June 26, 2019
To the editor: I am responding to The Call’s letter to the editor April 11 by Ms. Rosemarie Garcia regarding “….How does Trump still have supporters?” During our president’s first two years in office, there have been some truly historic accomplishments. Trump’s economic record, the largest tax cuts since President Reagan, and making America an
[ Read More ]To the editor: On the “Red New Deal” Better Together, perhaps “Marx’s Better Together,” of the workers and the state, would be appropriate terminology. Nikita Krushchev made a speech in 1959: “We will bury you,” the United States, from within. Abraham Lincoln made a similar speech about a hundred years before that. He cautioned against
[ Read More ]To the editor: In response to Ms. Susan Mroz’s April 25 letter regarding her “professional” opinion that President Trump is mentally unhinged, she references the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as the basis of her claim. In particular, her group cites the president as suffering from narcisstic personality disorder, or NPD. I
[ Read More ]Editorial By Gloria Lloyd This summer, the Crestwood Board of Aldermen is holding its meetings on the fourth Tuesday of each month instead of the second Tuesday. Usually that would be an insignificant summer sidebar. But it’s a step forward in transparency for residents. That’s because Crestwood government watchers, like their counterparts in Sunset Hills,
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: On April 8, Fischer & Frichtel withdrew its proposal for the property at Lincoln Drive and Robyn Road off South Lindbergh. It took nine months to get here. Now what? Those of us who opposed the development agree that any new development must, at the minimum, comply with
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: I am opposed to the forced merger of St. Louis County with the city of St Louis. Question: What will happen to county school districts under the proposed amendment to the state Constitution to force a county/city merger? No definite answer. School districts are said to be left
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: In response to a city-county merger, consider Houston, Texas, the largest city in square miles in the U.S. Why? Because that city annexes unincorporated municipalities and subdivision communities, in Harris and surrounding counties. Planned communities, like Clear Lake City and Kingwood, developed for NASA and Exxon primarily, never
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com By the time this issue arrives in most of your mailboxes, you’ll know whether the St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup. But at the time I’m writing this, all I know is that they lost Sunday and are set to play the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of
[ Read More ]To the editor: Years ago in Northern Arkansas, I left my camera on the backseat of the car of a nice couple from Oakville who gave me and another fellow a 10-mile ride from the Kyles Landing or Steel Creek Campground on the Buffalo River up through the small town of Ponca to the Centerpoint Trailhead where my car was parked. Back then I lived in
[ Read More ]To the editor: Normally prior to a wedding, the bride and groom make themselves as attractive to each other as possible. They are loving, respectful and accommodating toward each other. Then, at the wedding ceremony, they profess eternal love and devotion to their union. In other words, all their efforts prior to the marriage went
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