Category: Opinion

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,…

Dear Editor, Maybe it is the water, or the lack of critical thinking on behalf of readers of The Standard, but I certainly have to wonder about Mr. Nelson’s claim of being a White Nationalist Christian, who says he has had an afterlife experience (see his letter in the Sept. 25 edition of The Standard). Perhaps someone can explain how a Christian can believe an entire race of dark skinned individuals are inferior, as White Nationalists do, and still claim to be Christian. This is not the first time I have seen this ideology reported in your newspaper. I believe…

Dear Editor, Snip and Tuck, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that raises the much-needed funds for spaying and neutering the pets of low-income veterans, low income seniors and anyone who otherwise can’t afford it. Why? After working with a local non-profit, I came to realize just how many dumped, abandoned, unwanted and abused dogs and cats there are that are filling our rescues and shelters. I felt that something really big needed to happen. Upon researching this problem to learn all I could, I found out that because of one unspayed cat, up to 120,000 kittens can be born…

Dear Editor, Has it ever occurred to many folks, that if not for ignorance run wild, the democraps would never be carrying on and doing the unthinkable things they’re doing related to perfectly good and required phone calls, etc. and the issues related to this scam of impeachment with the way they are handling it against President Trump? Look at it his way. The democraps realize the ignorance, indoctrination and stupidity of about 40-50% of the country knowing full well the vast majority of their supporters don’t have a clue and will fall for most anything. If not for the…

Dear Editor, Fifty-seven percent of late teenagers and millennials believe that socialism is the answer. That Medicare for all the green new deal, free college tuition, on and one, where does it end! This is for those of you who don’t believe that God exists, that religion isn’t relevant in our enlightened society. For many years my friends have urged me to write this. There is an afterlife, I’ve been there! I was a millennial once. When I was 22 I lived in Tigerd, Ore., my hometown. I’ve also lived in Eugene, Ore. I worked for a window washing company…