Higginsville Advance Opinion

School Vouchers Impact on Rural Schools

Dear Editor, The Higginsville Advance has now had the retirement of another great asset to the paper, Doug Booker. Doug has been a fine communicator and he has always been open to listen to anyone who has stories they would like to see covered in our local paper. With the recent possibility of our community losing the newspaper, I am glad that threat has been eliminated for the time being, but the loss of Mr. Booker will not be avoided, unfortunately. Thanks, Doug, for all your hard work and providing us with years of reliable news. I'm sorry to see you go, but happy retirement! Dennis Stewart Dear Editor, On February 12 at a White House event with President Trump, Lee Zeldin, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, announced the repeal of EPA's 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and the repeal of all federal GHG emission standards for many vehicles. This is the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.

First , I would like to say that as the son of a member of the 82nd Airborne (Vietnam) and the father of a Marine who served three tours in Iraq, thank you for your service. I would like to address your recent article titled Evolution of LCC-1 High School Soccer. You repeatedly state that there are sufficient student-athletes to support a soccer program; however, toward the end of the article, you indicate that the program would be coed and operate on a junior varsity schedule. This suggests that there may not be enough students within the district to field either a boys' or girls' team independently.

I have read several letters from Dennis Stewart published in this paper. I’m so proud of you, Mr. Stewart, and I send you my deepest thanks for writing what has needed to be written. I stand with you.