The board at Continental Ranch continues to abuse their power by breaking yet another rule. Our governing documents clearly state that each house in the development is a “Member.” Each Member has only one vote in the elections, regardless of how many owners that house may have. Yet, we have two board members who own one house (only) and yet both serve on the board! So, they only have one vote in the elections, but two votes on the board! When I attempted to reason with the board’s Mesa lawyer (yes, he’s from Mesa, not Tucson!!!) the essence of his response was that they won the election, so we should just live with it, kind of like the Obama Administration (I have no idea what Obama has to do with this issue).

The following is a Facebook post on one of my grandsons’ Facebook page. “My beautiful mom she means the world to me I don’t know what I‘d do without her! I have the BEST MOM IN THE UNIVERSE!!!” It also had a picture of her smiling and making a victory sign. This brought tears to my eyes. This grandson has grown through a pretty difficult life and I realize the depth of his statement. He is 20 now, has his own apartment, works as an assistant manager for Jimmy John’s, attends Pima County Community College, and is an aspiring artist. 

Al Melvin (Melvin thinks bold ideas will carry him in governor’s race...May 1, 2013) would make a perfect governor for Arizona, thereby keeping alive an almost unbroken 30-year record of intellectual midgets in that office.

It seems as if the public cares very little about foreign policy and are more concerned about what happens on reality TV than our own national security. We see the pictures of the North Korean dictator entertaining Dennis Rodman and fail to comprehend that this young man has a lot of deadly weapons under his control. We have 35,000 troops sitting between his border and Seoul, South Korea - a distance of 25 miles. For the past few years we’ve debated the value and the cost of our military assets, but right now we should be grateful that we have the magnificent forces we have and that we are equipping them with the latest technology such as the F-35 fighter jet. The maniacal Kim Jong Un may cause all kinds of disasters, and we will be ready to defend our own soldiers and our allies.