Opinion

To the Editor: A significant number of Americans are concerned about our current system of electing those who represent us. Many, if not most, of us deeply believe that changes must happen in order to give us confidence that we can support candidates whose views and goals reflect our own.

Eight days of rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with my daughter promised to be an exceptional experience.

As we look at the pictures from Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York;. and other mass shooting sites, we’re having agonized conversations.

Your editorial of 13 May, 2022, regarding my client Jacqueline Peterson demands that charges be filed in the shooting of her abusive husband. It reminds me of a film in which the supporting characters wail that they must do something.

For 33 years, my organization has been sounding the alarm about the declining fortunes of young adults.

Thoughts and prayers are the least that should be provided following the latest among dozens of mass shootings across this nation during the past 20 years.

I said hello four years ago this month as editor of the Richmond News and Excelsior Springs Standard. Now, I say good-bye.

Legalizing the recreational use of marijuana appears likely to get on the Missouri ballot in November, and from there, seems destined to become law. The prediction that the issue will reach voters is based on a claim by Legal Missouri 2022, the group pushing the ballot plan.

Change. Something that is completely natural, yet it can be dreaded.

Europe remembers the murders, destruction and subjugation of WWII, and history is now repeating itself in Ukraine. NATO countries have to vastly increase their militaries, both defensively and offensively, to thwart Russia. Tactical nuclear missile systems should be deployed within NATO countries.