Opinion – Letters to the Editor
Check facts
Facts. Fact checking. Not a strong suit for the Transcript to date. I’d first like to say go Lash Out, Tiffany Durfee from Grantsville (“Grantsville’s queen of lashes now exporting expertise,” Mar...
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Don’t just shoot for the moon
Not so long ago, there used to be an expression “shooting for the moon” that meant aspiring to achieve the impossible. Well, not only have we sent satellites to orbit the moon and landed there, bu...
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Demand for apology deserves apology
Regarding the letter by Harvey Caldwell “No show of sportsmanship” (March 2), this brought to mind the incident involving the Utah- BYU football game. Max Hall of BYU called the University of U...
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City Hall neglects Newtown
This is a comment to the State of the City speech (“State of the City,” full text, Feb. 18). Once again Mayor Patrick Dunlavy has told us of his accomplishments and also what he hopes for Tooele i...
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Principal swap causes uncertainty
I would like to offer my sincere thanks to Mr. [Jeff] Wyatt for his work as principal at Grantsville Elementary School. I am hopeful that we will have the opportunity to work with him again. I am ...
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Keep Judge Pitt in office
What a sad and sorry day it will be for Tooele law people — all of us, in fact — when Judge William Pitt is no longer a judge (“Judge Pitt set to retire after 19 years,” Feb. 23). Aren’t laws supp...
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Police do get it wrong
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Reading the letter by senior citizen Kay Singletary (“Police mistake caused embarrassment,” Feb. 15) brought back fresh and unpleasant memories of a similar incident that I experienced at the hand ...
Sant salary is suspect
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After reading Mayor Patrick Dunlavy’s “State of the City” address (Feb. 18 issue) and how he was dealing with the tough economic times, I read the article on the next page regarding Tooele City’s e...
No show of sportsmanship
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This is sportsmanship? To the student body of Tooele High School: You are all classless dolts who have no clue about decency or fair play. To shout “traitor” at a high school basketball player [dur...
City workers must show respect
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In the older days, when a person treaded in a mischievous manner onto a burial ground, they were in violation of disturbing the grave and paid the consequences. The Tooele City Cemetery grave caret...
Partisan system working fine
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Perhaps Matt Rowley should define for me the meaning of “nonpartisan” (“Time is right for a nonpartisan county commission,” Feb. 9). If Tooele City is his example and he doesn’t know the politics o...
Red state leaders just say no
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I’ve been observing our political system at work here in Utah and nationally. In the many years I spent working in quality assurance, I have to relate back to many observations I have made over the...
Police mistake caused embarrassment
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On Friday, Feb. 5, I was stopped in Tooele while driving west on Vine Street by [Tooele City Police Department] Officer [Anya] Brennan for speeding. I had no problem with that, if that is what I wa...
Other options for new jail
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Is a new jail really needed (“Sheriff says new jail needs to be built quickly,” Feb. 9)? For $22 million? Why not reoccupy existing, empty military barracks at the Tooele Army Depot? Beef up fencin...
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