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Point of Pride Month is to shove it in our faces
I notice there was an article in the “Miner Extra” “Newport celebrates Pride Month June 5”. The Miner was unable to put an article in the paper anywhere about Memorial Day. Just to mention the lives that have been lost so that we can enjoy the freedom we have today would not have taken any more space than the “Pride” article. I saw a picture of a woman laying prostrate in front of a headstone in a military cemetery.
Flowers surrounded the marker and her baby was in a carrier beside her. Two lives were lost there, the military man and her husband, the father of her child. It brought tears to my eyes.
The whole point of “Pride Month” is to shove it in everyone’s faces all June. I am, thankfully reading about the “Pride” parades not happening this year because of lack of funding from corporate money. Obviously, Target, Safeway and a few others still are. I don’t want to spend my money where that is happening.
The nuclear family is God’s perfect design for humanity and is aligned with the long-held traditional values of many Americans.
This is one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children. These are the people that are the backbone of America. Alabama and Tennessee Governors have made a resolution June being Nuclear Family Month.
-Karen Hanson Newport
One hundred percent
Mr. Scooby knows how the representative system works. 100% of the people are represented. The 40% number he speaks of is not written in stone. If they want to have left leaning candidates win elections they first need people with better ideas. They need people that are strong leaders. They need people with a proven, positive track record. They need people to do more than just stand by a big wheel and hold up signs. More than just vote for people with a “D” next to their name. I talk with Mr.
Scobby on a regular basis. He is a nice guy. He even has some good ideas (on occasion). It is crazy to do things continually that don’t work an expect positive results. Hang in there my friend.
Nice letter by Renee last week.
-K.C. Hunt Newport
Support hospital bond
The Newport Hospital is running a bond to expand and renovate its facilities. I am a resident who has been grateful for 55 years to have this excellent hospital in my community. The administration and staff, doctors and nurses have done an amazing job utilizing the space they have which includes the original 1958 structure, the 1993 additions and the old nursing home The only way our hospital is going to survive in the 21st century is for it to grow to meet the demands from additional patients for additional medical technology.
Here are some of the many reasons the facility needs remodeling and expansion. There are surgeons who would utilize additional operating rooms and cancer patients who would prefer to get their chemotherapy close to home.
There are lab results that could be processed here with results obtained faster. An in-house MRI facility included in the proposal that would save the hospital $38,000 per month by not having to rent the current mobile unit.
And there are patients who want to be treated close to family and friends rather than drive an hour for that care.
Please do your own research and I’m sure that you, too, will support this bond.
-Martha Nichols Newport
Fact check using books, documentaries
The title of this page is “opinion”, but what is the basis of letters written as opinions? If writers base their opinions on a TV program where five media entertainers sit on couches and talk, they could be getting false or inaccurate information and using it to write an opinion. Where do those entertainers get their information? It’s likely from a script writer who finds sensational information made up by dubious internet influencers.
A frequent letter writer should explain how Iran turns Uranium Hexafluoride stored in high-pressure gas cylinders into a nuclear weapon. The couch sitting entertainers have been saying Iran is two weeks away from a nuclear weapon for over 20 years.
America’s complex development of nuclear weapons has been ongoing for over 80 years. Many books and documentaries are available to develop an understanding of what is and was involved in producing those weapons. You could also listen to people’s accounts of working to produce and deploy America’s nuclear weapons. Instead, opinions are frequently developed from media entertainment programs designed to increase ratings then sell us consumer products.
Your attention was grabbed and you pass on opinions with no basis in reality but were presented to you as ‘facts’.
-Pete Scobby Newport
‘Disenfranchised’ have quite a bit of representation
In retrospect, I guess it was really a ghostwriter who was responsible for the May 27th letter “We are a strong community, regardless of differences.” The writer is back with the “Forty percent of residents not represented” letter.
Where the writer tells a “story” but not “the story.”
Let’s look at how the 40% are disenfranchised. In the District of Columbia, there are 10 House seats and two Senate seats, with eight House seats and both Senate seats held by Democrats that represent the State. At the state level, we have a Democratic Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State.
Furthermore, currently, 30 out of 49 State Senators and 59 out of 98 State House seats are held by Democrats.
I bet the 60% wish they were that underrepresented! Unfortunately, this writer consistently exhibits an in-group bias, frequently flooding the reader with an excessive amount of information while simultaneously saying nothing to support their assertions. If the writer dislikes the local makeup, they should “walk the walk” instead of just “talking the talk.”
Come on, put your name on the ballot, not just an opinion letter.
-Renee Webster Newport
