Letters to the Editor

Editor: On behalf of the 2,500 family physician, family medicine resident, and medical student members of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians, I write to express concern over the actions of Congress on health reform.  Currently, the U.S. Senate is working on legislation, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), that could change the future of

Editor: It appears that our president knows how to use Twitter efficiently. He seems to be hurting  the mudstream media to some extent, for which I am thankful. I know that many in the mudstream media want to see President Trump banned from Twitter. If President Trump does not use social media to reach the

Editor, How excited I was to finally be able to attend a band concert in the Park Friday night and find a number of people attending.  We moved from Kansas City three years ago and find it refreshing to come to a community that still offers free events for us to enjoy. If you haven’t

Editor: With the many terror attacks that has occurred in the past few weeks, it boggles the mind to see the elected Donald Trump’s efforts to properly vet the Muslim people who wish to come into the United States of America. It is true that all Muslims are not terrorists but it is equally true

Editor: Recently, Kathy Griffin posed with the likeness of a decapitated head of Donald Trump and put it on social media. She received backlash from both conservatives and liberals. She now says that she is being bullied. Go figure. I kind of hope that these liberals continue doing what they do. I think people are

Editor: Once in a while we find the answer to a disturbing question like why do we have so many hungry children coming to school when we have so many people on food stamps? The answer was in the El Dorado Springs Sun last week when we see a woman in Nevada plead guilty and

Editor: I’m writing regarding the outrageous report on the front page of last week’s Sun about the woman arrested for receiving food stamps in exchange for meth. I’ll be honest, my first response was “Yes. You go girl.” I want the “rest of the story” now. Did the meth heads buying the drugs lose their

Editor: Groceries and Games. We all need the first one and most of us like to play the second. I don’t think that many of us like to be played for stupid when it comes to games but sometimes it comes out that way. Here in El Dorado Springs we have only one major food

Editor: Isn’t it funny that many of those that are seething mad over Comey’s firing are the same ones who wanted to see Comey fired only six months ago? Mark E. Rogers El Dorado Springs

Editor: We had the privilege of attending the Vietnam Wall ceremony is Stockton Saturday, May 13. The Wall was set up on the school’s football field facing the bleachers. It was a perfect setting with green grass in the foreground and numerous flags behind the Wall flying against the blue sky for the background. We