Oklahoma needs two things: a relevant energy industry and an infrastructure that gets the energy to the people who are going to use it.
Chadwick Cox
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Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2014
Learning to read is the single most important part of an education because we learn most everything else by reading. Clearly, there is a transition when we are learning to read and then reading to learn. I am sure that the timing of the transition is different among students and having a single test after […]
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Non-discrimination bill doesn’t protect or define life
He apparently considers she was still alive, whereas in truth Terri Schiavo had long ago bailed out and left that body on remote control. Medical science indicated that years before (and the autopsy showed) the brain had shrunk down to the so-called “lizard brain,” which is misleading in that lizards are very much alive. To […]
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Misspending money
I attended the Keystone XL pipeline public comment meeting on Oct. 1 at the Reed Center in Midwest City. The long-term consequences of the pipeline produce another risk that I have not seen addressed. The investment money to build the pipeline would be better spent developing renewable energy sources. Money removed from developing renewable energy, […]
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For the public good
Perhaps it’s real anatomy and sexual relations. Maybe it’s real history. Maybe he prefers that his and most other children should be exposed to his religious beliefs 24/7 instead of just all the rest of the time available for his religious teachings except during school. Obviously, he does not care that most people do prefer […]
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Skeptical of Inhofe
However, when the international community of climatologists reports that the earth is heating up, and that we humans are causing that warming, he says that it is a “hoax.” Inhofe only believes what he wants to hear and not what is demonstrable. His claiming the nuclear power plants here are safe makes me skeptical on […]
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Distribution dilemma
In Bill Bishop’s Commentary (“Counterpoint: Paying the price”), he states a law change would “negatively impact selection and price, just as it’s done in Texas.” I cannot really address the selection, but since we have purchased wine for nearly half the price for the same wine here, his comment makes no sense, unless he means […]
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Erroneous assumptions
In discussing erroneous assumptions, Doug Rixmann makes one in his Jan. 6 Gazette letter (“GOP not economically selfish”). Although often repeated, lowering taxes does not generate growth nor increase revenue. Reports indicate this, but the conclusion is obvious. Removing money from circulation or increasing the cost of borrowing money do lower growth and are the […]