Opinion

As a long time reader of the local and regional West Texas papers, it is disheartening to once again see Alpine city politics get ugly. I follow the news as best that I am able from a distance, because I love Alpine.

The Manuela Vega family would like to take this opportunity to thank family, friends, and the Guadalupanas for the food, thoughts, and prayers during the loss of our beloved mother Manuela. During times like this, we realize how much friends and relatives really mean.

Right now parents are being pressured to give an experimental injection to their children. It is not legal to put any conditions on any person, let alone a child, to have this vaccine.

“And the seasons they go round and round, the painted ponies go up and down, We’re captive on the carousel of time.” The 1970s song by Joni Mitchell captures what it feels like to watch Alpine city council use personal grievances to try and steer our lovely town of Alpine. After reading last week’s letter by Dale Christophersen, I join him in the hope that our newly configured city council would use integrity, clear facts, and hard work.

For those of you who still obey bogus face mask orders coming from narcissistic autocrats, here are some things they’ve been suppressing and may be blocked from your conscious mind. In the beginning we were told not to wear masks.

With the recommendation to inject children, the promise of booster shoots for adults, and enormous social pressure to be injected, it is time to demand what is ours by law, informed consent. Here are some minimum conditions of informed consent.

I became a licensed tree expert by examination in Illinois in 1975, and a certified arborist in California in 1999. My experience is vast, beginning in Atlanta, Ga., in 1973 and working in 20 states and five Canadian provinces, retiring last year.

One of the comforts that carries us through crises such as we are experiencing as a nation on multiple fronts, especially leadership, is the wisdom imparted by those who have gone before, and whose ideas are still with us.