Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, For many, many years the mental image of an ostrich with its head buried in the sand has illustrated the mindset of people who flatly refuse to look at any uncomfortable reality. Their thinking seems to be that “If I can’t see it, it can’t be happening”. I recently had a conversation with a sweet lady who told me she didn’t want to even think about a particular upcoming reality. She said very forcefully “I don’t want to think about it”. She got more than a bit miffed at me when I told her that whether she liked…

Dear Editor, Plastic pollutes our world gathering in ocean garbage patches with the largest: Great Pacific Patch, is twice the size of Texas. There are two other slightly smaller Pacific patches. Patches have 1.8 trillion floating plastic pieces, approximately 250 pieces per person; equivalence of a truckload of plastic dumped in the ocean each minute, gigantic monuments to today’s modern world. Dead beached whales, found with plastic in their stomachs causing their deaths have been found like: pregnant whale with 50 pounds of plastic; whale with 88 pounds of plastic; whale with 200 pounds of plastic. Global population is 7.8…

A Short Story By Jack Mint She takes one glance over her shoulder before she ducks into the alleyway. Her coat tails are the last wisp of red the camera catches. Her heart beats as loud as the echo of her boots but she doesn’t look back anymore. Because there is no turning back now and no reason to look back when so much change awaits the day. A man in the street she left reaches into the trashcan and fishes out her phone, the one she smashed with her boot. He presses a finger to his ear and walks…

Dear Editor, If my son gets hurt playing basketball because I put the basketball hoop in the street, is the City of Kingman liable for his injury? Since code enforcement allows it there, can I use it there or is it a law that says that I can’t put it in the street, because I did. It turns out to be beneficial because then no one can park in front of my house. It’s on a public street that is maintained by the city. Do I have to remove it due to insurance reasons? Until someone tells me that I…

A few days ago, in an idle moment, I watched the highway traffic from my front porch. There was the usual mix of traffic, but as I watched carefully and began to pay closer attention, I was struck by the amazing number of trucks on the road. That casual observation brought me to do a very informal count of the number of highway freight trucks passing my vantage point. I arbitrarily chose to count twenty five passing trucks (including both directions) and then check the time required for that number. The number of minutes for that count was six minutes….

A few days ago, in an idle moment, I watched the highway traffic from my front porch. There was the usual mix of traffic, but as I watched carefully and began to pay closer attention, I was struck by the amazing number of trucks on the road. That casual observation brought me to do a very informal count of the number of highway freight trucks passing my vantage point. I arbitrarily chose to count twenty five passing trucks (including both directions) and then check the time required for that number. The number of minutes for that count was six minutes….