republicans increased to 60,318, almost 50% of the record 125 thousand voters The October 1 totals by Voter Registration confirms the trend of increasing Republican Party registrations since January 2016. Less than four years ago, Republican registrations were under 45,000 voters; virtually unchanged since 2010, the result of cleaning voter rolls. County Recorder Kristi Blair has been outstanding at cleaning up the rolls. It’s outstanding we now exceed 60,000. By contrast, Democrat registration has decreased dramatically. Current Democrat registrations total 20,653; but that number was 40% higher in January 2011,…