Letters to the Editor

Readers write: Letters to the editor, Oct. 10, 2016

Simple devotion can heal us

I realize this is probably too simplistic for ADN to consider publishing, but perhaps we need to return to "simple." The major problems we have in Anchorage and around the world are the disintegration of the family and the dwindling of faith. Whether you believe in the beauty of nature or a formal religion, perhaps we need to set aside some time to contemplate and return to our personal faith. Strengthen the family. Reach out to a troubled young person before it's too late. Lend a hand to a neighbor.

Yes, it's simple, but it is a beginning, and God knows we need to begin somewhere.

— Jacqueline Fries
Anchorage

Trump deserves votes to open drilling, mining, logging

We Alaskans need to consider who will be the best president for our state. Clearly Trump will help Alaska the most.

He will throttle the EPA, which works so hard to keep Alaska from developing its resources. He will open up drilling, mining and logging. Clinton would fight to lock up even more of Alaska.

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Trump will open the life-saving emergency King Cove road. Clinton would continue Obama's setting birds ahead of humans.

Trump's plan to rebuild our military will be a huge boost to our economy.
Trump's wall will reduce illegal immigration and drugs that make their way to Alaska. Clinton loves open borders, which is destroying our country. Americans need jobs — not millions flooding into our country taking our jobs and using the programs meant to help our own people.

Clinton wants to take our guns — Trump and the NRA want you to keep them.
Trump will end "Obamacare" and replace it with something that works.

The most troubling part of this election is that most Democrats are good, honest, law-abiding people. It defies logic they can support someone so dishonest and untrustworthy as Hillary Clinton. A vote for her condones all her dishonesty. Trump may or may not go against his lawyers' advice and release his taxes. Clinton destroyed her emails. She was clearly hiding something. The Obama Justice Department helped her get away with it.

Those issues aside, Trump will help Alaska and clearly deserves our vote.

— Richard Rhyner
Anchorage

Ruling dangerously wrong

If a judge is going to throw out votes "based on historical averages," it does seem to me to be a waste of time and money for the state to even bother holding elections. Even I am capable of perusing and analyzing historic data to determine the historical averages of votes in the state of Alaska. Let's just go with "historical averages" never mind that demographics may have changed, just go with the past. Think of all the money the state could save. Another big-budget item reduced! Just a spreadsheet and graph could determine our government leaders. It would also free all of us voters to have more time for other interests.

With the complexity of the spoiled ballots, is it really up to a single judge to use historical averages and existing splits in votes to determine a winner, instead of declaring the election invalid?

— Karen Delkettie
Anchorage

City's pathetic on alcoholics

Let's see, we removed a water fountain to get rid of the drug users and alcoholics in Town Square. And now we've cut down trees and bushes by City Hall to remove drug users and alcoholics. But a couple of years ago, didn't we build housing, allowing alcoholics and drug users to keep using and drinking?
And I think Bean's Cafe and the Brother Francis Shelter help these people so they can sit on the street corner and beg for alcohol and drug money during the daytime.

I think the next step is to get rid of all the stores and shopping centers in town. Then people won't rob them. The same would go for all of the banks and credit unions. Why didn't I think of this before? All the criminals, drug users, and alcoholics will be gone now! No, don't nominate me to run for the Assembly … I wouldn't be able to stop laughing. I think we're beyond being pathetic.

— Rolf L. Bilet
Anchorage

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