Category: Letters to the Editor

For those of you who thought Washington would finally get back to governing and undertaking the public’s essential business once Special Council Muller’s report was finalized, buckle your seatbelts!! The outright refusal by Democrats to accept the legitimate and constitutional…

I am writing as the parent of a student at Somerset, regarding the remarks made by School Board chair Shirley Washington, as printed in the March 29 edition of the Jefferson Journal. As a parent I am very disappointed with…

I am trying to understand Shirley Washington. First of all, I don’t. If she is all about the education of the children, then why did the district have to turn over the school system to a charter? If the school…

I read with concern your article, “High Voltage Line to Cross Jefferson County.” First, the headline implies this is a done deal. It is not. The impacted residents are fighting this project, which is all pain and no gain for…

I would like to begin by acknowledging Ashley Hunter’s great column in the last issue of the Jefferson Journal, “Who Speaks For You?” Ms. Hunter’s insightful piece motivated me to re-examine who I was voting for in this critical primary…

I just saw on national TV that thousands of our children across the country walked out of school to demand legislators do something about climate change and in support of the new green deal!!!!! This is pure brain washing (especially…

The Democrats are notorious for making other people’s problems their own. Shortly, perhaps minutes, after New Zealand announced prohibitions against semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) tweeted the “U.S. needs to follow the gun ban example.” She attached…

I am a Jefferson county resident. I have been a victim of hit and run while biking on 19N. I still ride thousands of miles around north Jefferson County on my bike. I have often thought about how nice it…

At a time when states like New York are placing the right to murder an unborn baby in their constitution even to say that the procedure does not have to be performed by a doctor, and, if it is unsuccessful…

“If socialist understood economics they wouldn’t be socialist.” Friedrich Hayek The greatest threat facing the United States today doesn’t come from China, Iran, or even Russia; it’s the growing number of Americans, primarily millennials, who believe Karl Marx’s socialism provides…