This is my last letter to The Star. I have written many letters. Some you print, some you don’t. In every case I have tried to address serious subjects in a serious way. Usually, I am prompted by something in the news.
I can’t do it any longer. The news is no longer serious, and the people in the news are even less so. For example, in Missouri we have a governor who allegedly bound his girlfriend and threatened her. And his party is defending him.
And a president of the United States wants to arm teachers and give them bonuses for substituting as Green Berets, when they’re not trying to get their students’ attention otherwise.
John Chapman
Gladstone
