Editor,
Let me recite some history for you.
Partly cloudy early followed by cloudy skies overnight. Low 58F. WSW winds at 15 to 25 mph, decreasing to 5 to 10 mph. Higher wind gusts possible..
Partly cloudy early followed by cloudy skies overnight. Low 58F. WSW winds at 15 to 25 mph, decreasing to 5 to 10 mph. Higher wind gusts possible.
Updated: June 19, 2026 @ 5:44 pm
Editor,
Let me recite some history for you.
At times in our past, when we have overcome something difficult, or when the economy has been strong for a few years, we have taken to partying with wild abandon.
This happened after the Civil War during the Gilded Age party known as the Gay Nineties (1890s). After our “success” in World War I, we partied it up royally in the Roaring Twenties.
After we saved the world from Hitler and Nippon (Japan), we settled down to get our bearings and then threw the biggest party the planet has ever seen, remembered today as “the 60s.”
Now, on the verge of coming out of the 2020 pandemic, we are poised to party again like never before. And we believe with all our shrunken hearts, dilapidated minds and portly bodies, that things will be “back better” than ever before. They won’t.
We have lost all sight of our civic values. America’s messy decay and torrid decline is only just beginning.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
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(1) comment
Well written, Kimball. It is not surprising we see many individual states rebelling against bungling Biden’s policies and successfully passing state legislation to ignore Biden and his idiocy.
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