Letters To Editor

During my eight years in the Missouri General Assembly, I worked on issues that involved public safety, crime prevention, emergency preparedness and corrections – familiar topics for a former Buchanan County deputy sheriff with 30 years behind the badge. So why would a conservative, retired law enforcement officer support Medicaid expansion, which is headed to…

Friday, May 8, was National Provider Appreciation Day. It is described as “a special day in May to recognize child care providers, teachers and other educators of young children everywhere.” Mosaic Medical Center – Maryville decided to recognize Provider Appreciation Day by permanently shuttering our homegrown Child Care and Education Center and issuing its teachers…

Dear Editor, To serve the people of Nodaway County over the last five years as your Associate Circuit Judge has been a privilege. I am now excited and grateful to continue public service on the Missouri Court of Appeals. Thank you to Governor Parson for appointing me, and to the Appellate Judicial Commission for naming…

I am writing in response to the January 2, 2020, opinion by Mr. Anthony Brown, ‘’My Point Exactly: Let the river be what it is” In his opinion, Mr. Brown made it clear he has guzzled the Kool-aid served up by those who believe the best flood control is NO flood control. He says, “The…

Dear Editor, As a small business owner and a firm believer in capitalism, I wish to complain in the strongest possible to terms to the so-called “middle-class income tax cut.” Our 2018 federal taxes have literally doubled, which means we significantly underpaid our estimated taxes. Now, we have to take a considerable amount of money…

To The Editor, Corporate agri-business and their lobbyists are attempting to take away local control and our rights. Why? They would rather have decisions being made where their money and lobbyists have the biggest impact– at the state and federal levels of government. But family farmers, county commissioners and rural citizens are standing up to…

Occasionally the Chamber Board will feel strongly that a ballot measure will impact our business community, and when possible the board will fully back a ballot measure to assist in educating our members and community as to how that measure will effect and positively benefit the Maryville business community. Next Tuesday, we feel strongly it…

To the Editor of the Maryville Daily Forum: Since 2000, the citizens of Maryville have voted in favor of supporting sales tax: twice for the Maryville Community Center, twice for Mozingo Lake Recreation Park and most recently for capital improvement projects like repaving miles of streets and building a new Maryville Public Safety Facility. It…

In response to Representative Allen Andrews’ column in The Forum last week, I’d like to offer a rebuttal: Allen Andrews voted to ban abortion past 5-6 weeks gestation (about the time many women discover they are pregnant) with no provision for rape or incest victims. Missouri rape and incest victims will be forced to deliver…