Letter: Blessings (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I would like to thank the Bay Transit/Bay Express staff and express what a blessing they are to folks like me who don’t have a car. It may… …
Letter: Standing against hearsay (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I offer the following comments on the proposed Gwynn’s Island highway marker and your article of Oct. 24 Very simply, the state approved the marker based on hearsay… …
Letter: Election hyperbole may be rooted in founding (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Thomas Jefferson described the Constitution as imperfect and as should be reviewed by each generation. Jefferson’s prognostication may have been because so few were eligible to vote. The… …
Letter: The dishonest Democratic Party (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Democratic Party has implemented numerous bad policies through President Joe Biden. The worst is inviting people from all over the world to cross unimpeded and unvetted into… …
Letter: Critical of Democrats (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I cannot but comment on the advertisement in the Gazette-Journal paid for by the Democratic Party these past few weeks that states, “Choose Freedom! Vote Democrat!” Freedom? Freedom… …
Letter: For whom will you vote? (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Both candidates are known, Trump as president for four years, and Harris as vice president for four years under President Joe Biden. When Kamala Harris was asked what… …
Letter: What’s in it for them? (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Has anyone stopped to ask themselves why Project 2025 exists? Nine hundred footnoted pages is an immense amount of work, for which people were paid to research and… …
Letter: Vote Harris (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Donald Trump and his Maga Minions have been crystal clear what a second term would be: Deporting millions of people; Retribution of political opponents; Using the military against… …
Editorial: A sad farewell (10/23/2024) - In the end, there was no more time. There was no more money. And America’s flagship, the SS United States, tied up since 1969, may soon be on her way… …
How are you voting? (10/23/2024) - With this year’s election cycle well underway, we decided to ask our readers how they were planning to vote (or if they had already voted) for this week’s survey. The… …Letter: Shame, shame (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Attending the joint session of Gloucester supervisors and the school board on Oct. 15, I became disappointed at a colleague trying to disparage the comments of Supervisor Philip… …
Letter: Civil rights under attack (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The most recent Mathews Board of Supervisors meeting highlights some of the problems that are plaguing America right now. The same people who support a divisive presidential candidate… …
Letter: Telling truth from fiction (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Call it bunk, hogwash, rubbish, or just plain baloney, false information is served up to us on a daily basis. The motivation is clear: to get our attention,… …
Letter: A critical crossroads (10/23/2024) - Election Day November 5, 2024. Are we not at a critical crossroads in this election? It has been easy to forget what we share in common: our love of freedom,… …
Letter: The destiny of our nation (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Be very careful how you vote this election; it is not only about the person who holds the office, but of the destiny of our nation and the… …
Letter: Don’t throw vote away (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I would like to take my two minutes of fame (thank you, Gazette-Journal!) to address the undecided/swing voter. At the end of the 2024 presidential election, one of… …
Letter: Keep the Electoral College (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The editor argues (“The Electoral College,” Oct. 17 Gazette-Journal) that the method we have used to elect every president since George Washington should be discarded in favor of… …
Letter: Follow your conscience (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: My grandfather once said that he always voted for the best man for the job, and the best man was always a Republican. Many of us vote the… …
Letter: Elect Hung Cao (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: “Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus.” And yes, Virginia—it’s time for a change in the United States Senate. Elect Hung Cao, a refugee from Vietnam at the… …
Letter: Vote by facts, not fear (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I’m dismayed by the many recent letters that perpetuate rumors and misinformation. For example, Trump claimed that Biden took money from FEMA for migrants and that FEMA is… …
Letter: Vote for democracy. Vote for Harris. (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: After the 2020 election, Donald Trump did everything he could to try to hold on to power. He filed dozens of lawsuits, he pressured election officials to “find”… …
Letter: I’m voting for … (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: A friend recently asked me who I was voting for. My answer was “I’m voting for: 1.) The 1st Amendment and Freedom of Speech; 2.) Secure borders and… …
Letter: Undermining Trump (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Once Donald Trump announced he would run for president as a Republican, attacks to undermine him began from individuals inside and outside of government. On Oct. 20, 2024,… …
Letter: Hope and unity (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Since people have asked “What has Harris done to earn election as president?” I submit these as a few of her accomplishments: VP Kamala Harris has consistently pushed… …
Letter: The Broken One (10/23/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: You have seen things you cannot unsee. Your body is broken in ways that cannot be fixed. You have endured things that cannot be undone. Your dreams are… …