Opinion

I’ve refrained the last eight months from pushing my viewpoints about wearing masks during the pandemic onto others. Still, medical studies are showing that the practice — one which I’ve implemented in public since March — is proving beneficial to stopping the spread of the coronavirus...

To the editor, As a person who tends to believe that people are generally good, I have a hard time understanding the reason why people would vote for a President who is so obviously such a horrible failure of a human being. There is no reason to bring up Donald Trump's draft dodging, his numerous sexual assaults and affairs, his false Christianity, his habitual dishonesty,  or his businesses that he has bankrupted because of his own incompetence. ...

To the editor, If a psychic made a bunch of predictions and they all came true, you would probably believe everything they predicted from then on. Of course you would. Well, hundreds of bible prophecies have come true so far, but not everyone believes in God or the Bible. And that’s a shame; because when the end of time comes, as predicted in the Bible, there will be a lot of people left behind...

To the editor, The Two-Party Subsidiaries of the Oligarchs, wherein the Democrat and Republicans representatives implement the will of the Super Rich, have a Stranglehold on the ElectionMachinery. From Rick Snyder's Interstate Cross Check Voter Purges, to limits on Early Voting, to Sabotaging the Post Office, the Rethuglicans are trying to Suppress the Voter Turnout...

To the editor, Now with the November 3rd election nearing we ask ourself who will be elected President of this great country. We ask ourself who are these two men seeking to be our president for the next four years. Who are these two men wanting to be the next Commander in Chief of our country? When you travel around the states you see yard signs, and very large display signs of each of these candidates, but do we the people really know who they are, and if elected will they fight to save our democracy as we know it?. ...

To the editor, Regarding Ms. Adcock’s October 10 letter to the editor, I want to address two of the many issues with which I disagree. First, in June of 2017 Senator Kamala Harris joined the unanimous vote for a resolution marking the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.  Included In this resolution was the moving of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  Joe Biden held no office during this time.  However, Joe Biden did vote for the measure in 1995 when he was a Delaware Senator, and he has stated that if elected president he would keep the embassy in Jerusalem.. ...

To the editor, I, for one am sick of liberals Monday morning quarterbacking on Covid-19. Nobody in the liberal camp wants to look at the timeline of what was known when. We were getting mixed information from the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, WHO was covering up for China. ...

To the editor, As the general election draws near the confusion grows deeper.  I listen to all the dour faced pundits and doomsayers and have reached a conclusion:  the Democrats have absolutely no agenda to offer America on which to base their aspirations for gaining control of the US. ...

To the editor, Early voting has started. I hope everyone will go vote and vote early. This is our opportunity to take our country back. The far-right Republicans has held our country hostage for to long. This is the year we can clean house as my mother used to say. Not only do we need to replace Trump, but we do not need to send Trump and his trolls back to Congress. We do not need to send Bill Hagerty to Congress. We have enough far right radicals in government already...

To the editor,     Beyond all the back-and-forth, the bitterness and arguments, disagreements and passionate vitriol that seem to be in play right now, there is one truth that all sides can agree on: Elections have Consequences.     We are in the midst of an historic set of crises, any one of which could damage our society irreparably. ...

To the editor, Tuesday’s ad by the Democrat Party is laughable! Instead of touting their candidate’s accomplishments, they had to go back to 1935 for Social Security establishment and 1966 for Medicare establishment. Voters want to know what your candidate’s policies are now. ...

To the editor, This letter is to address an ad which was run in the Oct. 3rd. issue of the Times Gazette, page 12A.  That ad seems to imply that if you have social security or medicare, you should thank a democrat. What the democrats actually (gave) you was (another) pay-roll check deduction, allowing you to give yourself social security and medicare. If you find this hard to believe, just look at your next paycheck stub...

To the editor, On Monday (9/28/2020) I mailed my absentee ballot to the Coffee County Election Commission as I wanted to make sure my votes would be counted. Now with having said that I would urge and like to see every registered voter vote when the early voting starts on October 14, 2020. ...

To the Editor, First of all, my boyfriend, Jacob Bartlett, and myself are not anti-police and we do not support the defund the police movement. Secondly, I would not say Jacob was heavily intoxicated. We were grilling outside because we both had the day off and both had two or three mixed drinks. Jacob never resisted police after he was handcuffed...

A Davidson County chancellor took much-needed action last week. She gave public accountability a boost and set the Attorney General’s Office straight on the Open Meetings Act. Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ruled on Friday that the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance violated the Open Meetings Act by holding an email vote — outside a public meeting and without public notice — to approve a settlement with a lawmaker, substantially reducing his outstanding fines. ...

To the editor, Mr. Fanning's piece in the Opinion section of the paper is nothing but rhetoric. The Trump presidency will go down in history as a great presidency. The impeachment will go down as a partisan effort by Democrats to take out a duly elected president. There were so many fraudulent episodes with that impeachment it's hard to know where to start...

While millions of acres burn out West, Democratic governors in Oregon and California are in heated debates with President Trump about who and what’s to blame for the massive wildfires in their states. The governors say climate change is to blame for the scope and intensity of the fires. (The implication here is that because Trump has done nothing to try and rein in climate change, he is to blame for the fires.)...

To the editor, I am a mother of five children. Three are veterans. I am saluting all veterans even the "losers and suckers" who died while serving our country in the military. May God forever bless you for attempting to make our country safe. Thank You! That's what makes America Great and not to be belittled or use malicious, cutting words to smear or disrespect all you. Again, thank you. JUST SAYING!...

To the editor, The closer we get to the November 3 election we witness Trump getting more desperate. He has become more and more erratic and disparaging with his statements as he watches every poll showing he is behind Joe Biden. The latest book by Bob Woodard, supported by eighteen audio tapes over a period of time, has revealed an alarming fact about Trump...

To the editor: The COVID-19 crisis has affected most of us in some way or another. Non-profit organizations like United Way of Bedford County have been especially hard hit. Despite the uncertainty of the situation, which seems to change from day to day, United Way of Bedford County decided to hold its Shrimp Boil, rechristened “Mardi Gras In July “ the final weekend of the month...

Do we live in a democracy?  Well,  yes and no.   We don’t live in a true democracy.  In a true democracy, governmental policies that affect the majority of citizens are voted up or down by the majority of citizens. We live in a Republic.  In a Republic, citizens vote periodically for an agent — the so called representatives (congress, senate) — who decides on the best policy, (law) for all the people.  We also vote for a president to faithfully carry out those laws. ...

To the editor, As a veteran serving in the U.S. Army in Korea and in the civil service as an embalmer with the U.S. Air Force in Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam War, I feel compelled to write this letter. During the Vietnam War 58,000 soldiers lost their lives, and thousands more lost their lives in other wars serving as U.S. Military Service men and women. They died fighting for the freedom every American citizen enjoys today...

To the editor, I believe the First Amendment of the Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of people to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances.” That is not “hot air” Mr. Brown...

Our agriculture industry is an essential part of our economy, bringing in nearly $75 billion of revenue per year. In particular, Bedford County is one of Tennessee’s top-producing agricultural counties. We need to ensure that our farmers are treated fairly – something that the previous Administrations – both Democrat and Republican – have failed to do. In President Trump, we have a leader willing to stand up for fair and reciprocal trading terms for Americans’ access to agricultural markets...

To the Editor, Now that the Democratic Party Convention and the Republican Party Convention has come and gone the campaigning will begin. Each Presidential candidate will be telling us his vision, and how they intend to lead and govern our great country. Each candidate has a very starkly different vision on where they will lead if elected as our commander-in- chief...