LETTERS

Hey, I didn’t get a curl

I’m being discriminated against. I get the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette every day and my pages don’t curl.

Maybe if I was a loyal yellow-dog Democrat like apparently most of the letter-writers, they’d send me a paper with curling edges too, so I would have something to worry about each day.

JR CROMWELL White Hall

Coffee and the paper

Several times over the period of our winter weather, I have walked out to my paper tube to find my newspaper had not been delivered. Frustrated, I had to peruse a magazine while enjoying my morning coffee. My mornings are important to me. My whole day starts with the reading of your fine paper, which I read from front to back. I then must head to work, a distance of 34.5 miles one way. On several occasions recently, my day has been offset by not being able to enjoy my morning ritual.

When I arrive at work, some of us discuss the daily news. Alas, some mornings I have been in the dark due to my missing paper.

It upsets me, for the city of Siloam Springs does a great job clearing the roads, so that not only can I leave for work, but people, i.e., the newspaper carrier, can make their way through our neighborhood.

My mail is delivered and so should the newspaper. Circulation is based upon delivery and the customer being able to read the paper. No delivery, no circulation. My wife has had to contact the circulation manager, the district manager, and the supervisor of these representatives.

The supervisor was very polite and was very attentive while my wife explained my growing frustration. The supervisor was genuinely concerned with resolving the issue.

As I pulled into my driveway that day, I noticed that two editions had been delivered-the papers from that day and the day before, the ones missing that week.

I am hoping the delivery problem has been resolved because I love reading the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in the morning, in solitude, and relaxing with a nice cup of freshly brewed coffee … GREGO FEYES Siloam Springs

Maybe carrier’s magic

I have been reading the Voices page and can’t believe my eyes. I’ve never seen so much ranting and raving about the paper’s curling edges. In my 30 years here, I swear I have never had a curling paper. It’s always been folded flat.

However, let me tell you about my paper carrier. When the snowstorms came, I always found my paper under my carport and he never missed a day.

(I didn’t get mail for two days, but that’s okay. It just delayed the bills.)

He didn’t even put a card in the paper at Christmas. I had to call the office to get his name and address. I tell you all this so you may agree with me when I say I think he may have a straightening wand and won’t deliver my paper until all the wrinkles are gone. He’s just that kind of guy!

PAT NESIEWICZ Rogers

Salvage some dignity

Beverly Sutton’s letter prompted me to write the letter that has been on my mind for some time now.

I have recently had a milestone birthday (thank you for your greetings) that puts me into the category of “grumpy old lady.” Not wishing to disappoint, I want to grump about something. It actually contradicts a complaint that I’ve had for some time, that we have too many laws strangling most facets of our lives.

But I realize that yet another law is needed.

For the sake of our collective mental health, I propose a law banning any political ads until exactly six months prior to an election. Six weeks would be even better, but I’m trying to be fair. The vitriol that repeatedly spews forth from our television sets is undignified and an insult to our beloved country.

Since I am not bound to any political party no matter who grandpa always voted for, I had a pretty good idea who I would be voting for in the coming elections. Had I not, those insulting ads would have put one Bible-thumping candidate out to pasture immediately.

And please don’t make me have to look at Nancy Pelosi any more! I duck my head then, as I do when the pictures of the mistreated animals are advertised; but at least they are the victims, not the perpetrator.

This rat race is far from over. At least in our state, can we not salvage some degree of dignity?

MARTY HENRY Malvern

Sometimes need snack

As a high school student, I get a little hungry sometimes during class or in between classes. I think it’s not fair that some other schools are allowed to have vending machines, but my school doesn’t. We should be allowed to have those types of vending machines in certain parts of the school other than drink vending machines.

I guarantee I’m not the only student that feels this way, especially students at other schools who don’t have these vending machines. I’m sure teachers could even justify this, that they feel the same way, as in needing a little snack at school just to get them through the day or just until lunch.

Many teachers have snacks in class that they bring from home or gas stations, but I think they would feel better if they had a vending machine where they could get cheap snacks during school hours. That’s pretty fair, right? I believe so.

If we had a chance to vote for this, I think people would really buy in to it and possibly be able to persuade people to get us a few vending machines. RONNIE HINTON North Little Rock

When vote mattered

By the way, Mr. Brummett, as you say, Mike Ross had an eventual vote against Obamacare, when it didn’t count for anything.

Ross voted for it when it was in committee, and I believe that’s what broke the tie and got it started.

I wish the Democrats would recognize the other Republican candidate for governor, Curtis Coleman.

BEVERLY AMES Hot Springs Village