Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, As we slide toward Socialism, I want you to remember something. Something your new history books have taken away. “D Day.” When many free nations invaded Hitler’s Europe, the national Socialist Democratic Party, to free all the countries Germany had enslaved. It started on the beaches of France where over 5,000 freedom loving Americans and others died. Frenchmen, British, and others left their blood on the sands there. Then “Market Garden” and the “Battle of the Bulge.” The taking of the Seigfried line. Then earlier the Battle of Britain, North Africa, Sicily, then Italy – the Mediterranean, other…

Dear Editor,

 Regardless our life upbringing we are free to choose who we are and who we want to become. 
I was raised in Italy in a family where unfortunately domestic violence was a multigenerational factor. I have witnessed both my grandfathers, using physical violence against my grandmothers, but the most disturbing reality I had to face as a child was my father, repeating the same pattern of violence on my mother. 
I don’t want to go into the gory details of how many times my mother was sent to the hospital for consequences of my father’s violence, or how many…

The clock has run out. You can never get justice for what’s been done to you if you waited too long. In Arizona, a victim of sexual assault has only two years to file a civil lawsuit against their perpetrator – two years from the age of majority for a child who has been sexually assaulted, or two years from the date of the sexual assault if the victim was an adult. As such, pedophiles and rapists don’t need to silence their victims forever. They simply need to wait out their victim a paltry two years. What this means practically…

Dear Editor: Now that incorporation has been put to bed for a two year nap, here are some observations: First of all, I am writing this as a private citizen, who has lived in Laughlin since December, 2007. Praised to you who took the time to read and study SB-213 and AB-389 which offered two different approaches, so that you would know what was in the bills and what was not in them. Thus you could make your decision with truthful information, and did not have to depend on rumors or half-truths. Shame on you if you didn’t read and…

In his second epistle to believers suffering under severe persecution, the apostle Peter wrote concerning trials that result in our spiritual growth and development. He said, “And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you are neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:5-8)                 As I give careful consideration the…

Dear Editor, President Trump has taken a historic step to reduce risk on the Colorado River by signing bipartisan legislation authorizing the Department of the Interior to implement Drought Contingency Plans in the Upper and Lower Basins of the Colorado River. This action supports agriculture and protects the water supplies for 40 million people.  The Colorado River is the single most important water resource in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. All levels of government stepped up to address the Basin’s worst drought in recorded history.  We’ve seen collaborative efforts among the seven Basin states, local water agencies, Tribes,…