Letters to the Editor

I didn’t vote for or against MAPS 3. I believe we need to grow our city, but not at the expense of others. Others that can’t afford health care, elderly care programs, counseling for a drug-dependent loved one, and a meal on the table or a house to have a meal. Somehow, MAPS 3 will […]

More disturbing than her ignorance of evolution is Judy Wesselhoft’s insistence that our children deserve to be kept ignorant, especially in a state whose science standards have routinely garnered an “F,” on par with Arkansas and Alabama, for not even mentioning the word evolution. Wesselhoft might just as well question why the U.S. government spends […]

I am baffled that a jail roughly 20 years old must be replaced at a cost of $350,000,000 to taxpayers (News, Scott Cooper, “Go directly to jail,” Dec. 16, 2009, Oklahoma Gazette). The basis for the need to build the jail is last year’s U.S. Department of Justice report, which confirmed the deplorable conditions and […]

I have to respond to a couple of letters in the Dec. 16 Gazette. Joan Stirlen (“Wealthiest already keeping crisis at bay”) claims that the wealthy have kept us from economic disaster by spending and filling the tax coffers, but she may be unaware of the nifty little tax dodge that allows Oklahomans to purchase […]

What happens around your house when the salary doesn’t match the spending? Right: You cut the spending! Not according to the University of Central Oklahoma liberal, cardigan-clad academe Kurt Hochenauer (Commentary, “Counterpoint: Reactive response,” Dec. 9, 2009, Gazette). He thinks we should tax the rich! Yeah, tax the very people who provide jobs. I would […]

This MAPS 3 tax campaign that was just passed in Oklahoma City was not about anything progressive in the generally understood meaning of the word. Despite some public e-mails and statements made by prominent people and then echoed by those who should know better, using the word “progressive” to describe the use of tax money […]

Two recent articles in the city’s daily newspaper (“Shale speculation off base,” Oct. 19, 2009, and “Oklahoma choir for gas gets bigger,” Oct. 22, 2009, The Oklahoman) promoted the financial advantages of harvesting natural gas from the vast shale reserves in the continental United States. For an informed public, other issues need to be discussed: […]

Phil Busey Sr., I think I love you. Your Commentary (“Do not sacrifice public education”) in the Nov. 25, 2009, Gazette was spot-on. If we’re spending big bucks to create a world-class boating river, will we staff ancillary concessions with kids who can’t make change or spell the stuff they’re selling correctly? If we’re spending […]

If you think the biggest scientific hoax is climate change or global warming, examine this: Government spends billions of dollars every year promoting evolution. The number of renowned scientists that have publicly expressed doubt concerning Darwin’s theory of evolution is on the rise. The Discovery Institute’s Dr. David Berlinski writes about this hoax in his […]

Kurt Hochenauer would have us believe the economic impact of the last two years has only affected the poor and middle class, hence his support of taxing the state’s wealthiest citizens (Commentary, “Counterpoint: Reactive response,” Dec. 9, 2009, Oklahoma Gazette). In fact, it has affected everyone. The state’s wealthiest have been the ones who have […]