Category Archives: Letters to the Editor
Give resounding no to school vouchers
February 26, 2017, Arizona Daily Sun Senator Debbie Lesko’s proposed SB 1431 sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare and detrimental to public education. I am opposed to school vouchers for many reasons. According to an article in the Arizona Daily Sun (February 16, 2017), vouchers would cost “tens of millions.” The state would be spending an […]
Continue readingConservatives Want Freedom From Responsibility
I just listened to a broadcast featuring a scholar from the American Enterprise Institute, one of the Koch-funded think tanks like Arizona’s Goldwater Institute and various ASU free market institutes. On this broadcast, the scholar claimed that the U.S. is protected from potential Fascism thanks to the conviction and dogma of a conservatism that preaches […]
Continue readingVote for City Elections in November
Published in the Arizona Daily Sun, August 30, 2015 To the editor: This fall a ballot will arrive in your mailbox. On it is a series of questions regarding the city charter. Questions 3 and 4 concern the timing of local elections. Question 3 asks if you think local elections should take place in the […]
Continue readingNews from the Rim Democrats 12/14/13
BRAYINGS December 14 , 2013 A Newsletter for Democrats and friends in Northern Gila County, and for all who advocate for the common good by promoting economic, social and environmental justice.Feel free to copy and share this newsletter with your friends. 1. ACA/OBAMACARE SLOWS RATE OF HEALTH CARE COSTS. According to a report in the […]
Continue readingSomething to be thankful for
I’ve always had trepidations about the future of my health. My parents have owned a small business my whole life and without the availability of affordable health care prior to ACA, I knew that I simply could not get sick and I could not break anything, ever. End of story. We’d be up a creek […]
Continue readingThe Real Problem with the IRS
One charge to the IRS is to screen applications by groups for a special tax-exempt status coupled with donor anonymity. This is done within the IRS by civil servants working with lawyers who interpret the murky laws on criteria for this special tax exempt status. Working under 30 years of budget cuts and outdated computing […]
Continue readingI Wish We All Voted
I WISH WE ALL VOTED Ken Rumery 10/24/12 I wish we all voted, like the citizens of Iraq, smiling proudly, showing purpled fingers, risking danger for the right to have their say. I wish we took our democracy to heart, a power that expands from all of us, that grows from the bottom up like […]
Continue readingHow Can Women back GOP?
To the editor: MIKE DAIGLE Flagstaff I am continually amazed by the number of women who not only support the Republican agenda but speak out for it. My first political awakening came during my college years (mid-1960s). Growing up and living in the deep South, the racial equality movement was a life-changing experience. During […]
Continue readingFred Eder Letter
Dear Senator McCain, My name is Fred Eder. I just left you a voice mail, but I wanted to take the time to make my case a bit more clearly. My mother is nearly 81 years old. She spent her life as a public school teacher. She helped raise not only my brother, my sister, […]
Continue reading“Mexican American History: A Patriotic History”
By Salomón Baldenegro, Sr. Originally published in Latinovations “La Plaza” In Tea Party Republican Arizona, teaching Mexican American history is illegal because that history is purportedly “un-American” and foments the “overthrow of the government.” The shamelessness of people who rally under the Confederate flag-a flag of treason, whose adherents renounced their U.S. citizenship, declared […]
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