Letters to the Editor

EPCOR wants to raise the rates you pay for water and wastewater services. Tell the regulators you don't want that to happen.Stop complaining and do something.Be a patriot. Be a responsible citizen. Participate in the decision-making process of your government.Let the decision makers hear your thoughts. Make your voice heard. It is easy.Tell your el...

Over the last five years, Arizona has been capitalizing on a lot of "ups": fix up, patch up, and catch up, and we have made some significant work to build out our infrastructure systems. The future of the largest growth areas are within Pinal County. However, there's much to do as it relates to bringing water to the county to enable that growth, as...

In reference to Consent items Q and R I want to commend and thank our county management team for its timely request of funding under the recently approved American Rescue Plan Act. The disastrous public health and economic impact Pinal County has experienced during the pandemic crisis underscores the importance of these newly available federal fund...

I recently read that a number of Pinal County residents are asking the Pinal County Board of Supervisors to conduct an audit of Mark Lamb's Sheriff's Department. I believe there are more than enough red flags to warrant a full scale audit. Our Sheriff is launching a subscription based TV network - "American Sheriff Network". Where will the money co...

Truth, trust, transparency and accountability are words that are desperately needed to guide all levels of government today. At recent Pinal County Board of Supervisors meetings and throughout our country we're witnessing expressions of distrust about the most essential principles of our unique republican form of democracy – questions about the int...

Florence Copper Inc. and the Town of Florence, Arizona have successfully resolved the outstanding legal disputes that had arisen between the two parties over the years. We are pleased that these legal matters are now resolved and behind us.A lot has happened over this past decade. We were able build and operate a project test facility and prove the...

There are two basic questions to ask about today's unemployment assistance benefits: 1) Is $240 per week enough for a family to live on while unemployed? 2) Is unemployment supposed to be income replacement or a temporary safety net to bridge the gap and meet the needs of our employees and their families who find themselves out of work? We could as...

Can we heal and unify if an insurrectionist is in Congress? By refusing to recognize the results of a certified election and supporting allegations without evidence Congressman Paul Gosar encouraged the insurrectionist and seditionists on January 6th to disrupt a constitutionally mandated process.Paul Gosar encouraged the January 6th rally that sto...

It's tempting these days to believe that once COVID-19 is contained, the U.S. economy will bounce back quickly, replenishing jobs and incomes lost in the pandemic. Yet there is an early warning sign that high-demand jobs may be hard to fill when the labor market fully reopens, even with millions of Americans looking for work. This fall, hundreds of...

Never in my lifetime have we lived during a more consequential and threatening challenge than today in both our civic and our personal lives. Your federal legislator counterparts in Washington are at this very moment confronting radical challenges to our democratic republic's civic life.While here in Arizona, personal lives are being threatened by ...

The next casualty of civil discussion created by the COVID-19 pandemic centers around the reopening of schools. Unfortunately, like most issues in society today, this issue is not a 95-5 issue. By this I mean that 95% of the people are one one side of the issue and 5% on the other side. A 95-5 issue makes decisions extremely easy. For this issue, w...

An old and dear friend of ours is in serious, in fact, life-threatening trouble. This friend predates the Constitution and was born before the Declaration of Independence was signed by our founding fathers. Surviving the tests of time, wars, hurricanes, blizzards, pandemics, recessions, depressions, and "gloom of night", the U.S. Mail has made its ...

Sharon Girard wants to thank all those in Legislative District 8 (LD08) who voted for her in the recent Primary Election. It is an honor to be on the ballot to represent you in the race for the Arizona Statehouse in the coming election in November. Sharon looks forward to being a new voice for the district. Times are changing and we are no lon...

Recently the Pinal County Sheriff proposed to start a Citizens Posse. I have very strong concerns. I do not believe 4-hour training is sufficient to teach the issues that are to be addressed, including the use of firearms, crowd control, and de-escalation tactics. Similar programs have been known up to six months. Is this posse to be used for "prot...

It is with great disappointment that a Maricopa County Superior court judge tossed Invest in Ed off this year's ballot. In a poorly written decision, he dashed the hopes of hundreds of thousands of voters and volunteers who braved the heat and a pandemic to sign on to this measure. The group that fought the initiative does not have the best interes...