Letters to the Editor

Wow, what a great issue of the June 16 Gazette. Loved the mix of stories, and I’m not even through the whole issue yet. Thanks to you and your staff for sharing your talents. You’re much appreciated. “Stephanie BondMidwest City

In compliance with the “Statistical Abortion Reporting Act,” which became law recently, I find that we need even more information about the sexual habits of the population. Therefore, I have created the “Statistical Viagra Reporting Act” below and look forward to its passage next year: 1) Have you needed the assistance of Viagra? 2) Was […]

Responding to Nathan Gunter’s Commentary “Leaving Oklahoma,” June 9, 2010, Oklahoma Gazette: Agreed, Mr. Gunter. Critical thinkers and progressives should stay in Oklahoma because we need them. But the reality is that this state has gone nearly unchanged politically and socially ever since I can remember having the faculties to think about it. I’ve waited […]

Excuse me for being a little slow in reading a Gazette review, but in your Feb 3, 2010, Life Television section, Dean Robbins reviewed the “Temple Grandin,” a true-life HBO movie based on a woman with autism starring Claire Danes. From what I read, Mr. Robbins gave the movie an overly mediocre rating. I strongly […]

(Editor’s note: As a letter to the editor, the following reader submitted lyrics set to the song “Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones.) For millennia you have known I was down there / And for millennia you have been warned not to open that door / You have always been told that I […]

Scott Cooper’s “Food fight!” article in the April 28, 2010, Gazette focused on whether MAPS 3 and other municipal projects would go hungry if the state scrapped the grocery tax, but this article missed the root reason food tax cannot be removed due to the serious economic problems  it would create, such as bankrupting many […]

I am writing regarding Charles Martin’s article “Street pedalers” in the May 26, 2010, issue of Oklahoma Gazette. The article quoted a local bicyclist who said that cyclists should ride in groups because it is less dangerous to ride in groups, and also says that urban cyclists are hindered “by the fact that Oklahoma City […]

According to “The Israel Lobby,” a book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (both university professors), as of 2005 the U.S. gave Israel $154 billion. We continue to give Israel more than any other nation and don’t require accountability for the huge sums given to them. When Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel recently, […]

Regarding Kurt Hochenauer’s Commentary “Gimme storm shelter” in the May 19, 2010, Gazette: You’re right that the storm shelters should be built, but not that we should wait for the officials to decide to budget the money to cast down from the white towers upon the place owners to give to the shelter-builders. I almost […]

I have always advocated same-sex marriage in the hope that it will cause all of us to rethink traditional marriage.  I read Roger Barton’s May 12, 2010, letter (“‘Gray’ for gay”) and saw “how just anyone is allowed to raise children.” I thought, “Oh, no!” That was followed by, “simply because they have been able […]