Silence is deafening

comes to putting all its negatives front and center yet doing little to nothing to make changes. It’s very political there. Its paper, now a shell of its former self, was always full of articles on crimes and issues of race. It was depressing to see it over and over and over for decades. Little wonder that Memphis’ population has been on the decline for 40 years.

It has been a breath of fresh air living in Little Rock. After multiple experiences with everything and everyone from the facility where you get your driver’s license and car tags, to the post office, to the grocery store, to the doctor’s office, to shopping, to our neighbors, we realized that everyone was about two standard deviations happier and friendlier here than in Memphis.

Let’s work to keep it that way. I hope the powers that be here pay some attention.

MARK MASSEY

Little Rock

Has anyone noticed how quiet Republican legislators have been regarding our country’s deficit since Trump became the president?

All we heard from them, day after day, was how terrible the deficit was when President Obama was in the White House, as if he was the one who frittered away the surplus and got us in the red. Oh, my goodness, our children and grandchildren would be terribly burdened if Democrats would keep spending and spending, they said over and over again.

But now, even after our current president gave huge tax cuts to the very rich instead of taking care of the infrastructure and the disabled and homeless veterans who came back from wars with all kinds of physical and psychological problems, and increasing the deficit needlessly, Republicans are totally quiet as if the deficit has magically disappeared.

But I have no doubts the deficit will come back with a vengeance as soon as we have a president who is a Democrat. ROSE GOVAR Maumelle