Your Letters: Feb. 2, 2021
Reader Submissions
Insurrection
Our friends on the Left have their shorts all wrinkled up over the events that occurred on Jan. 6 at the Capitol, and now they’re excited over the impeachment trial, set for the first week in February, in hopes it will bury Trump for good.
I just hate to burst their bubble, but the real insurrection happened in January 2017, when Obama, Biden, Comey and the rest of that corrupt administration plotted and set into motion the conspiracy using the FBI to overthrow the newly elected government. Of course, they didn t rush the White House, but they didn t have to. They used sleight of hand.
Valley Voices: The 2020 High Desert Liberal Awards
And the winners are.
Special to the Victorville Daily Press
No one I know would dispute the observation that 2020 was a downer of a year, but at least one thing was encouragingly up, and I am of course referring to the number of letters printed in our local paper.
After a three-year decline, the 850 letters printed in the Daily Press in 2020 represent a 20% increase over 2019. This uptick also represents good progress toward a return to a time when the letters counted over 1,500 a year.
The majority of 2020 letters focused on just two closely connected topics: The coronavirus and Trump (his approach to the virus, his first impeachment and the election).
Your Letters: Jan. 29, 2021
Reader Submissions
Old downtown
Memories of a bustling business district in downtown Victorville came flooding back as I read in the Jan. 22 edition of yet another fire-damaged building on Seventh Street being demolished and disappearing as if it were never there.
In the early 1970s, my husband, Jim, and I opened the first bicycle store in the valley on lower Seventh. We were surrounded by full-of-life enterprises that still bring thoughts of sunshine to mind. The Downtown Café, Jantz Jewelers, Lee s Chinese-American Restaurant, Powell s Appliances, Cotton s TV (who could forget Pinky Cotton?), Layne s Women s Apparel, Western Outdoor Hardware, Victorville Chamber of Commerce. The list is long and nostalgic. Around the corner, on D Street, was Cal s Pawn Shop. Does anyone remember seeing Neil Diamond in “The Jazz Singer” walk past there and look in the windows?