Letters to the Editor

Harry Mitchell (Letters, “Taking a step back,” Oct. 21, 2009, Gazette) is so typical of the sad state of affairs he decries. He is some kind of Frosty Troy wannabe, who with one side of his mouth rails about compassion for the downtrodden and with the other side vilifies anyone who is even one degree […]

Mr. Thomas Furlong provided interesting comments about the state of poverty and the so-called “mantra from the left” regarding the ever-widening gap between the rich and poor (Letters, “Poverty ‘a transient state,’ reader claims,” Aug. 6, 2008, Gazette). Furlong also went on to note that “numbers and graphs are largely irrelevant, especially when looking at […]

The Aug. 6, 2008, article in Chicken-Fried News, “Outlaw the outlaws,” about state Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, was funny but sad. Evidently, he has never been around gangs. He needs to talk to the cops that deal with gangs before he makes any more rash statements. I worked nights 25-plus years in printing houses in […]

When I was in graduate school, one of the biggest problems confronting the United States was Third World debt. One of my graduate teachers was appointed to a panel to investigate the causes and try to develop some solutions to the problem. In the first meeting of leading economists and bankers, the question arose: “Why […]

If they named the team the Oklahoma City Rocks, there would be tons of theme music to choose from. The Thunder sounds like a WNBA name, at best. The Rocks, as a noun, pays tribute to our energy heritage and our toughness. As a verb, it says a lot about how we feel about our […]