Letters to the Editor
Carl Owen
Finally, a Republican who speaks the truth. In the article “Drug-testing for dollars” (News, Feb. 29, Oklahoma Gazette), when asked if we test [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] applicants for drugs, why shouldn’t business owners applying for state incentives be drug tested as well, Republican Rep. Guy Liebmann replied, “If he hired somebody or brought in five more jobs, should we drug test him? He’s done the state a favor, putting them on the payroll and they’re going to pay taxes and use the local shops and eat out and so forth.”

Letters to the Editor
Ed Hart
Concerning the Personhood bill, why not have everyone who is against abortion sign one list, and everyone in favor of choice, sign a different list.

Letters to the Editor
Robert D. Allen
Reasonable fiscal policies produce jobs and, as the Clinton administration demonstrated, also meet the financial needs of the nation and balance the budget.

Letters to the Editor
Kevin Burns
Trust me: I know it feels good to take the stand that we don’t want our welfare dollars going to drug addicts. I still believe that, but I also used to think that universal drug testing to make that stand was the answer.

Letters to the Editor
Bill Davidson
In response to Wanda Jo Stapleton’s Jan. 18 letter to the editor, “Back to the Dark Ages”: That’s an unfortunate analogy, Wanda Jo. I’m pretty sure there were no easy abortions back in the Dark Ages.

Letters to the Editor
Nancy Roche
Shame on you, Oklahoma legislators, for caving in to the pharmaceutical companies’ lobbying to keep pseudoephedrine over the counter and not make it by prescription only. I wonder how many lunches they bought you and your staff, and how many vacations they promised you and your families?

Letters to the Editor
David Orr
The new session is barely underway and our legislators have found time to write all manner of bat@$&* crazy bills about zygotes, stem cell sweeteners and green lighting the teaching of mythology in science class, and now they want to drug test others?

Letters to the Editor
Clinton Wiles
Once again our Legislature and other public officials stand ready to protect us with laws to drastically reduce the amount of meth use in the state.

Letters to the Editor
Reece Kepler
As a conservative reader of the Gazette, I come expecting to be disagreeable to, frustrated with, and even angered by the majority of its contents. I continue to read out of amusement and because the

Letters to the Editor
D.W. Tiffee
In support of Republican plans to eliminate the state income tax, the deranged Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs claims that “states with no income tax and with the lowest overall tax burdens consistently outperform the high-tax states, the national average and Oklahoma.” (Commentary, “Point: Phase out state personal income tax,” Feb. 1, Oklahoma Gazette).

Letters to the Editor
Susan Schmidt
A 7-month-old relative has a mass in her brain located where doctors could only cut out 10 percent or cause blindness. She will soon start chemotherapy.

Letters to the Editor
Niki Bauer
In March 2011, my 21-year-old daughter, Cheryl Marie Bauer, was involved in a workplace accident that claimed her life. She was a great kid — a hardworking honors student who was generous to a fault.

Letters to the Editor
Sheila Crow
In November 1994 I resolved to start dating again, to perhaps even meet a man suitable for marriage … again. Every week I perused Oklahoma Gazette’s personal ads with curiosity. So on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I sat down to craft my own ad.

Letters to the Editor
Jay Means
The need to move local school board and city council elections to November is never more apparent than now.

Letters to the Editor
Andy Behrens
I must say a few words about your choice of cover for the Jan. 25 issue (News, “I want a new drug”), because I don't think I've ever seen a major publication in our city or state run something so exploitative and repulsive.