By Mike Lavelle November 11 is Veterans Day, and we honor our military veterans for their service. In this column, however, I want to focus on one group of veterans – that is those veterans...
Category - Letters From the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding Incorporate Vail’s article in the April issue of the Vail Voice: Vail Arizona is much more than “just” a...
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Letters to the Editor for September 2021
Dear Editor, My husband and I are both Tucson natives and we moved to Vail about 20 years ago. When we first arrived in Vail we...
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Letters to the Editor for June, 2021
Dear Editor, I am a concerned parent and member of the Vail community. I attended the school board meeting last week and have...
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Letters to the Editor: January 2021
Dear Editor: When is The Vail Voice going to hold DVI, and the contractor, and Pima DOT, accountable for the existing, pending...
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From the Editor: The Buffalo Soldiers of Fort Huachuca
By Mike Lavelle The Vail Voice often features stories that address the history of the old west, of Vail, Tucson, and close-to-visit towns in the southwest. Readers are also aware that our...
It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times
By Mike Lavelle I have always wanted to write something starting with this well know phrase from Charles Dickens’ novel, “A Tale of Two Cities.” In Dicken’s novel, this phrase is part of a...
What to Do When it is Hot Outside
By Mike Lavelle The news media has recently reported about the heat wave that swept across the country, and Europe (Britain saw record days of heat, for July, with temperatures over 100...
Promoting Community
By Mike Lavelle French author and political theorist, Alexis De Tocqueville, in the 1830’s, the propensity of Americans to develop civic associations, and how these associations...
From the Editor: Mike Lavelle
Fathers, Mothers, Teachers, and More By Mike Lavelle In this issue, we recognize the valedictorians and salutatorians from our area schools. If time and space allowed, I suspect we could...
Scams! Robocalls! Cons! Oh my!
By Mike Lavelle As the paper is getting ready for print, I heard on the news that Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is reporting people receiving phony TEP calls. It seems over 100 people, in one...
From the Editor: April 2018
The Vail Voice Bids Goodbye to Two Writers and Welcomes Another As our long-time readers know, The Vail Voice continues to grow in size, even if slowly. One of the areas in which we also...
From the Editor: Mike Lavelle
As the past year comes to a close and a new year looms ahead, it is natural to take pause to consider one’s path and goals in life. Along these lines, Anne Gibson on page 5 surveyed members...
Good Reasons to Give Thanks
The recent large lotteries resulted in news stories of people standing in long lines seeking to buy tickets. In some of these news stories, people told of their dreams of what they would do...