September 25, 2008 RSS feed / Letters

U.S. should treat veterans with respect

My nephew, U.S. Army Sgt. Coleman Bean, died earlier this month. He was 25 and he took his own life. Coleman signed up for the Army on Sept. 5, 2001. He was with the 173rd Airborne and parachuted into Iraq at the start of the invasion. More...

Westlake adult community makes certain Sept. 11 is special

For many (people) the date Sept. 11 brings tears, anxiety and a mixture of emotions too powerful to completely understand. I, like many of the Sept. More...

Drinking age debate important to future of young lives

Behind the fusillade of faulty arguments proffered by the Amethyst Initiative in support of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 lurks an inconvenient truth: doing so would only exacerbate the current epidemic of underage drinking, further More...