Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, Feeling like you have some control over your life is vital for life happiness.  Control is not always easy. It takes planning, sacrifice, work and good fortune.  Lots of things can happen in life that will shake the earth beneath our feet. Illness, weather disaster, a bad accident, and stupid mistakes. We are all vulnerable to any and all of these.  Considering anything can happen in life and chances are it will, we can all still make an effort to be in control of our daily lives.  First, know who you are and build on who you are….

Dear Editor, We write you as the local chapter of the largest national organization fighting for women’s rights since 1966. We are extremely concerned about your comments regarding women being promiscuous and your recommendation to use aspirin for birth control. Data from the 2017– 2019 National Survey of Family Growth show that 65% of women in the U.S. are currently using contraception. The most common types were sterilization, pills, long-acting reversible, and condoms. National Center for Health Statistics showed that 78% of females and 89% of males who had sexual intercourse before age 20 used a contraceptive method at first…

Dear Editor, Just read your article in the opinion section of The Standard Wednesday, March 20, 2024. You have a right to your opinion under the 1st Amendment of the Bill of Rights written into the United States Constitution. So here is my opinion: After every yearly State of the Union Address the political party not in the White House gives a rebuttal to the President’s speech from their party’s perspective. To insult Katie Britt’s rebuttal because she is a Mom and conservative is a weak reason. It’s the quality of content that matters! You say you ” fact checked…

Dear Editor, Mr. Mollette’s piece in the March 13 edition of The Standard about the diminished size of your Snicker bar fails to mention one little fact, and that is how wages have risen substantially over the years. Yes, time was when you could buy a car for a couple of thousand dollars and a house for $20,000, give or take. Like most conservative republicans, Mr. Mollette wants to lay blame on President Joe Biden. Think about it, if producers of goods want to raise prices and we are willing to buy at those prices, who can we blame? For…

Dear Editor, As a Kingman resident everywhere I go I see men and women, young and old who identify in some way as being Military Veterans. I have come to learn that Mohave County has more veterans than any other County in the U.S. Almost 4 times as many, numbering over 23 thousand, comprising no less than 13 %of our population. I do a fair amount of reading and research and am always deeply disturbed when I read about the ongoing suicide rate of American Military Veterans, sometimes as high as 22 a day. Too many patriotic American heroes come…

Dear Editor, Kingman was founded in 1882 as an Atlantic and Pacific Railroad town. It was christened as the Mohave County seat in 1887. Kingman has an interesting history, known as a historic railroad town named after railroad surveyor Lewis Kingman. In its early days, via the railroad, Kingman was an important supply and shipping center for miners and ranchers. As a candidate for Kingman City Council, I was interested in a recent agenda item to purchase a 25-foot-tall “Waving Cowboy” made of fiberglass to further enhance Old Downtown Kingman. I think the item is still up for some discussion…