Reading at the Crossroads

Reading at the Crossroads is an archive for columns and letters which appeared in the Terre Haute Tribune Star. I also blog here when my patience is exhausted by what I feel is irritating, irrational and/or ironic in life. --gary daily

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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Letters written with clarity, power




Terre Haute Tribune Star, May 29, 2025

Letters written with clarity, power

The Terre Haute Tribune-Star does itself proud in the Readers' Forum on May 21 with four letters from local citizens that are thoughtful, fact-based, and written with clarity and power. I thank the writers for their speaking out in these depressing and perilous times. And, as I read the Readers' Forum each day, I have to wonder where are the responses in support of Trump? I'm certain the voters who cast their ballots for this man had their reasons, their justifications, at least their rationalizations for their support.

Speak up so we clearly see why there is support for this president and his lock-step enablers in Congress and the state legislature who are a danger to democracy and who do harm to those in our community most in need of help.

I'm looking forward to reading such letters. I have serious doubts, however, that such imagined letters will come near reaching the quality and fairness of analysis of those offered by Bill Cain, Nathan Myers, Kerry Tomasi and Clay Wilkinson this past Wednesday. Thank you.

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— Gary Daily