A recent letter to the editor with the title “Carrier performance harms Postal Service” needs to be “addressed.”
The right or conservatives support individual rights.
Coach Bob Bushong leaves lasting legacy
Kokomo athletics lost a very special person last week with the passing of Bob Bushong.
Keeping kids safe is calling for all
Sadly, reports of child abuse, neglect, abandonment, and even death make the news headlines nearly every day.
President must get priorities in order
President Obama, where are your priorities? You have trashed us to other nations. You spent nearly a million dollars flying to Denmark to try to obtain Chicago for the 2016 Olympics, and what a defeat you were handed! The U.S. was eliminated in the first round!
I would like to take a moment and make some positive remarks about President Obama, for once.
Stakes are too high for delaying reform
America’s last substantive debate about health care reform collapsed 16 years ago amid partisan rancor, public anxiety and health-industry resistance.
Columnist, ACORN
have no credibility
I don’t know what is more disappointing: That great columnist Stephen Dick actually defended the criminal organization known as ACORN or that the Kokomo Tribune continues to print his columns despite a complete lack of objectivity.
It used to be said that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Steve Rogers only concerned with welfare of county
When I was elected sheriff in November of 2002, my first and most important decision was to select a chief deputy.
Let’s back merchants businesses, neighbors
It seems like, over the years, I’ve heard a lot about the revitalization of downtown. I know there are many empty buildings downtown, and that’s a shame, but there are other parts of town that need to be revitalized as well.
President Obama lowers himself before world
What amount of hypocrisy is needed to shock the citizens of our country to understand the extent of inexperience and immorality now occupying the highest level of the executive branch of our government?
State can be leader
in renewable energy
The people’s continued support of the energy and climate bill passed in June by the U.S. House of Representatives will position Indiana well for the future.
Thank you for including Sts. Joan of Arc & Patrick School among the ISTEP scores in your Sept. 17 edition. In the past, local families have found it difficult to compare ISTEP scores when the private schools were printed on a different day from the public institutions.
County council just doesn’t understand
Cheers for Councilman Paul Wyman on his lone vote against the deficit spending budget passed by the Miller Corp. (Howard County Council).
We are faithful subscribers and readers of the Tribune the six months we are in town.
Did I miss it? I thought I hadn’t received the full issue of the Kokomo Tribune on Sept. 11.
The Environmental Quality Service Committee is meeting at 10 a.m. Sept. 22 in the Statehouse (room not announced yet), and I am requesting that citizens across the state contact their representatives and senators and attend that meeting.
Speech should have been heard
What kind of weak school administrators do we have in this area that they would bow to pressure of some narrow-minded parents who are afraid of what the President of the United States might tell their children?
I would like to remind everybody of a man that we all supported, just one year ago.
September marks my eighth month as the 42nd attorney general of the state of Indiana.
A word on the phrase ‘support our troops’
Many Americans say that we have to “support the troops.” No, we have to support and ensure that our government abides by good foreign and military policy.
Library needs to look at services
Okay I have a real problem with the Public Library. I do not understand how they have the money for a new library.
Service disruption will impact patrons
On pages A1 and A12 of the Kokomo Tribune Aug. 20 edition, there appeared an article on the library’s main branch renovation project.
President fooled middle-class voters
I am a retired factory worker and a loyal union member.
All of my adult life I have paid my taxes, given to charity and bought American-made products whenever possible.
I’m disgusted at the current debate on health care reform and the lies people are using to scare others.
Please don’t abuse handicap parking
Where does one draw the line for handicapped parking permits to be used so freely anymore?
Some of us need affordable care
I am one of the misfortunate Americans without insurance. I don’t understand why people would not want all Americans to at least have the option for a healthy life.
Proposal mustn’t fund abortions
Like many Americans, I am concerned about the health insurance industry’s practices, which too often put profits before people.
I am writing in regard to health care reform. Ahem ... excuse me, health insurance reform. Sorry. I am one of the regularly touted 45 million uninsured (is it 46 yet?). No doubt, I am supposed to be one of the suckers that this appeals to. I flatly reject it. I will not help spring this trap.
Kokomo schools gives away farm
A year ago, the Kokomo Center School Board began recruiting a new superintendent. It found a candidate who has never been a superintendent before, worked for a short time as a central office administrator in Lafayette, and minimal time as high school principal. At the time he was an instructor at a college in Indianapolis.
Fueling the flames of racism
On July 27, the Kokomo Tribune printed an article written by the editors of the Dallas Morning News (DMN). This article addressed the recent altercation between Professor Henry Gates and Officer James Crowley.
America needs to make something
Delphi is squawking, GM and Chrysler, too. Why is that, they have money to pay executives enormous bonuses?
At one time, all of these factories had plenty of work. Now their floors sit empty. We are and always have been a resourceful country. Why do we not make American products to put out to the public?
To what extent will government global warming policies intrude into our private lives?
I was flattered to see that my column about the NEA’s radical left turn prompted a concerned response from a former NEA staffer, Ms. Becky Riggs, who decided to correct my, “inaccuracy, inconsistency, and irony.”
To citizens of Kokomo, Kokomo union members and politicians:
When are we all going to wake up?
Pension earners,
you will be next
I am a Delco retired person. I refuse to call it Delphi to this day.
After 33 years of hard work, those people in Troy, Mich., have decided to destroy more families and communities with their disgraceful treatment of the same people who, over the years, gave them some of the greatest profits any company could ever expect to get.
One of the discouraging aspects of our economic times is that it seems to give officialdom license to treat us as if we were children.
The new GM Electronics in Kokomo, formerly known as Delco, sits in a very unique point in time.
Tarrh will make a good sheriff
I was pleasantly surprised to read that Mike Tarrh is running for Howard County sheriff. He will be a good sheriff.
I have known Mike and his family for several years.
Town of Galveston is a great community
I grew up and lived in Galveston for 22 years, and would like to comment on all the newspaper articles over the last several weeks.
Waterworks Park is pretty nice and loads of fun!
Councilman Zook has fine qualities
Hello! I want to tell you about a person I call friend.
A man in his 60s. Has a wife; raised a family with grandchildren. Takes care of a friend 24/7 – food, health, heat, etc. Runs a business.
Town council needs to see big picture
This article is in response to Bill Young, guest columnist. Bill, take the blinders off. There is a big picture here. Let’s address double standards with facts.
Thank goodness, Governor Daniels?
Educators who work daily to teach and develop 94 percent of Indiana’s school age population are concerned about the future of providing school services in tight economic times.
Cap-and-trade policy is proven, effective
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that takes us one step closer to a new energy policy for our nation. The landmark proposal has engendered strong opinions.
I see where changing the open-campus lunch program at Kokomo High School is being considered by the school board.
Advocates of tolerance usually are intolerant
After reading the editorial piece written by Ms. Stephanie Salter on July 2, I felt compelled to respond. I disagree with Ms. Salter on many levels, but most of all I take exception to the nastiness that is pervasive throughout her piece.
A reader’s look at the front-page story on the “Tea Party:”
You are quoting from Mr. Obama’s Turkish speech, as he tries to quiet some of the anti-Americanism around the Muslim world.
Addiction to power needs intervention
“Everybody complains about the weather ... but no one ever does anything about it.” Mark Twain may be dead and gone, but it seems the U.S. House of Representatives is finally getting around to addressing his complaint.
We can’t worship in our local parks?
Our pastor is leading the charge, and I am in God’s army. We were informed yesterday that our church would not be allowed to have a service in one of our local parks this summer.
Kirk, Davis have clean consciences
It’s been a month since I saw Deanna Kirk’s letter in the Tribune concerning the long, drawn out episode of her husband, Jeff Kirk, and Greg Davis. I was so glad to see her letter.
Wind and solar energy aren’t cost-efficient. We witnessed huge wind farms out West. Some of the turbines weren’t operating because they didn’t produce enough energy to pay for repairs!
I would like to respond to the letter on wind and solar energy on the Opinion page June 16.
Another devastating fire recently affected a family with Carroll County roots. The family of Michael and Joanne Frantz moved to Trenton, Mo., about two years ago to join others of the Old Brethren German Baptist faith to establish a new church community there.
My out-of-pocket property taxes were $1,338.50 in 2007 and $274.60 in 2009. That means I paid only 21 percent in 2009 that I paid in 2007. For the city, township and county (only), I paid only 38 percent in 2009 that I paid in 2007.
In regard to Greg Bevington’s recent letter to the editor regarding the repairs and renovations done at Maconaquah High School, I have a couple of questions. Is it true there are two Olympic size swimming pools at this school? Are these two pools part of the renovation and repair to be part of the multimillion dollar renovation?
Administration’s friends are protected
The public at large may not see what is really going on in the latest restructuring agreement of Delphi and its proposed Chapter 11 emergence plan. However, bankruptcy Judge Drain seriously questions the government backroom-brokered deal reached by the auto task force, GM, UAW, Delphi and Platinum Equity.
Well, I can’t be silent any longer. I do not understand how the Tribune or the rest of the media can continue to give a free pass to what this administration is doing to the private sector of this country.
As Steve Miller, Rodney O’Neal and their merry band of incompetents ride off into the sunset, their saddlebags full of our benefits and pensions, the Delphi salaried retirees are left holding the proverbial bag. Inside this bag are broken
Fight will continue for children’s home
I feel there is a need to let our fellow Hoosiers know about the despicable acts that occurred during the graduation ceremony of Morton Memorial High School, located on the grounds of the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s Home. And the loving acts of a community that has supported the home for decades.
Goodnight didn’t cause the problem
I received a document last week from the Howard County Treasurer’s Office. I presume other home owners also received a similar document.
I have been thinking about the current situation with the Chrysler bankruptcy and the noble objection being made by
Don’t paint killing with broad brush
Let me begin by saying that I have only read the Tribune/AP account of Dr. George Tiller’s murder. I usually only read the paper on Sundays, so didn’t watch any television or have any news-based radio on yesterday. So, I have only the AP account to go on.
Mayor is putting the public at risk
Most people who read this will remember the cartoon character Popeye the sailor. Popeye had a saying, “I had all I can stands and I can’t stands no more.” Well, I can’t stands no more.
It is important that you truly understand what Mayor Goodnight has done and the risk he is willing to make by understaffing the Kokomo Fire Department.
I am appalled, disgruntled and very disappointed in the decision that you, Mayor Goodnight, have made with the laying
Bayh legislation will provide nurses
Classical economics suggests that supply and demand eventually reach equilibrium. Unfortunately, a recent report by the Indiana University Center for Health Policy shows that Indiana’s demand for nurses has outstripped supply and will continue to do so at an increasing rate at least through 2020.
‘Yes, we can’ stop killing children
A recent article that ran in the Tribune about President Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame should remind all of us about what’s truly important, and also what’s true.
After living for over a year under the shadow of false accusations of “hidden agendas and renegade investigations,” I find that I can no longer remain silent.
Regulators should do away with ARMs
We who follow the news on a daily basis have all read and heard of the spate of foreclosures that have occurred when adjustable rate mortgages, also known as ARMs, reset.
Commissioners out for Jacque Clements
As a former county auditor, I feel it necessary to write this letter to get some things off my chest.
I have often wanted to write a letter concerning my term as Clinton County auditor but felt that the right thing to do was to forgive and pray for those who destroyed me and my health.
Many of you have heard, most likely from my parents, that I’m preparing to be a part of a very special group called Athletes in Action.
Athletes in Action Basketball is part of the ministry of Campus Crusade. A journey to Poland and Germany from May 18 to May 29 with the Athletes in Action Summer Basketball Team.
Temporary site too far for some
For the past few years one topic of discussion has been about the Main Branch library renovation. I have made it crystal clear that as long as the library could guarantee that no Main Branch services would in any way be interrupted, I could go along with it.
Livestock stress is at all-time low
As a pork producer, I am responding to the misinformation contained in the May 5 opinion page article titled, “Hog farmers must eliminate stress,” submitted by Ray Wilson of New Middletown.
City will miss
Steve Wisehart
On Thursday, April 23, our community lost a true public servant. With little fanfare or public acknowledgment, Steve Wisehart, commonly known as “Rhino,” died suddenly, shortly after doing his usual business, serving his patrons.
Why recount man’s criminal history?
A very good friend of my husband died in a tragic motorcycle accident on U.S. 31.
Obama policies will erode liberty
Mr. Ray Day makes some admirable comments in his May 2 article. To those critiquing a prior article, he writes, “When I say that I want [President Obama] to succeed in his quest, it was to get this country back on its feet so that you and I can survive on our own.”
For those who buy into the pseudo-science of global warming, Earth Day has taken on more significance than ever before.
Do stars on homes have a meaning?
Hello, my name is Ethan Turner.
I am 12 years old and I just moved here from Salt Lake City, Utah, and I have noticed that a lot of houses here have five-point stars on them.
Pavilion can return fun to downtown
After I read that the city is going to put an entertainment pavilion in, I am very excited.
I think this is a great concept. The opportunities for the city and its community are just way too many to list. It gives the citizens of Kokomo an opportunity to experience a different kind of entertainment.
I agree with Mr. McCray and Mr. Kirkman about the band moving to Foster Park. It is not a good location because of lack of parking, shade trees, the convenience for seniors and the very wet ground when it rains.
Commenting on a bad weekend
After this weekend I could not bide my time any longer. Three things got my dander up and they all occurred in rapid succession.
I am amazed by this comment in the Saturday Tribune. Mr. Ray takes an entire column to denounce suicide. Yes, life can be difficult. Sometimes it can be difficult for a lot of people. But at least those people had a chance.
Friends stand up for learning center
Toward the ending of last Monday’s city council meeting, it was announced that on April 20, the council will meet to the issue of funding the Kokomo’s Early Learning Center (ELC).
I recently had occasion to visit the small town of Linton, Indiana, and I was so impressed with the lovely trees lining their streets (Bradford Pear and Ornamental Pear). They were in full bloom and lovely.
Not fair to say no pets allowed
I would like to address this letter to all landlords who will not allow pets in their properties.
Owning a dog does not always make a person a bad renter. I am assuming you believe that we will allow our dog to soil your carpets, chew on walls and generally destroy your property.
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