Letter to the Editor: It's obvious

VINTON TODAY
October 13, 2025 11:59 pm

Dear Editor,Braden, LindsayWho is holding up passage of the CR bill? Senator Schumer and  Hakeem Jeffieries.  DEMOCRATS! President Trump has nothing to do with it.

Letter to the Editor: Where is the Respect for Jan. 6th Dead and Injured Police

VINTON TODAY
October 13, 2025 10:55 pm

Dear Editor:I have to respond to a recent answer to a letter. How dare anyone state that “Cops weren’t being beaten” on January 6th, 2021. If you want to spread misinformation and lies about Jan.

Letter to the Editor: The Shutdown and Peace

VINTON TODAY
October 9, 2025 9:15 pm

Dear Editor, Ninth day plus of the Senator Schumer government shutdown.   What is the real rub?  A trillion and a half dollars subsidy to remotely make Obamacare remotely affordable.

Letter to the Editor: Security

VINTON TODAY
October 7, 2025 10:57 am

Dear Editor, Greetings and salutations:If your Christian church or Jewish synagogue does not have a security detail, get one - NOW.We are in danger from the militant left.

Letter to the Editor: The Democrat Party – "Weapons Free"

VINTON TODAY
September 26, 2025 3:50 pm

 Dear Editor,In the military there are a host of commands used to control the use of weapons when an enemy is engaged.  One of these is “Weapons Free” — “Weapons Free, which denotes an order that weapons may be fired at targets not positively identified as friendly.

Rising Above Political Violence at this Turning Point in the USA

SENATOR CHARLES GRASSLEY
September 25, 2025 2:18 pm

It was a week before Thanksgiving Day in 1963. I was halfway through my shift at the punch press at Waterloo Register. A manager came up to me on the assembly line and said, “JFK was shot.

Timing is Everything in Comedy

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
September 19, 2025 11:18 am

Imagine if your job description is simply to make people laugh. You get a show on Comedy Central and host it for four years. The show at best is crude.

Letter to the Editor: Anger later, Sadness now

VINTON TODAY
September 13, 2025 8:26 pm

Dear Editor,A good man, a father, and loving husband was killed by an untrained assassin.   a severed jugular- no hope of saving his life.   I was as angry as I ever have been in my life and then came sadness and pity for those who loved him.

Letter to the Editor: Rushing to Conclusions

VINTON TODAY
September 12, 2025 3:10 pm

To the Editor,I along with other Democrats and liberal thinkers condemn political violence at every level.Before anyone had been arrested for the shooting of Charlie Kirk, those on this page as well as many in the country were assigning blame to Democrats or anyone thinking differently than themselves.

Jesus defeated death so you can live

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
September 11, 2025 2:16 pm

There are so many reasons that Charlie Kirk will always be head and shoulders above the calculations of my own goodness. As I heard of the shooting and ultimate death of Kirk on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, it was a moment where I had a less-than-Charlie-Kirk-like reaction.