Opinion

The Fairly Good Mother: Creative ways to enjoy a night out — in

Here’s an ancient history question for all of my readers: Does anyone remember when the cost of your snack at the movies was less than the cost of your ticket? Or how about w ...

Reader Input: Can mural be saved?

This letter is in regards to the building at High and Lewis streets that will be torn down to build restrooms and a sitting area. Is there a way to save the outside wall facing L ...

Reader Input: Labels state the obvious

Jim Beall, Sr. must have been called unpatriotic (“We will question your patriotism,” Reader Input, June 11)? How devastating! For insight into name-calling, disagree w ...

Reader Input: Column supplies prison insight

What a fascinating commentary by Scott Thomas Anderson in Sunday’s paper (Another View, June 16). Thank you, Auburn Journal, for this informative reporting. In the past, ju ...

Reader Input: Genuine ‘newsie’ will be dearly missed

I am saddened to hear of the passing of my friend, Joe Carroll (“Longtime newsman passes away at 81,” Journal, June 16). He represented a time and period of news gath ...

Reader input: Freedom is over-rated

George Orwell in 1948 wrote of his vision of 1984. Summarized from the first two paragraphs he said: “big brother is watching you,” the caption said. In the far distanc ...

Reader input: Why do you hate Walmart?

I do not understand why so many people hate Walmart. I promise you they will not come to your house and drag you to the store and make you shop there. On the positive side they wil ...

Reader input: Prop 13 protects small business

If business properties are taxed at a higher rate, you can bet the consequences would be disastrous for the small businesses that make up the backbone of our economy. Most business ...

Reader input: Take corporate welfare out of sports

We need to take corporate welfare out of sports. Big money is corrupting the romanticism associated with sports. Money influence has ruined sports as an art form. Big business shou ...

Editorial: California’s counties could learn from the nation’s only prison rodeo

Editor’s Note: On April 20, Gold Country Media reporter Scott Thomas Anderson spent the day at the Angola Prison Rodeo, held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, two hours no ...