Letters To The Editor

Raising children We can do everything possible to raise our children right and we can listen to all the right-wing politicians who want to return our society to good and healthy morals.

Lower speed limit The tragic death of a motorist on Memorial Drive last Friday evening, as reported in Sunday’s Highlands Today, was followed by a very similar accident at the intersection of Memorial and Sunset Drive.

Doing a dis-service

Lack of attendance

Good editorial If readers of Highlands Today could award the best editorial of the year, my choice would be the May 8, 2013 editorial “Same legislative nonsense alive and well.”

The stupid party Kudos to Gerry Garnich, former Republican Party official, for the April 30 letter exposing the efforts of a local self-styled “patriot” regarding the tragic explosion at the Texas fertilizer plant.

TDC money Did you know that State Statute 125.0104(3)(d) allows the 2 percent tourist tax to be raised from 2 percent to 3 percent one of two ways: By the extraordinary vote of the governing board (county commission by four “yes” votes)...

A travesty

Let’s pull together

American workers Americans are the hardest working people in the world, period. I grow tired of employers in our country who hire illegal aliens and then use the excuse that illegal aliens work harder than Americans do.