Category Archives: Opinions
Courier Letters to the Editor 8-12-26
Stricter subdivision rules
Dear Editor,
Oftentimes you will hear the county planning commission voted on a new subdivision, it “approved” the project, the land is about to be graded and the houses will soon go up.
Untrue. Just because the planning commission has voted — step three in an eight-step county approval process — doesn’t mean the subdivision has final approval and is about to start.
In the county areas (outside the cities, which have their own rules) over the past three years, there have been five applications for new subdivisions the planning commission has voted for. That is not many since the council passed the stricter rules in late 2023. Only one of those five subdivisions has received final county approval and has houses
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Alex Saitta
Pickens
The river ran backwards
John 7:37-38 “ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the 
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
The morning was cool but pleasant. I walked out onto the pier under the Brooklyn Bridge with my early morning coffee. The New York skyline cast shadows over the city, I felt totally alone and susceptible. We were working with a Christian disaster relief group providing meals for first responders and victims.
The scene of that September morning in 2001 included smoke off the site of the
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Part D drug plan costs going up
Many of us avoid talking about politics, but now and then an issue comes along that needs to grab our attention.
The one we need to be concerned about now is the Medicare Part D subsidy that will expire at the end of the year and won’t be offered in 2027.
It started as the Part D Premium Stabilization
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The dynamics of creation
Genesis 2: 7 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
The average human body contains thirty trillion cells. Blood cells, bones, skin, organs and many other body parts, from toenails to hair, are made up of cells.
The average cell contains over one-hundred trillion atoms. An atom is the smallest part of an element that can exist and retain its identity. An atom has a nucleus in which there are protons (positively
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Ponderings on the typical
Dear Editor,
Today’s talk is on, the typical. They think they are God’s gift to all of the women in the world. Doesn’t matter that they may be uglier than a hog in the mud. They still think that they can just walk into a room full of beautiful women and grin then the women will come running as fast as they can to them! They are the typical man! Another typical one is even if they see a man buck-toothed and ugly as a Missouri mule eating saw
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Confusion over payment for non-VA medical care
Let’s hear it for whistleblowers, especially when big money is involved, and most especially when some of that money should have gone into the pockets of veterans.
Specifically, starting in 2001, non-VA medical providers and veterans had 90 days to file for reimbursement for veterans who had sought
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