It’s not about bathrooms

Editor, In response to Marti Suchsland’s letter… my goodness, wouldn’t your grandchildren benefit more from love and acceptance than judgment and hate? I am struck by...

Downtown lawlessness

Editor, I went to the Post Office this week and it brought back memories. Remember Manny and Larry? They were the parking meter guys that...

Enough is enough

Editor, I’m not a psychiatrist and I don’t play one on TV, so I am understandably confused by my fellow citizens who are Trump’s supporters....

Good eating, good giving

Editor, Thursday at our farmers’ market I tried to give a jar of fresh peach preserves we had made to our Filipina friend who is...

Use money for those already here

Editor, I have seen much news about ES’s CAPC, and why? Does this town really need advertising and promotion? Last news was that it has...

Pay it forward

Editor, I love that you have letters to the editor though of course I have to read all the great Tweets of the Week first. Local...

Test it. Stop it.

Editor, It’s crappy that a mass-feeding confinement factory like C&H Farms is operating on the Buffalo River National Park watershed. C&H is part of a larger international...

Independent thinking

Editor, We always enjoy your “Independent Thinker” column. The eclectic individuals and groups highlighted share the common denominator of trying to make the world a...

Last week’s The Coffee Table

Wow, did you ever hit the nail on the head. I have lived in San Antonio, Denver and Chicago, and very few times have I...

Tickled funny bones are a good thing

Editor, We are so grateful for the ES Independent. You have kept us so well connected to our community – its joys and sorrows –...