California could do a number of things to hold these wildfires to a minimum and make them less severe.

How else can you explain all the Christian conservatives looking the other way while he has told 5,000+ false or misleading statements in two years?

We’re all just people trying to live our lives. The more we remember that and stop the “us vs. them,” the more we win.

Re “Alabama’s repugnant new policy” (Editorial, Nov. 9):

Please let Hurricane Michael cause us to remember all those poor, unfortunate souls who are just barely hanging on in Puerto Rico. At least a thousand dead last year and another two thousand in the year since.

Thousands of desperate Hondurans are heading toward the U.S. border in hopes of a better life and escaping violence and poverty. President Trump is sending military troops to make sure they can’t enter. Trump mentioned that criminals are among them. There are always bad apples in the basket,…

I was pleased Oct. 11 to join several dozen interested community members and leaders for a breakfast meeting of the Military and Security Affairs Committee of the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce. We were fascinated to learn from Col. Tanya Rogers, director of the Fort McClellan Army Natio…

We will have our 28th annual Veterans Day Ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday at Anniston’s Centennial Memorial Park.

If you’ve ever seen The Shawshank Redemption, perhaps you remember this line: “Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

Re “Alabama must expand Medicaid” (Speak Out, Nov. 3):

Since the recent Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings, President Trump and the Republicans have started a media frenzy of bashing and blaming Democrats for all the wrongs and evils of this country — the same as they did during the presidential campaign of 2016.

Re “It’s time to send Gov. Ivey packing (Speak Out, Nov. 1):

This is an open letter to all the women voters in this country, and I only have one thing to say. It is the only solid truth about the coming election. Our daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters will pay the price if we vote the wrong way. So vote, but weigh the consequences very…

I want to set the record straight about state Sen. Del Marsh. There were many who misrepresented facts about him during the primary election.

As a retired educator and community member, I ask you to re-elect Mike Almaroad to the Calhoun County Board of Education.

The Star’s recent editorial on the Alabama secretary of state’s race came to the wrong conclusion.

State Sen. Del Marsh says, “politicians just don’t get it,” government is “simple.” In fact, he’s a 20-year politician who wants people to think he has no responsibility for our state’s mess and for millions flowing from education into accounts managed by friends.

Re “Hospital closure, school choice, divide state Senate candidates” (News article, Oct. 31):

Underneath the politics of distortion are real human beings. Does anyone think that those who have risked their lives by crossing the desert or who walk hundreds of miles in the hot sun, often with their children, are doing this for any reason other than desperation?

The Anniston Muslim community, along with the rest of the nation, is shocked by the brutal and inhuman shooting of innocent people last week in the Pittsburgh synagogue.

Please seriously consider voting for Walt Maddox for our governor. Kay Ivey refuses to debate anyone, Republican or Democrat. Is she afraid she will be asked a question she doesn’t want to face, or is it simply ignorance?

On Tuesday, vote for Mallory Hagan for Congress. She wants to represent us, the citizens of Alabama’s 3rd Congressional District.

Please vote next Tuesday for my friend, Mike Almaroad, for the Calhoun County Board of Education.

I read last Sunday where the United Nations, the anti-American anti-Israel organization that it is, has again issued a pro-Palestinian vote by allowing Palestine to head the Group of 77 next year.