It’s Bryan for Corinth

Shannon Bryan is running for mayor of Corinth. I’ve known Shannon since moving to Corinth in 2005. My husband and I wanted to get involved in the community so we started attending City Council meetings.

We were very impressed with Shannon as a council member. She was curious. She wanted to know details behind decisions being made. She showed grit and fortitude. She wasn’t afraid of stating her opinion on issues and sometimes taking a contrarian view when things didn’t make sense.

Shannon is very community oriented and is a very caring individual. When we had questions regarding the community, and other council members wouldn’t respond to our inquiries, Shannon was always available to answer our questions.

I’m backing Shannon in the mayoral election. I think she’s very qualified to do the job. She’s very focused and involved in community projects and sincerely cares about Corinth. She is trustworthy and has integrity.

She has a vision for Corinth and with your support I believe she can carry it out.

Shannon demonstrates great leadership and decision-making skills, has extensive experience with her involvement with Corinth, and has unlimited energy.

Shannon is running on the following issues:

* Being fiscally responsible with our tax dollars

* Establishing a shared vision for Corinth

* Open communication between elected officials and residents of Corinth.

Please cast your vote for Shannon Bryan for mayor. She’s the right person for the job.

For more information on Shannon, please go to her blog at www.shannonbryan.blogspot.com

Brenda Smith,

Corinth

Remembering Lula Taylor

It was not long after my husband and I moved to Corinth at the end of 1979 that I first encountered Lula Mae Taylor. Lula was not a person you could ignore. She was passionately vocal about the affairs of our city and it did not matter if you were in agreement or not. Lula stood her ground in being heard by the City Council with regularity.

Lula loved Corinth and was active in city politics when Ray Meadows was mayor of Corinth. This was long before Corinth became a home rule city on May 6, 1999 — two years before I stepped down as mayor of Corinth.

Every city needs active resident participants in local government. Until the time she became ill, I doubt there were very many meetings Lula missed.

We will miss Lula! Our heartfelt condolences go to her faithful husband, Foy Taylor, and the rest of her family — their children and grandchildren.

We can rest in the knowledge that Lula is now free of pain, worry and care and is in a much better place where peace, joy and love reign supreme. May God grant peace and comfort to her family and friends.

Shirley Spellerberg,

Corinth

Abolish UNT football

The hoopla finishing up about basketball and March Madness leads me to a modest proposal about the University of North Texas football program.

Abolish it!

For athletics, concentrate on basketball and that wonderful Coliseum with its adequate parking lots.

I’ve heard rumors that funds have been diverted from the school of music to the football program.

Say it isn’t so!

One is internationally known. The other has turned into a haven for drug abuse, assault and no telling what else, or so it seems from how it makes the news.

The main argument for keeping football seems to be that it attracts donations from alums. Put their names on classrooms!

Let’s hear it for academics and educating the soldiers who’ll be coming home from the wars.

Dolores Vann,

Denton

Controlling the mob

During the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, a phrase originated that described the atmosphere of the times, “panem et circenses.” This translates from the Latin as “bread and circuses.” It is a phrase that applies equally well to the present state of our American empire.

The phrase refers to the public desire for free bread from the government (welfare) and for the public’s desire for free and continuous entertainment (circuses).

The leaders of the Roman Empire supplied both to their citizens to remain popular with the masses and to maintain nominal control of the mob.

So, as our great American republic continues its sad descent into socialism and the moral depravity of the welfare state, it is perhaps a good time to look at our priorities on the local level.

A great many people are losing their jobs and homes as our economy collapses under mountains of debt. Our highways are falling apart and our bridges are falling down. People are without proper health care and sleep in the streets.

Our response? Build a $78 million football stadium at UNT with “commercial paper.” The new stadium will only be fully utilized about six days per year.

And I doubt very much if the Bataille-Villarreal-Dodge trio will even let the homeless sleep under the stands of their monument to “Panem et circenses” when it is completed.

Fouts Field is not the “wreck.” Our loss of moral values is the true wreck.

Martin Kemplin,

Denton

Creation and science

The writer would like to thank Mr. Steven Gore [Letters, April 5] for accusing him of twisting the Bible. Sir, that was not the writer’s intention.

Please, read from our Bible, Genesis, Chapter 1, Verse 1: “God created the heaven and the earth.”

Did you know that science has never been able to create anything? The best science has been able to do is make over and change that which already exists. As per global warming, our liberal friends are now calling it “climate change.”

Please read 2 Peter, 3: 10.

Mr. Gore further wanted the writer to prove what “ice age” was present when the “climate change” took place.

The writer is unable to answer that question; however, we do know the climate warmed up and melted the ice glaciers and human habitation is not the cause of global warming.

Tillman E. Uland,

Denton