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Literacy is critical to success in life, and children who have books and other reading materials available in their homes are better readers and often more successful in school than children who do...
DATE: Dec. 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Why the Michael Browns matter to me: Because we are all on this planet together. Families, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends are all grieving. And yes, some are angry. Understandably....
DATE: Dec. 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am saddened by the reaction that three women, who are highlighting a possible injustice in Ferguson by holding signs, has received in the letters to the editor. A young black man was doing no...
DATE: Dec. 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – It is probably too soon to declare a feminist reformation, but a few signs here and there give one hope. Hold it, sirs, don’t stop reading yet. I realize that seeing the F-word in...
DATE: Dec. 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In October our home was broken into. We were out of town at the time, and our neighbors discovered that we had been burglarized. It’s hard to describe how we felt. We walked into our home that is...
DATE: Dec. 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I think it’s time that we remember the work our law enforcement does, and stop seeing criminals and drug addicts as victims. I don’t think people realize what it is to put on your work uniform and...
DATE: Dec. 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – The great oil bust of 2014 is something to behold. Since mid-June, crude prices have dropped about 40 percent, from $115 a barrel for the Brent benchmark to about $70 a barrel now. ...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I felt I must reply to Catherine Spencer’s letter (Journal, Dec. 5) concerning the Michael Brown incident. She seems to be well informed on the facts of Brown’s family life and although not...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Well here we go again — I recognized the protesters at Colorado Highways 145 and 184. A similar group was on the Golden Gate Bridge in 1969 welcoming us back from Vietnam. Regardless of our view of...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am writing in response to “Ferguson grand jury protest lands In Dolores,” (Journal, Dec. 2). While I respect Maggie Cooper’s lessons to her daughters about voicing their grievances in regard to...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Why are you so quick to criticize John Boehner for gridlock in Congress and the Internet sales tax (Journal, Nov. 18) ? I have not once seen the Journal criticize Harry Reid for the hundreds of...
DATE: Dec. 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – As the curtain closes on the latest episode of “Ferguson,” the media series, it is fair to wonder whether events might not have spiraled out of control to the extent they did had the...
DATE: Dec. 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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