Letters

What is woke? Recently, a Daily Courier reader described the term “woke” as being “aware,” yet others consider it the political mainstreaming of racism and perversion.

I was disturbed by the March 16 article in the Courier about camping on public property. My husband and I moved here almost three years ago, as “California refugees.”

My husband succumbed to pancreatic cancer in February. Throughout our 55 years together, he was fit and exercised daily. His mind was sharp and he read voraciously. In September, unexpected pain led him to the doctor. ...

Only wish this letter would be considered superfluous and thus not published because by now Congress would have passed an increase in the debt ceiling or a suspension, or ideally as I mentioned in a previous letter, abolished the debt ceiling. But as of March 21, no such luck.

In the course of live trapping and relocating pack rats where they can’t cause damage to vehicles and so on, I have learned to my dismay that it is common practice to distribute poison as a control method.

In a recent “Rants & Raves,” someone stated: “Thank you, President Biden for lowering gas prices.” I believe that is a totally ridiculous statement.

I think it is important to distinguish between the proposed lowering of the EPA Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) to 4ppt from the unchanged EPA Health Advisory Level (HAL) of .004 ppt PFAS contamination in our Prescott drinking water.

I’m often asked about my work in hospice, which many people misunderstand if they’re aware of it at all.

School vouchers versus public education. Apparently Idaho is considering a similar plan, allegedly for school choice and to improve education results, and their plan is based almost verbatim on what is here in Arizona.

I would like to thank Courier columnist Kelly Kading for writing an excellent “Science & Sense: Energy” column on the pros and cons of using coal as an energy source, published on March 5.

The Arizona Legislature wants to reduce the length of time an individual may collect unemployment benefits because there are so many jobs available.

The Daily Courier exhibited journalistic integrity in action when they published K. Greg Murray’s rebuttal to Courier columnist Kelly Kading’s Feb. 5 column demeaning what he refers to as activist “soft” pseudoscience.

Rep. Selina Bliss is wrong. She is the sponsor of HB 2332, which would mandate gun safety training for grades 6-12.

To increase the passenger numbers to use the wonderful new terminal at Prescott, the airport authority needs to do the following, in my opinion.

I read several times the side-by-side columns in the Feb. 12 Daily Courier (where Anthony Torres and Pam Kehaly blamed each other’s organizations for the current Dignity/Blues impasse) and each time I came away simply confused.

In reply to Glenn Miller’s letter about the debt ceiling, my recollection of the film wasn’t crashing into each other but driving them off a cliff, the last one to bail out was the winner!

There was a James Dean film in the ’50s that featured a scene where two young men play chicken and drive their cars straight at each other to see who averts the collision first.

Our founding fathers were keenly aware of the difference between “freedom” and “license.”

I have questions for the Prescott Unified School District board regarding the adoption of the TCI social studies curriculum.

Does our Town Council really believe there are people who want all growth to stop?

Republicans who lost did it to themselves. Sure, there’s evidence that the ballot paper size problems in Maricopa County could have altered some numbers, but let’s focus on facts.

It was very disappointing to see that HB 2167 did not even get out of committee. This bill would strengthen penalties for fentanyl dealers by making drug-trafficking homicides a class 1 felony.

Regarding the calls to “Defund the Police,” it is painfully apparent no place is “safe.”

In regards to the letter by Harry Haff on Jan. 19: where does one start?

To the ranter who complained in the Sunday, Jan. 29, Daily Courier that “You’d think the House GOP would craft legislation to solve the border ‘crisis’ they scream about.”