LETTERS: Debating the Second Amendment
Ever since the mid 1960s when the NRA changed it stance from being pro-gun control to being against it, and the AR-15 prototype was...
LETTERS: On Trump and gun reforms
What Trump doesn’t knowA headline in The Monitor, “Trump doesn’t know anything about immigration” has bugged me ever since I read it several weeks...
LETTERS: On gun violence and a border wall
Get NRA convention to RGVThe National Rifle Association reportedly has been asked by one member of the Dallas City Council to move its upcoming...
LETTERS: On Mercedes transparency, respecting the dead, border wall and property taxes
Texas has public information and public meeting laws to promote open and transparent government. A Rio Grande Valley city skirting these laws, however, is...
LETTERS: On rant against president, voting packets, Pharr ‘stonewalling’
Regarding the Feb. 13 column “The silence of the lame,” it is apparently a strong, but difficult to understand, rant against our president and...
LETTERS: Local Olympian, Obamacare criticized
Not smilingRegarding The Monitor’s Tuesday (Feb. 13) editorial, “He makes us all smile” about McAllen’s German Madrazo who is competing in the Olympics for...
LETTERS: On exercising your right to vote
Go vote!A nationwide movement is underway. This movement has several facets. One facet is to increase the number of registered voters. Another is to...
LETTERS: On runaway national debt, Hidalgo County commissioner and drainage ‘flim-flam’
Runaway national debtAs a 95-year-old WWII veteran, I have followed politics since Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt I don’t think it has...
LETTERS: On making Lent, not Valentine’s Day a priority, bishop says
A Lenten Valentine’s DayA recent headline in Reuters: “Fasting or champagne? Valentine’s Day, Ash Wednesday in rare confluence,” hits upon a question that many...
LETTERS: On drug kingpins, cross-country local standouts and PBS programming
Capture the drug kingpinsThe true illusions for the border wall are not fake news. The reasons given for the border wall are to stop...