Letters to the Editor

Editor: This past week, Governor Parson held the first ever Rural Health Care Summit in Bolivar. The purpose of this summit was to call attention to the increasing decline of rural healthcare access and choice. In his address, he stated in the past four years, six counties have closed their county hospitals. Osceola and Mt.

The essay written by Marcia Abbott last week was for Cedar County Memorial Hospital’s “My Hospital, My Community” contest. It was not intended to be a Letter to the Editor.

Editor: The Sun Newspaper published an article and inserted it on Page 4 of the issue last week and in my opinion it should have been on the front page due to the serious nature of the story. A number of health organizations oppose the three medical marijuana ballot measures we will vote on November

Have you heard about Clean Missouri?  What they are talking about is Constitutional Amendment No.1. The first section of that amendment reads, ”change process and criteria for redrawing state legislative districts during reapportionment.”        Currently, the state’s legislative districts are reapportioned every 10 years at census time because of shifts in the population

Editor: Sunday night past during the 60 Minutes interview with President Trump the network ran several of Clair McCaskill commercials and she told of having 50 small town meetings with Missouri residents and lo and behold some were in our area and I never heard of a darn one for I would like to have

Editor: I really think that the Democrat Party has run out of ideas. Ever since Donald Trump took office, and even before that, the Democrats seem to be in attack mode. After her loss, Hillary Clinton stated that we need to resist, desist, persist, and enlist. More recently, she stated “You cannot be civil with

Editor: After watching the “Democrat Dog and Pony Show” that made up the confirmation process for judge Brett Kavanaugh, it should be very plain to everyone with an ounce of brains or commons sense that the coming mid-term elections are the most important elections in our lifetime. This is not about one party being superior

Editor: An initiative called “Clean Missouri* will be on the November ballot. It’s promoted as ethics reform that will “clean up Jefferson City,” but that’s just the front…      In reality, Clean Missouri is a far-left push to redistrict the state, leaving the process to our state auditor. That means a political office will

Editor: I have known for a long time that there was an ugly under-bell of the Democratic Party but we didn’t see just how ugly it was until President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the United States Supreme Court and we saw the hate mongers come out in droves to attack him. When in