Phil Drietz

The writer of the Oct. 6 letter, "Reasons to vote for Trump", says: "I am a 'pro-Amtrak' Republican and 'right-wing' Democrat. I endorse Donald J. Trump for president and Collin Peterson for Congress. Both are pro-gun rights. Both are also pro-life." I question the term "right-wing"...

I’d like to thank Tribune editor Kelly Boldan for that May 12 description of what letter writers can and cannot do, most notably: “Actually, any newspaper under their First Amendment right to publishing control can decline to publish any letter or advertisement they choose. See...

In the April 8 letter to the editor titled "Beliefs vs. science", the writer asks: "What makes one person deny the consensus of climate scientists and another to accept it?" You cannot always accept a scientific statement just because the majority of scientists go along with it;...

Remember about five to six years ago in West Central Tribune when CURE and other environmentalists were telling us we had to stop the Big Stone II power plant project because it would cause more global warming and put more particles into the atmosphere? Now it looks like they may...

The April 25 “Hard questions on abortion” letter to the editor says: “A woman has a right, and a say on what she decides to do with her body, and like it or not, the decision is hers.” The problem with that statement is that the fetus (child) inside her body is not her...

Early this year I bought a set of combination wrenches, and as I removed it from the display rack, I noticed something different about the package wording of the next set. It so happened that I got the last “Made in U.S.A” set, the next sets were made in China. Over the years,...

In responding to my Aug. 20 letter, the author of “Thoughts on carbon dioxide” in the Aug. 24 paper completely dodged my main point, mainly that America’s contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is very tiny and therefore irrelevant to the so-called global warming problem. The...