A newspaper isn’t your feel-good buddy telling you everything is all right while the barn is on fire. It’s a mirror reflecting the world in front of it.

Hopefully, Rob Spencer’s personal apology will resonate throughout this community in a way that brings a new understanding of racial injustice and that promotes action on the part of us all to initiate changes.

You, Ms. Boswell, are the hypocrite. Like all liberals, your hatred of our president, Donald Trump, has skewed your logic.

This could be a boon for the Republican Party of Texas because a virtual meeting may allow more room for more constituents than the in-person event.

In more “that’s wild” news, a hole has developed under a housing development in South Dakota, leading spelunkers — that is cave explorers — to find a deep networks of caves over 60 feet underneath.

So if you’re one of those folks asking me and others like me to apologize for something someone else did, including our ancestors, you’re in for a bit of a disappointment.

After watching the movie with my friends, I discovered that people like this play for a variety of reasons: the historical aspects, the songs and/or the characters. 

People in Republican-controlled states like Texas and Florida and Arizona are getting sick now in rapidly growing numbers, instead of those bastions of liberalism like New York and California and Washington.

Nearly 90,000 Texans served in the Confederate Army. During the Civil War, 618,222 men lost their lives; 40,000 black soldiers lost their lives; and 578,222 white men died to free black people.

Please have extra vigilance wearing a mask if you feel unwell in any way and contact your primary care provider.

Klark Byrd’s editorial “Calls for justice should involve all” (June 30) has several mistakes.

Wearing a face mask swings the odds of good health in the public’s favor and reduces the need for government action until the pandemic has subsided.

Property taxes are much like a double-edged sword, and right now Lamar County Chief Appraiser Jerry Patton and his appraisers are putting the edge on one side of that blade — the appraisal side of the tax equation.

America’s Founders regarded a free press as so vital to the new nation that they took care to include that right in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Hopefully the urgency of unifying our country and maintaining the laws of our land for the good of all is understood. Without laws, we rot from within.

Our past has provided us a roadmap for the future, and the chase for “a more perfect Union” continues. Fortunately, this is America, where perseverance is a way of life.

It’s one obfuscation after another with the Louisville police reacting to media scrutiny, in addition to other allegations of similar behavior from the department.

It’s hard to see it from the longer perspective if you or yours have been hit particularly hard by Covid-19, but as we get a better grip on this pandemic, we are starting to realize we dodged a bullet. 

I wish everyone would really open their heart and their mind for one second and put themselves in someone else’s shoes. Above all, love one another.