Stephen Yeargin

A friend of mine pointed out today that I have not written a Letter to the Editor in quite some time. I can vaguely recall starting drafts for quite a few, but never bothering to send them. I had a fairly good success rate for having them published, but then again I would be deeply [...]

Ran in The Tennessean:
Sen. Corker’s support of Musharraf puzzling
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf blames former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for her own assassination. He then warns the United States that it will be met with fierce retaliation if it dares to cross into Pakistan in its search for Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile, he admits that finding [...]

Ran in The Tennessean:
Nashville needs to keep the Predators
We need a principal tenant for the Sommet Center, and keeping the Predators is a far better option than finding a replacement. Paying for a dark arena is like owning a sports car but never putting tires on it or gas in it. Depending on whom you [...]

Ran in The Tennessean:
Three-light system helps the colorblind
In a letter Sept. 10, H.M. Weingartner makes an excellent case for replacing Nashville’s incandescent lights with energy-efficient LED lights (“New LED lights could save money”). While I agree with his suggestion, I see a real need for keeping a three-light system.
According to a University of Washington study, [...]

Ran in the Nashville City Paper.
To the editor:
The nation has struck a remarkably bipartisan tone over the past few days, talking of ways to advance our great country’s goals both at home and abroad.
However, much like the recent U.S. Senate race tells us, Tennessee is again behind the curve.
In a statement to the media, Tennessee [...]

Ran in the Nashville City Paper:
Last Friday’s City Paper editorial (“Time has come for Wilder to remove himself,” p. 2) embellished one detail of his “speech” on the senate floor. He was not speaking to the general public, but was making his “rambling and sometimes incoherent” prayer to his god. His words were said out [...]

Ran in the Tennessean.
To the Editor:
You don’t have to go to the theater anymore to see well-produced fiction. Just tune into your evening newscast or listen to your various political pundits.
The New York Times reported that as many as 20 different federal agencies have released ”pre-packaged news reports” during the last four years, ranging on [...]

I’ve made a regular habit of reading the newspaper(s), and not just The Pacer. In fact, it’s one of my New Year’s resolutions, the first one under the “Enrichment” headline, followed by book reading and various outher ones.
So today, when skimming through The Tennessean (after a hint from Samantha), I found this gem:
To the Editor:
I [...]

As always, when I send in Letters to the Editor such as this one, and on the rare occassion the Tennessean runs them, I get feedback from readers. This is mainly because the folks at the City Paper tend not to run my e-mail address with my letter, I suppose to protect my privacy. [...]

It has been said that the best leader is one that doesn’t aspire to leadership, but does so out of duty to his peers.