Category: letters

Dear Editor,
 
    Has Hwy. 90 turned into a mission to the moon? Between people trying to make money off the project, to encroaching on downtown businesses with the project, you want to compli…

There has been a lot of opinions in the paper about the school bus drivers wanting a union. All the opinions I’ve seen seem to be negative. I would like to say I’m in favor of them having a union and…

Dear Editor,
           
For many years of so-called studies, wasteful spending of money, now there’s talk of destroying much of downtown Milton by widening Highway 90. To those of us who love …

Dear Editor,
 
Last Tuesday Milton lay to rest one of its stellar residents, Mr. Ed Peacher. When I first took over Milton Benevolent Cemetery some dozen years ago, it was Mr. Peacher who spear…

Environmental groups complain dollars to buy conservation land have been drastically cut since 2009.  But, to anyone paying attention, state revenues dropped drastically because of a horrible recessi…

Dear Editor,
 
Watching the news Sunday morning I saw where a second person in as many days had again jumped the Whitehouse fence. They also reported the individual would appear in court on Mon…

Dear Editor,
 
I believe the public’s interest in voter turnout could be improved if more information was easily accessible regarding the candidates. Presently, all we see are the campaign ‘lit…

Dear Editor,
When it's election season, distributive politics — those that focus on how the pie gets divided, versus how the pie get baked in the first place — tend to bubble up to the top of th…

Dear Editor,
 
Barack Obama's speech Wednesday night and the Fox special with surviving Benghazi CIA security contractors offered an insight to the man that is our President. In his recent spee…

Dear Editor,
 
A long-active Christian group (Inter-Varsity Fellowship) was de-recognized by the
system because the organization's rules required their leader to be a Christian. 
One stud…