Category: Letters to the Editor

I have a message for George Pouliette. Your recent letter to the editor caught my attention and I am extremely curious to know why exactly you consider Katie Hopkins to be a “Liberal” TV personality. Because all other evidence points…

Kids walked out of school again last week, In memory of the Columbine and the Parkland shootings by two mentally disturbed youths. Unfortunately, these kids have no idea what is really going on in the US. There are very many…

Yesterday the Tampa Bay Times reported how Pinellas County is spending over $41 million in bed tax revenue to pay for improvements to a stadium used by the Toronto Blue Jays, a Canadian baseball team. Being curious, I looked up…

I would like to issue a huge THANK YOU to: First United Methodist Church, Capital Heights Baptist Church, First Baptist Church, Elizabeth Baptist Church, Hiram Lodge #5, Kiwanis Club, and Waukeenah Methodist Church for hosting fish fries on behalf of…

As everyone should be aware, a lot of people have gone off half-cocked (no pun intended) as a result of the terrible South Florida shooting. A number of people have a fundamental lack of knowledge and lack of understanding with…

Being a Merchant in the downtown area of Monticello, I take exception to the recent article, and the picture of my business posted in the Jefferson Journal dated Friday, February 23, 2018 that showed my business in a non positive…

Submitted by Sheila T. Slik A small child was playing with his wooden blocks in his room. He built a big beautiful bridge. No one knows why, but he found something about his bridge that displeased him. So he gave…

As we grieve for our Parkland school families and staff, and fear for children at all schools , we must acknowledge that things have to change. We cannot abide the glorification of violence in our society, the accessibility of automatic…

Florida’s Healthy Start is in jeopardy. Deep cuts proposed in the budget this year means services to high risk pregnant women and infants could be eliminated. The Healthy Start legislation in 1991 was designed to give control to the locals,…

As we grieve for our Parkland school families and staff, and fear for children at all schools , we must acknowledge that things have to change. We cannot abide the glorification of violence in our society, the accessibility of automatic…