Letters to the Editor

Recently, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life ranked Oklahoma as the seventh most religious state in America (News, Greg Horton, “Holy Okies,” Jan. 27, Gazette) with 69 percent of Oklahomans stating that religion is very important in their lives. This news is both wonderful and quite troubling. Wonderful in that the tenets of […]

Regarding the “‘Getting off ‘ from the soapbox” letter from Robin Leake in the Jan. 20 Gazette:I don’t know how to put this any simpler. Your original letter (“MAPS 3 needs a spanking,” Dec. 30, 2009, Gazette) said you were against MAPS 3, but you did not vote against it or vote at all. I […]

Is it just me, or do the local meteorologists receive way too much air time? Don’t get me wrong. They are a valuable tool during tornado season and no doubt save lives. Even recently, they came in handy … to a point. But wall-to-wall, 24/7, channel to channel coverage of a blizzard and ice storm? […]

I can’t believe Rod Lott gave “Avatar” a D-plus. That is absolutely crazy. I am not saying it is an A-plus, but it is definitely not a D! And how come Doug Bentin is the only one watching movies? What good are the ratings if you got some dummies doing it and they barely even […]

Judy Wesselhoft’s letter “Kids deserve better” is prima fascie evidence as to why Oklahoma continues to lag behind much of the U.S. in science test scores. She and other loud, threatening ideological extremists have bullied our State Board of Education into expunging the word “evolution” from our K-12 PASS (Priority Academic Student Skills) objectives. Such […]

Regarding Judy Wesselhoft’s “Kids deserve better” letter: The title was correct ” it is cruel for kids’ different authority figures to undermine each other. I am both a mainstream biologist with a doctorate and a Christian with a high regard for Scripture. My passion for the past 40 years has been to teach kids that […]

This letter regards Judy Wesselhoft’s Dec. 16, 2009, letter “Kids deserve better” and the diatribe directed toward it as published in the Jan. 6 Gazette. Just more than 30 years ago, Time magazine ran a cover story proclaiming the world was entering into a new league. Considering the estimated age of the earth, 30 years […]

The facts do not support your reader’s accusations concerning oil and gas well fracturing in his letter in the Jan. 27 issue of Oklahoma Gazette (Jay Hanas, “‘Taken aback’ by Chesapeake exec’s assertions”). I have 48 years experience selling oil field specialty chemicals, 38 of which were spent selling to fracturing service companies all over […]

Don Bye’s praise of Judy Wesselhoft and his personnel deity (Letters, “Wesselhoft’s letter refreshing,” Jan. 13, Gazette) deserves mention of a few corrective details. Without a tilt in our axis of some amount, areas of the earth would indeed freeze and others would bake. In all habitable zones, life should do as well it does […]

In response to the change of the local radio station “94.7 The Buzz” to “94.7 The Brew,” this has been the final straw in my distaste for the radio. What Tom Travis and Bill Hurley where thinking when they aided in making this change I do not know. But the last thing we need is […]