Opinion

Editor,

Last week, my sister, who lives in Pleasant View, awoke to a terrible sight. Three of her roosters had been murdered in her yard. Two of them were beheaded and one had his throat cut. The heads were take way by whoever did this deed.

Everyone who knows my sister knows that her chickens are her pets, not just farm animals. There had not been any complaints from neighbors. My family and I are baffled as to the reason behind this violent act.

Editor,

As it’s told to me, it takes $25 million a month to run the House of Representatives, and with the 37 times that they have attempted to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act by debating and voting it down, it has cost the taxpayers an estimated $50 million in total. Now if that’s fiscal conservatism, no wonder all that spending that was done during the Bush/Cheney administration was never questioned by them. That’s just one fraction of what it has cost us, the taxpayers with all the impeding that the right in Congress have done since President Obama has taken office. One can only wonder just how much further we could have progressed had the House members done the job they were send to Washington to do besides trying to regain power. 

Editor,

This letter is in response to the May 12 article, “’Redneck’ MMA beer license given.”  The article contains comments made by Farmington city leaders after they “begrudgingly (gave) local consent for a temporary beer license for a mixed martial arts event to be held at the Legacy Events Center, June 1.  Though they didn’t want to, the article explained, the council gave unanimous consent for the beer license after being told it had little choice in matter as the event meets existing guidelines.

The article reported that “City Manager Dave Millheim referred to the event as ‘rednecks, alcohol and a chain link fence.’”  Millheim also stated that “it’s not something that reflects well the culture of our community.” 

Thumbs up: To having the name of the late Ogden police officer Jared Francom memorialized on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington D.C. Francom was killed on Jan. 4, 2012 in Ogden.

The outrage over the Internal Revenue Service bullying conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status is not defined by political biases. All Americans are outraged over a massive bureaucracy using its muscle to oppress Americans.

I like novels and books from small presses, the independents, those that rely on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, word-of-mouth … for sales. I read two novels and one scholarly book, from respectively, Strange Violin Editions, Leicester Bay Books, and Xlibris. 

They are “Byuck,” a novel by Theric Jepson, well known in the Mormon literary scene, “The Hand of Glory,” by Stephen Carter, another fixture in Mormon lit, and “German Leaves: Opposing Nazi Cannons with Words,” by retired academic Ralph P. Vander Heide, a resident of Ogden.