Letters To Editor

Dear Editor, We are real people. I am 68, and my husband is 71-years-old. We have joined thousands of Americans who stepped up for the first, second, and now, third phase of the Covid-19 vaccine trials in progress across the nation so that citizens can have a proven vaccine. All have endured the injections, nasal…

In Nodaway County, we’ve always known our state legislators pretty well. They have lived in our community and shared our values. They’re not always perfect and we don’t always agree with them, but at least we know who they are, and they listen to us. In 2018, out-of-state activists poured money into Missouri and put…

Letter to the Editor; My name is Nancy Wingate, I am the Clinton County Mo Public Administrator. I have held this Office since Jan. 2005, I have been re-elected for 2021. I am personally and professionally endorsing Diane Thomsen for Re-Election for the Public Administrator Office in Nodaway County. Diane has been the Public Administrator…

To the Editor… I’d like to commend the City of Maryville on the very nicely designed Public Safety Department building which is going to be an asset to this community for years to come. However, every day as I pass by said new building, it nags me with some questions I’ve been asking myself for…

We had read and seen so much information about absentee voting that my wife and I thought we might vote absentee in the presidential election, to stay safer this Covid year. We called the county clerk’s office and they were quick and courteous to give us the information on how to proceed. We arrived and…

Larry Anderson’s column demands a response. Without citing a shred of evidence, he asserts that the Democratic Party created the coronovirus for “social engineering,” whatever that is. And that “lefties” are making the U.S. a satellite of China. This is almost a treatable level of paranoia, and it’s the real threat to democracy: oversimplification of…

Maryville Forum, and Mr. (Larry) Anderson: I have considered responding to your columns many times over the past months. Let me be clear: I see the world vastly different from you: I see the answer to our problems as love, unity, common good, and collaboration, not hatred/fear/vitriole. For whatever reason, I have not responded to…

Dear Editor, On September 14th, the Maryville City Council voted to extend the current face covering ordinance through November 24th of this year. This decision was not taken lightly nor made without a great deal of careful consideration. I voted to extend the ordinance for three reasons: 1) The data collected by the Nodaway County…

As election day approaches, it’s time for Missourians to vote on Medicaid expansion. At Mosaic, we are asking you to consider voting YES on Amendment 2. In short, it would provide health insurance coverage for about 230,000 of the poorest Missourians who are uninsured today, improve our state’s economy by adding an estimated 16,000 jobs,…

How lucky we are to live in Maryville. Since we’re in the high-risk group for the virus, we stay home all we can. Even though we stocked up a lot before our good Maryville Public Library closed, after a few weeks we had read all of those books and were rereading our own library at…