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…
Category: opinion
Speak Out October 4
Monday 7:19 p.m.
Hey, this is Dennis Dean. I’m amazed at how little news coverage there’s been of the woman beheaded by a Muslim in Moore, Oklahoma. Who was the woman? What color was the woman? No…
Speak Out October 1
Thursday 7:35 p.m.
Yes this is for Helen from New York. Helen, I just got back from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York and your roads up there are just as bad as ours once you get out of the c…
Do Statistical Disparities Mean Injustice?
How many times have we heard laments such as "women are 50 percent of the population but only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs" and, as the Justice Department recently found, "blacks are 54 percent of t…
School personnel should have union
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…
Northern route of Highway 90 best option
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 …
Speak Out September 27
Monday 3:09 p.m.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak whatever’s on my mind. I’d like to say that the greedy lawyers are at it again trying to keep robbing BP for money and got people standing i…
Milton lost a friend, Ed Peacher
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…
Iraq: The Closest Obama’s Been to Being Right— Until Now
By Ron Hart
Obama has not been particularly engaged in Iraq. He concluded that he is so likable that people in the media heap massive kudos on him for anything he does. Why shouldn’t terrori…
Amendment 1: 20 years of taxation without representation
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…