Opinions

A disturbing trend appears to have emerged in the Verde Valley with respect to satisfactory medical care. The wait times to secure an appointment are inappropriately lengthy.

What do Oreo cookies and psychoactive drugs have in common? Evidently, they are both highly addictive.

Editorial Cartoon: Michael Ramirez

So many questions were attached to Mingus Union’s cross country debacle, and the most pressing is, “Has anybody learned a thing?”

A letter to the editor in our Sunday, Jan. 22, edition that complained about the Cottonwood Police Department drew the ire of residents, one even apologizing for the length of the response because “I cannot adequately express my outrage in fewer words.”

Thank you, Fry’s and Fry’s shoppers, who participated in the “2022 Zero Hunger/Zero Waste Holiday Food Drive” that was recently held at our local Fry’s

School districts across the state of Arizona are, once again, facing a potential crisis that could result in catastrophic budgetary consequences this spring if our State Legislature does not take action.

A cancer diagnosis can bring you to the very edge of the cliff. It did for Allie Newman. A bright, athletic 16-year-old one day and a cancer patient the next.

Enough fentanyl pills flowed through Arizona last year to kill all of the state’s 7 million-plus residents.

Many times our local hospitals receive negative reviews from upset patients or family members concerning their, or a family members’, treatment when receiving medical help.

The Cottonwood Police are out of control. Just ask anybody. I am in my 70s, and I’ve never seen anything like it.

More than a few wise people have said if you cannot say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all.

There is nothing quite like stormy weather to get us in a tidying up mood. January is the perfect time to de-clutter! Out with all the “stuff” we never use, wear or even like.

Every January, we spend a lot of time rehashing events, accomplishments and failures of the previous year. We prognosticate what will be coming at us in the new year, predicting bear or bull markets (looking very grizzly at the moment), what the ramifications of the past election will be, who will win the sports trophies and what The Old Farmer’s Almanac (still a thing and pretty accurate) says about the long-range weather.

Dan has always lived in Maine. He grew up hunting and fishing in the woods. He doesn’t mind the cold. The bugs in the summer don’t bother him. And being self-sufficient year-round is the lifestyle he has chosen.

Editorial Cartoon: Michael Ramirez

Regarding the editorial, “New governor should put Yavapai County knowledge to good use,” you can say that again. Often!

Football. Once again it is that time of year when we Americans obsess over who will make it to the Super Bowl. The fate of our beloved Cardinals has been decided as they got crushed by San Francisco.

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is a day set aside for measuring ourselves against the yardstick of King’s hope and dream. It is a time to reflect on our moral obligation to condemn social and economic systems that rob people of dignity and equal opportunity.

Left out of GOP debates about “the weaponization” of the federal government is the use of the FBI to spy on civil rights leaders for most of the 20th century.

Editorial Cartoon: Michael Ramirez

“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

Last month, Stanford University published a list of 161 words and phrases that members of their “Harmful Language” initiative imagined might offend certain people in their IT department.

Wrestling is the ultimate sport: One-on-one, you win or lose; it’s up to you.

Today represents a new chapter in the story of our beloved state.