Please watch your children when they’re around water
The futures of the children who have drowned this year have been ripped away from them by careless people who are not watching them every minute.
You can’t take your eyes off little ones who are curious and love to explore.
Every time I read one of the stories and see the newscasters showing the pool where it happened my heart cries out. Where were those who should have been watching even if there was a fence.
There is no excuse for all these precious children drowning. You can’t take your eyes off them around a pool or anywhere else there is water.
Several years ago I lost a sweet great granddaughter, age 18 months. There were several people in the house each thinking the other was watching. I so regret I will never see her grow up.
The children don’t deserve this kind of fate. Please, everyone, watch those children. I don’t want to hear or read another story of a tragic loss.
— G. Tucker, Chandler
The thousand-year flood strikes and the left gripes about shoes
If the left has to resort to disparaging Melania Trump for her shoes, I guess that pretty much says they have nothing of substance to complain about as it relates to President Trump’s handling of the Hurricane Harvey disaster.
— Ken Doerfler, Glendale
Reporting is vital to the survival of our freedom and democracy
Events like the chaotic moments after Trump’s speech, when things unravel and become complex, tend to bring out the best in news reporters. Certainly that was true for The Republic and the local radio and TV reporters who, in spite of personal risk, went above and beyond the normal call of journalistic duty.
Their successful effort to capture history as it was happening is the essential role of the real media, once called the “Fourth Estate” of society, equal in importance to government, religion and the general populace. Editor Nicole Carroll’s evocative editorial (Aug. 24) documenting the work of reporters truly gave credit where credit is overdue. Thank you for highlighting the best of the best, for showing your readers what reporting can be and why it is so vital to the survival of our freedom and democracy.
— Susan Lynne Fuchs, Phoenix
Great job by Phoenix Police Department during Trump rally
During the latest Trump rally, our Phoenix Police Department officers did an outstanding job controlling and minimizing the misconduct of some of the anti-Trump protestors.
Police Chief Jeri Williams led from the front and Lt. Ben Moore directed the uniformed police response.
The tactics and force used were tempered with restraint and even-handedness.
The Phoenix Police Department planning