Letters to the Editor

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 […]

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 […]

According to history, both science and Christians believed the world was flat a few years ago. Now, both science and Christians have adapted their world view to incorporate the concept that the earth is a sphere. The data is the data. The theories we create are inspired by the data. Teaching theories as fact leaves […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kurt Hochenauer should have a disclaimer at the end of every one of his columns in the Gazette: “Any quoted facts and figures mentioned in this article a) bear little resemblance to reality in Oklahoma and b) willfully omit any sort of proper perspective.” The U.S. Census Bureau’s national poverty level by income is a […]

The Jan. 21 Oklahoman has an editorial (“Cap and tirade: Benge is right in urging caution”) that basically tells state Rep. David Dank, R-Oklahoma City, to sit down and shut up. As I understand it, Rep. Dank wants to bring a couple of property tax issues to a vote of the people, and the good […]

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 […]

I commend Tom Price Jr., senior vice president of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, for his willingness to discuss the toxicity issues of natural gas extraction (“Chesapeake executive responds to letter,” Jan. 13, Oklahoma Gazette). An honest discussion is needed to ensure that the method for extracting gas from shale (horizontal drilling/hydraulic fracturing) does not negate the […]

Doug Bentin wrote a review of the recent film “Precious” (Semi-‘Precious,’ Nov. 25, 2009, Oklahoma Gazette), and I had not seen the film until recently. Apparently, Bentin has been so privileged in his years on this earth he has not experienced illiteracy, physical and emotional abuse and neglect, rape, poverty, bullying and obesity. In the […]