Leader Call Letters to the Editor

Letter to the editor: Poor Planning

2012-02-04T21:58:00-06:00

Just one year ago a killing tornado flattened a great portion of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Many families in this stricken area still don’t have a place to live or call home.

Whose side is he on?

2012-01-29T10:24:10-06:00

Reader disagrees with assessment of Tebow

2012-01-22T10:15:54-06:00

Donations requested for local kidney patient

2012-01-17T07:00:00-06:00

To the Editor:
Mrs. Herticine Parkman is a kidney patient who has been battling with kidney failure for quite some time. Most of us have been blessed with the wealth of our health. With that being said we are asking for donations to help Mrs. Parkman with this process which has been very costly.

Letter to the editor: Sheriff Hodge opposes early release of murderer

2012-01-15T10:20:47-06:00

Please note my complete and total opposition to the early release of convicted murderer James Pugh who has an upcoming parole hearing before your Board.

DAFS says thanks for your support

2012-01-11T07:00:00-06:00

To the editor:
On behalf of the clients, staff and board of the Domestic Abuse Family Shelter, Inc., I want to thank all of you who have supported us throughout this past year.

Which side is Palazzo on?

2012-01-08T10:09:52-06:00

Constituent not happy with Palazzo

2012-01-04T07:00:00-06:00

To the editor:
A year ago we replaced Congressman Gene Taylor because he had thrown in with the liberal Democrats and Speaker Pelosi and was voting with them most of the time. We elected Steven Palazzo to replace him because he was the only one running against Taylor and we were hoping he would do a better job.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

2011-12-22T07:00:00-06:00

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

Athletics ‘dumbing down’ civilization

2011-12-14T07:00:00-06:00

To the editor:
We can but muse about the reported $254 million dollar contract recently awarded a professional baseball player! Contracts in excess of $100 million have seemingly become routine in all of professional athletics: football, basketball, golf and who knows what else these days. We are told “these amounts (being paid to what can best be labeled ‘a discretionary workforce within our society’) are actually well within what the market will bear” — just mostly from dollars generated by television networks out of advertising accounts.