For better newspaper

I have the opportunity to travel throughout the middle of the United States, visiting cities including Denver, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Louisville, Lexington, New Orleans and Shreveport. The newspapers provided in those cities are pitiful. We are fortunate to have the Arkansas DemocratGazette. In comparison to papers in other cities, the Democrat- Gazette is excellent. The paper does a much better job covering sports, world events, business, political, and local events.

The letters to the editor in our paper cover all aspects of Arkansas life and range from the ridiculous to thoughtful and rational. Letters in other papers are generally few and uninteresting.

With this in mind, let me offer some suggestions that will make the Democrat- Gazette even more interesting and better representative of the strong majority of Arkansans. With Arkansas now “hopelessly red,” as John Brummett complains, why do we have five columns each week by Brummett and Philip Martin and only two columns by Bradley Gitz and Dana Kelley? Even more lopsided are the cartoonists. During a two- month period around the last election it seemed the political cartoons were almost exclusively anti- Trump and anti- Republican.

A conservative like me wonders if Democrat- Gazette really wants to cater to the Little Rock Hillcrest group. Philip Martin, in one of his convoluted columns, expressed bewilderment on the last election because in Hillcrest he saw only Hillary Clinton’s yard signs. JERRY B. JACKSON

Heber Springs