Please vote! Are you a voter who would desire a choice besides the two top party candidates in the November 8, Presidential Election but feel your vote would be wasted elsewhere? There is a choice. The game plan is simple. For a candidate to win the election, they must receive 270 electoral votes. There…
Believes Evan McMullin is conservative and qualified I love living in a conservative state where the majority of citizens seem to fit the dictionary definition of the word conservative: “Believing in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society.” Of course, we do allow for proper adjustments that still further…
Scout says candidates should post ideas Hi! I need to write a letter to you for a merit badge. You know about the debate? I think it would be a good idea to post all the candidates points on how to run the country. Mike Larsen Fairview
Dislikes comments in recent edition of paper I certainly hope you and the mayor “so appreciate” my comments in this letter like you did for the lengthy opinion of Ms. Schroeder. I hope you will not edit my comments like you did in a previous letter I sent to you a year or…
Consider alternative to Trump or Clinton I’ve always wanted to help people toward greater understanding and truth, and at present there is a deep lack of understanding regarding the presidential campaign. Most people think we have to settle for the lesser of two evils by settling for one of the two major party…
I recently watched on PBS a documentary called “Brigham Street,” highlighting the wonderful, irreplaceable and, sadly, partially lost architectural history of what is now South Temple in Salt Lake City. I had to agree with every sentiment expressed by the narrators of “Brigham Street”—one of whom was our own Craig Paulsen of Spring City, whom…
Power of persistence will win in the end on Narrows Project “Nothing is more powerful than persistence.” And no group of people is a better example of that statement by Calvin Coolidge than citizens of Sanpete County, as represented by the Sanpete Water Conservancy District (SWDC). In order to get the Narrows dam and reservoir…
Editor, I read the notice in the Sanpete Messenger last week that a hearing is being held in Orem this week to raise the amount of Sanpete County property taxes collected by the Central Utah Water Conservancy District again. I do not understand this. I was told by the CUWCD that the reason for the…