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Letter to the Editor: GOP needs more comments like Mo Brooks' on Trump

I vote mostly for Democrats, but I know this country needs a strong two-party system made up of sane, normal patriotic people.

Letter to the Editor: Litter causes ant bites for elderly good Samaritans

If you will not bag your trash for the environment, how about for your elderly grandparents, aunts and uncles that pick up your discards?

Letter to the editor: Herschel Walker could get Alabama off the hook

Concerning the story that ran in Tuesday's paper in which "Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because 'they think the people that do the crime are owed that'":

Letter to the editor: We need a way to ticket litterbug motorists

I drive from Hartselle to Decatur almost daily and I am appalled at the trash that accumulates on the side of the highway and in the medians.

Letter to the editor: On insecure borders and misguided ways to reduce pollution

As you read this letter, ask yourself this question: Has the Biden administration done a decent job in securing the border? Well, have they?

Letter to the Editor: Use Brookhaven dirt to build park in mayor's neighborhood

How many more lives have to be destroyed by the toxins 3M has dumped into the ground in and around Decatur? After 50-plus years of 3M polluting our landscapes and neighborhoods and being proven to having done it wantonly without regard for the safety and health of citizens, city leaders are …

Letter to the Editor: Alabama crusaders know what is right for women's bodies

A different slavery is now practiced in Alabama. If you are female, your body belongs to the Alabama government.

Letter to the Editor: Nation needs debt czar to get things done

We hear we are fighting for democracy on a daily basis, so let’s do something about it. The number one threat is our federal debt, which at some point should be considered treason.

Letter to the Editor: Councilman not above the law with disrupting fireworks

District 4 Councilman Hunter Pepper was blatantly off-base and disrespectful when encouraging the citizens of Decatur to ignore the fireworks law and not call the Police Department if infractions of the law occurred, according to accounts he posted on his social media page.

Letter to the Editor: Honest, unbiased reporting is critical to our society

The Fourth Estate, also known as the “free press,” is vital to our system of checks and balances. It is very helpful in the instances where its reporting is free of bias and not a paid advertisement for special interests unbecoming the common good. This was envisioned by our founding fathers…

Letter to the editor: Macedon Farms 100 years old

Macedon Farms will be 100 years old in 2025

Alabama has tremendous potential for solar power generation

Recently the TVA publicly asked customers to conserve power due to record electrical demand from the historic high temperatures this June. The utility stressed in the public statement the time of day when electric demand peaked, from 2 through 6 p.m.

Fossil fuels needed to to make solar panels, wind turbines

Remember the comment “getting the cart before the horse”? This is what we have with this administration. So, we stop using fossil fuels and then build electric cars. A first grader has better sense than this.

Letter to the editor: US can't even produce lithium for electric cars

So, the Biden administration wants eventually to ban fossil fuels in the name of “Clean Energy.” As of right now, the U.S. produces only 2% of the lithium for batteries. In 2020 the demand was for 350,000 tons of lithium. By 2030 the demand will be up six times that amount.

Letter to the editor: Don't teach kids lies of CRT, transgenderism

The results of a poll printed in your newspaper on April 8, regarding whether the Legislature should ban teaching “concepts” it deems divisive are heartbreaking.

Letter to the Editor: US has regulations for masks but not for border

The Biden administration is the most inept, incompetent in the history of this country. The day after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, he signed a stack of new regulations and cancellations that had been written by who knows. It was not Mr. Biden.