Recent travels presented several opportunities for comparing today’s issues from differing perspectives. To some of our fellow citizens life in America reflects a lack of appreciation for the unacknowledged good, while the bad is either blown out of proportion or simply completely made up. ‘Never let a crisis go to waste’ So spoke Chicago Mayor […]
Letter: Play on, Benicia Chamber Players!
Play on, Benicia Chamber Players! Congratulations to the Benicia Chamber Players for their magnificent performance at the Benicia Capitol on Sunday afternoon! The playing was flawless, full of energy and very moving – everything that one could hope for. But then, the musicians are all professionals with standards of the highest order. Many thanks to […]
Letters: NFL solution
NFL solution If the NFL Players kneel or raise fists in disrespect for the national anthem or flag, let them give up their bloated salaries the U.S. system lets them receive and go to another country where they can respect its national anthem and flag. Stuart Posselt, Concord
Gerna Benz: The importance of having a plan to pay for college
By Gerna Benz Special to the Herald College loan debt is ranked second in all consumer debt, second only to mortgages. The outstanding student loan debt is nearly $1.3 trillion and continues to grow and there are 7 million borrowers that are currently in default of their student loans. The importance in knowing these figures […]
Cannabis: Compassionate conservatives
The national cannabis landscape is quickly advancing towards re-scheduling or de-scheduling cannabis to expedite research that has been stalled due to the DEA’s tight grip on cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug with NO medicinal value. To this end, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) has introduced legislation, with bipartisan sponsors, to collapse the federal bureaucracy […]
Bruce Robinson: The president knows how to ‘Git-R-Done!’
Almost immediately after Donald Trump won the presidential election last year, “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe posted these comments on his Facebook page: “The people did not want a politician. The people wanted to be seen. Donald Trump convinced those people that he could see them. Hillary Clinton did not.…the world is full of very […]
William S. Emes: In tribute to Lieutenant Col. Joseph Bruggman, a Benicia resident
By William S. Emes, Jr. Special to the Herald As we know, on Aug. 6, 1945 at 8:15 – 43 seconds a.m. local time, an atomic bomb was detonated in the atmosphere as a weapon. Hiroshima, a city in the Imperial Nation of Japan, was destroyed at the command of an American president. In truth, […]
Letters: Cannabis vote and contacting Rep. Thompson’s office
Contacting my office In response to her recent letter to the editor, I want to thank Ms. Dorothy Story for bringing her matter to my attention. I did receive Ms. Story’s inquiry and I sent her a letter in response this week. I wish I could have responded sooner, but with the volume of mail, […]
Letters: Citizen engagement edition
Building to engage Benicians “Partisan politics are great, but to put non-partisan politics in the same boat is wrong” was the last line of a recent Forum article, penned by Benicia resident and serial letter writer Bob Livesay. The sentence concluded an 850-plus word essay on the dangers of Benicia residents gathering to discuss politics […]
Letter: Save Our Social Security Fund
Save Our Social Security Fund One Benicia resident trying to Save Our Social Security Fund. Here is her story. I am trying to save our Social Security funds for all people in the United States that have paid FICA tax. I made five calls to Reps. Mike Thompson and John Garamendi’s offices in Washington, D.C. […]