State roads need repairs
This is to city and state officials about roads.
Can you please fix manhole covers and street drains in the area that are lower than the roadway, particularly along Valley River Avenue and the road behind the Cherokee County Courthouse?
Thank you.
Paul Montgomery, Murphy
D.C. is now new Sin City
It’s time for Las Vegas to relinquish its Sin City title. Without any doubt and very well-deserved, the name now belongs to our fallen federal city/district Washington, D.C.
While on the subject of political evils, I suggest you read Mark F. Levin’s eye-opening book American Marxism. More enlightening fads ignored and repressed by our government and mainstream media can be found on websites offered by some highly respected physicians, such as Richard M. Fleming, PhD, MD, JD, and other knowledgeable people.
Flemingmetbod.com, drtenpenny.com, infowars.com and naturalnews.com are a few sites to consider. Having all available information, you then can make smart, rational choices.
We know several previously healthy people who have had the vaccine and now have serious, ongoing health issues such as affected organs. One, a 40-year-old who didn’t want the vaccine but was talked into taking it, had a stroke and is now in a vegetative state.
My physician told me a few staff members who had Covid-19 and later the vaccine have Covid again and are “very sick.” At another medical office my husband was given similar news. They are seeing many patients with Covid who
had the vaccine. It’s common sense that these scenarios also occur elsewhere in the country. So why aren’t we given accurate data by mainstream media and government?
According to Webster’s Dictionary, brainwashing is intended “to indoctrinate so intensively and thoroughly as to effect a radical transformation of beliefs and mental attitudes.” This occurs when force-fed only one side of an issue, totally eliminating desperately needed facts.
That’s exactly what’s happening, while big-tech companies are censoring anything that doesn’t match this biased train of thought. It’s totally unfair and unconstitutional.
You deserve to have the whole picture, and with it the truth.
Tamara Phillips, Murphy
Grateful for all kindness
Thank you for all of your acts of kindness during this difficult time. Whether you kept us in your thoughts and prayers, sent a lovely arrangement, gave a memorial donation, send cards, texts, messages or helped in any way, your love and kindness brought us great comfort and will always be remembered.
We greatly appreciate and love each of you.
Teresa Magee and family of Buddy Vaught, Hayesville
One letter, two subjects
There’s an old saying, “Killing two birds with one stone.” The two birds are the coronavirus and Valley River Apartments.
The coronavirus has been studied since 2000 and put in a medical book. History repeats itself.
Plagues are known since before Christ. Most received the Bubonic Plague (Black Death). The Spanish influenza (1918-19) and then Asian influenza in 1957. AIDS in 1930s-1990s. All spread worldwide, but Earth is still here.
The woman talks about Satan’s “diseases on the Egyptians?” According to the Bible, “The hair on the head is numbered” (shared or bald or dyed), so no matter what you, you can’t defeat death behind the mask or with the shot.
Now to Valley River Apartments. At those rates, who will actually be the residents living in there? Are they going to be pet-friendly and smoke-free? Give me a break.
If the homeless can afford those prices, they wouldn’t be homeless, except for the people who get burned out. It’s all about money in Cherokee County (Murphy). For example, the new Dollar General store at the lower end of the county (near the state line) cost right of ways quickly, while it took how long for the school to get a turning lane for buses for the students’ safety?
Maybe I should run for mayoress?
Willena Helton, Murphy
All lakes at lower levels
Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam is at 37 percent capacity, which is the lowest level since the 1930s. It provides water to about 40 million people in Nevada, Arizona and California, but a severe drought and diminished snowfall in the Rocky Mountains have significantly reduced the supply of water. Other lakes in the region are at historically low levels.
It appears water conservation measures will have to continue, and probably be expanded, in the Southwest along with the reuse of treated wastewater for agriculture.
Although sea water desalination plants are costly, typically about $4 billion, the people in the Southwest need drinking and agricultural water to survive. There are about 20,000 plants in the world, including a plant near San Diego, Calif., providing 50 million gallons of water per day to 10 percent of residents. Another 10 plants operate in California and 10 more are proposed.
Drawbacks of desalination plants include construction costs, high cost to produce the water, disposal of briny residue water and impacts on sea life, but the cost of running out of water far exceeds the costs associated with desalination plants.
Although desalination plants might only provide 10-20 percent of water consumption, the plants and pipeline delivery systems in the Southwest region are needed to help replace the lower supply from the Colorado River.
Donald Moskowitz, Londonderry, N.H.
Put a price on carbon
The IPCC’s August report on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change is overwhelming to casual observers, but most people have been grudgingly following the science long enough to expect its harsh findings. The science continues to improve but the prognosis remains harsh with a certainty of 1.5°C warming by 2050, and increasingly severe climate related events occurring throughout the next 30-year period. The U.N. Secretary General has referred to this report as a “code red for humanity.”
Although it will be challenging to avoid exceeding 1.5°C beyond 2050, the opportunity is available now. The most
important national climate policies that will guide our future are being discussed in Congress as part of the budget reconciliation process, and we need to ensure the best tools are put in place.
A price on carbon is the most effective tool available to reduce emissions rapidly and keep us on a path to a sustainable future for our children. Pricing carbon is effective since it permeates all levels of the marketplace to drive out carbon inefficiencies. A well-designed price on carbon policy will indeed increase prices of fossil fuels to discourage their use, but will also spur business development in energy innovation, and feed collected carbon taxes back to citizens such that they can weather the necessary transition to clean energy.
Now is the best time to advocate for the most effective climate policies for our children’s future. Please contact your congressional representatives and let them know you want them to support a price on carbon.
David Miller, Brasstown
Two miracles occurred then
Sept. 11, 2021, will mark 20 years since the greatest attack on American soil by an evil enemy occurred on that day.
The same enemy who attacked America then has been handed billions of dollars in American military equipment by an inept bunch of pusillanimous vacuous wonks, from the most sophisticated helicopters to the most lethal weapons on Earth.
I’m reminded of two miracles that happened that day as well. The first miracle happened when an anti-Christian newspaper published the second miracle. God must have blanked-out the editors checking or this article would have never been published.
Within hours of the Boeing 757 smashing into the Pentagon, Army Staff Sgt. Mark Williams entered the site of the crippled headquarters of the most powerful military in the world to find bodies charred like a burnt beef roast surrounded by melted metal and debris. As the stench of charred flesh overwhelmed him, Williams commented, “It was the worst thing you can imagine. I wanted to cry from the minute I walked in. But I have soldiers under me, and I had to put my feelings aside.”
Searching near the point of impact, no doubt the hottest and hardest hit area, using handsaws to cut through concrete-and-metal debris, Williams discovered the second miracle.
On a second floor, next to where the jet sheared off a section of the building, was an undisturbed stool. On the stool was a thick, open book. Fellow searchers who had gotten a close look said it was a Bible. It was not burned. Nor was anything around it or on the two floors above it.
“I’m not as religious as some,” Williams said. “But that would have me thinking, I just can’t explain it.”
You can read entire article as it appeared on Sept. 14, 2001, at http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/sept01/2001-09-14-pentagon-usat.htm.
Ed Huber, Copperhill, Tenn.