Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, The recent action by the BOS to oppose the already approved creation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument and spend county tax dollars to mount a legal challenge against it ignores the decades of work by our Indigenous brothers and sisters to secure protections for this existing federal land and ignores our current county budget deficit, but it does support the Arizona Republican Party’s efforts against the Biden Administration. The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects and preserves the rich cultural, ecological, historic, and…

Dear Editor, Valentine’s day is coming soon and you better go to the store today if you want a cheap box of candy! A pharmacist friend recalled a man coming into his store late on Valentine’s Day a couple of years back. He only one big box of candy left that sold for over $50. The man looked the shelves over but there wasn’t a more reasonable box of candy to be found in the store. He continued to eye the candy and finally paid for it and left the store. The pharmacist remembered that his cheaper boxes of candy…

Dear Editor, Valentine’s day is coming soon and you better go to the store today if you want a cheap box of candy! A pharmacist friend recalled a man coming into his store late on Valentine’s Day a couple of years back. He only one big box of candy left that sold for over $50. The man looked the shelves over but there wasn’t a more reasonable box of candy to be found in the store. He continued to eye the candy and finally paid for it and left the store. The pharmacist remembered that his cheaper boxes of candy…

Dear Editor, Don Martin’s rebuttal to my letter in The Standard newspaper reminds me of a person who was caught with their hand in the preverbal “cookie jar of true facts.” His personal attack on me was published on Wednesday January 31, 2024 in response to my letter to the editor regarding BLM’s inhumane method of utilizing helicopters. Instead of debating the facts, he went on to attack me by making allegations and innuendos that were not true. He inferred I was the de facto campaign manager for Jennifer Esposito and that can be no further from the truth. The…

Dear Editor, There is a storm brewing in SoHi Estates, a small, quiet community six miles northwest of Kingman. The cause? Angry residents here are up in arms about a proposed airplane landing field being slated for construction in a location that will have planes flying at very low altitudes and low speeds directly over numerous private homes. The developer of this impending disaster plans to build this runway atop a hogback ridge in a canyon that offers three steep opposing mountainside faces in dangerous proximity to any expected flight activity. Couple that with the erratic winds that plague this…

Dear Editor, There is a storm brewing in SoHi Estates, a small, quiet community six miles northwest of Kingman. The cause? Angry residents here are up in arms about a proposed airplane landing field being slated for construction in a location that will have planes flying at very low altitudes and low speeds directly over numerous private homes. The developer of this impending disaster plans to build this runway atop a hogback ridge in a canyon that offers three steep opposing mountainside faces in dangerous proximity to any expected flight activity. Couple that with the erratic winds that plague this…