Thank you, Don Mathews, on two fronts. As a scientist and engineer, I love the phrase “In the absence of facts, all opinions are equally valid.” Your column was loaded with facts that were used to support your point. How refreshing.

What exactly is an acceptable risk? Does the percentage that comes to mind change if the risk involves your beloved hometown and the barrier island that brings around 60,000 tourists annually?

As a Southerner, I resent national media’s blaming the South alone for slavery while absolving the North of any culpability. Interestingly, it was largely black scholars that first reported the North’s involvement in slavery and the initial lawsuit seeking reparations was filed against North…

The heavy rains over the last few weeks were so hard wipers had trouble keeping the windshield clear enough to see oncoming traffic. Sadly, some folks drive without their lights on, making it hard to see them. 

Several of us have placed numerous Democratic candidate signs on St. Simons Island only to find most consistently removed. Put up en masse, they are removed en masse.

I am a freshman at College of Coastal Georgia majoring in marine biology. With that being said, I have a concern with our beaches in the Golden Isles. Our beaches are slowy eroding away each year. The process speeds up with every hurricane.

Earlier this summer I wrote two letters to the editor that The News published — one on Democratic Socialism and Communism and the second on the Mueller Investigation. Each letter received a published response one from Penelope Allingham on the DS letter and a second from Bob Thigpen on the M…

One topic discussed at commissioner Murphy’s town hall meeting was restricting use of golf carts on major streets on St. Simons Island. This notion defies logic for a number of reasons.

It’s your vote, why wouldn’t you use it?

Well, here we go again, trying to find a way to enforce traffic laws without having to yield to pressure from constant breakers of the law. We have laws on the books regarding golf carts that are not being enforced. Why make new laws until current laws are enforced.

Comments in The Brunswick News and local town hall meetings often plead for restrictions on island development. The only assured way to restrict development is to remove the land from the developers’ target list.

At the Supreme Court nomination hearings in 1987, we demonstrated that public character assassination was a very effective political tool. When that technique failed in the 1991 hearings, we tried a last-minute character “lynching.” Now, in 2018, we are attempting what looks to me like a las…

When billions of dollars in climate-change damages are reported, profits made by those whose activities cause and magnify such impacts are seldom mentioned.

Thank you very much for your thoughtful editorial in (Thursday’s) News. It covers the ultimate expression of the island’s rejection of “high-density development” on St. Simons Island. For the past two years, island citizens have clearly expressed their opposition to island development in var…

I agree with Mellissa Smith the incident at Brunswick High School must be a wake-up call for everyone to stand up and take notice. The real question is “what if” there had been a real shooting or a bomb. In todays world, there are to many unknowns around us.

There are two railroad crossings on Glyndale Road, between U.S. 341 and Old Jesup Road. Both are very bad, but the one closest to Old Jesup Road is by far the worst.

What a positive move made by the Sea Palms West homeowners. Their decision as a neighborhood to pony up and buy the Sea Palms West 9 Hole golf course was indeed the right thing to do!.

I am writing to praise the ladies in the front office at BHS.

I am writing to you today about the article in your paper concerning the threat made to Brunswick High School on Monday, specifically about what officer Ellis said. There is no such thing as an “empty threat”. Whatever this boy’s intention was, my hope is that this will result in an eye open…

I was disappointed in the headline of Taylor Cooper’s front-page article in last Wednesday’s Brunswick News. The real “news” is not that the developer of the Sinclair tract is seeking to withdraw their appeal — of course they are, now that they have gotten what they wanted. The real news is …

Bernie Sanders won, too.

On Sept. 8, Sea Palms West homeowners overwhelmingly approved the purchase of the 9-hole West golf course from the Sea Palms Resort and convert it into a lovely green space.

A couple of days ago, a reader expressed support for a roundabout at the intersection of Kings Way and Frederica Road. Personally, I am now a believer in roundabouts after initially having had serious reservations about the original Demere Road/Frederica Road roundabout design.

I am a big fan of Larry Hobbs’s CrimeScene. His use of the language to describe what might otherwise be mundane reporting is a must read. Kudos Mr. Hobbs.

On behalf of the State Bar of Georgia, I would like to express congratulations to U.S. Magistrate Court Judge R. Stanley Baker Jr., of St. Simons Island, on his nomination by President Donald Trump and recent confirmation by the U.S. Senate to serve as a judge of the U.S. District Court for …

Given that either installing a roundabout or adding left turn lanes at the Kingsway and Frederica intersection will cost about $750,000, I can’t see why it’s such a hard decision.

Don’t support the change of the name of the Russell Building to the John McCain Building. Richard Russell’s politics were in line with the way the general population thought at the time. He was the leader of the Senate of the United States. He was an elder statesman who was admired by everyo…

Thank God for Sheriff Steve Jessup of McIntosh County. The facts show that he is enforcing the traffic laws as they are intended. In counties like Glynn, our law enforcement of traffic violations are politically motivated and disastrous. Just look around and see who gets by with what.

A while back a fella told me, “We don’t want a bunch of Yankees who moved down from Atlanta telling us how to run things.” The next week the county commission made it clear that they agree with him as they neutered the IPC, removing all voice from those “Yankees” who live on the island.