JIM GRIFFIN

The recent opinion piece by Matt Kokkonen on terrorists from Syria (“To protect the U.S., vet immigrants,” Dec. 2) contains some sensible parts and a touching history of his and his family’s commitment to helping immigrants, and they themselves being helped by others when they were displaced years ago. Matt’s demands that would-be immigrants from […]

There is a deep-seated crisis in the country, and a mounting uproar, about police violence in general and police shootings of unarmed civilians in particular. Some people excuse the behavior of police pretty much no matter what. Many more people are putting forth ideas aimed at stopping extreme police violence by reforming the system of […]

In his opinion piece in the Aug. 1 issue of the Sun (“The economy is paramount”), Otis Page, the often times rather conservative opinion letter writer in various local publications, outlines a long litany of historical examples and anecdotes to make the labored point that people tend to develop or mimic prejudices against persons and […]