Letters to Editor
This category will hold letters to the editor, as requested by at least one Beat reader. This editor agrees that letters to the editor should be separate from editorials. Letters to the editor may not reflect the opinions of the editor.
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Lights In The Sky — It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Drone, It's a UFO or Something
I'm certainly no aeronautical engineer, but when supposedly intelligent people begin telling me dozens of mysterious blinking lights in the sky are either drones, eavesdropping foreign aircraft, or UFOs, then I think it's probably time to switch the channel to something a little more believable.
TikTok, maybe.
Mainly, because if we're being influenced by individuals who can't tell the difference between a commercially manufactured drone and something from beyond Neptune, then we're in deeper doo-doo than I imagined.
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I don’t know if you are aware of this, but many of us with landlines in southern Grant County have not had phone service since last Tuesday, 12/9. My neighbors and I who live off 90 just south of White Signal have gotten zero information as to when service will be restored. Some of my neighbors have a landline, since cell service is spotty and it is needed in emergencies. Centurylink has showed utter disregard for their customers. I don’t know if you can find anything out, but running a Letter to the Editor in the Beat MAY light a fire under them.
Thanks
Ray Goellner
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Democrats Want To Audit Democrats
Democrats Want To Audit Democrats
by Mike Bibb
"But I would say the policy, number one, is we're going to audit everything. We're going to audit the campaign. We're going to audit Future Forward. We're going to audit the DNC so people can know. Do you have any idea where that money went? Does anybody have any idea where that money went?" — James Carville, The Washington Examiner, Nov. 30, 2024.
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With former President Donald Trump seeing a slew of his alleged infractions gradually being dismissed by judges, the question becomes: Is it time to prosecute the prosecutors?
Since he was declared winner of the Nov. 5 Presidential Election, isn't it amusing how the wheels of justice are suddenly turning in Trump's favor? Dozens of supposed violations by Democrat prosecutors are now being dismissed for one reason or another.
Mainly, because the charges were bull sheet to begin with and President Joe's influential Department of Justice will no longer be around to do the dirty work.
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They Don't Have Enough Experience
Predictably, Democrats are opposing Trump's cabinet picks because, among other things, they don't believe they have enough political experience to handle the jobs.
"They are naive to the way things really work in Washington" is a common theme among the crowd that's nearly wrecked the economy, created havoc during the COVID virus, allowed lawlessness to run rampant in larger cities, opened our borders to millions of illegal trespassers, impeached, indicted and convicted a former President, and currently funding a war that President Biden has further escalated by permitting the use of American made missiles in Ukraine to rain down on targets inside Russia.
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The NM State auditor recently released a detailed report on the misuse of several hundred thousand dollars by Dr Joseph Shepard and members of the WNMU Board of Regents. These funds were used for personal travel and extravagant home furnishings, as well as for travel by Dr Shepard's wife, Valerie Plame. It details the complete failure of the Board of Regents to provide any meaningful oversight and guidance of Dr Shepard to prevent such misuse of taxpayer money.
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Dear Editor:
As a resident of Grant County I read the report of the State Auditor. I was astonished that the Auditor took such a cavalier attitude towards what was casually labeled a "misappropriation "… of over THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
The report dances around the issue of who exactly at the University was responsible for the complete failure to properly protect the public from this tragic abuse of taxpayer funds. From the report and otherwise we can reasonably conclude that management and the Board of Regents completely ignored years of financial abuse. However, also it seems clear that current university employees who either condoned or facilitated the misappropriation will not be identified or disciplined.
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Audible Gasps
"Several House Republicans meeting behind closed doors said there was an audible gasp in the room when they heard Trump had picked (Matt) Gaetz.
"Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins was among those who said they were shocked, appearing to refer to Trump's demand that his nominees be done with recess appointment — without Senate confirmation." — ABC News, "Gaetz as AG triggers audible gasps from some Republicans," Nov. 14, 2024.
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