Opinion

Aroldis Chapman no longer throws the unhittable 106 mile-per-hour fastball for the Cincinnati Reds. Now, he's around 99 MPH with his fastball, a sick 88 with his slider, and these days even more difficult for National League batters to hit.

The Editor: Far too often when issued a traffic citation, we fail to realize these men and women are serving and protecting.

Sometimes technology gets so advanced, we lose sight of the original goal. Take distance education for one example. The instructor need not be physically present in the time and space where the students are. So by extrapolation, nor does the student.

The Editor, SaskEnergy recently announced that its price for natural gas for residential customers has decreased by 16 per cent and its monthly basic charge has increased by 6.7 per cent resulting in the average annual bill dropping by $50.

The Editor: It was my first time at this doctor's office in Estevan and I waited some 40 minutes after my expected appointment time (not unusual but a tad annoying), before I was called.

With the discussions Canadian politicians and business people are having about the Dutch disease, (resources and higher dollar values undermining manufacturing), maybe it's time for Canadians to revive our moribund manufacturing sector with a little

The City of Weyburn has put forward its budget for the 2012, which will have a zero-per-cent increase in property taxes as it's proposed, or a one-per-cent tax increase as some of city council would have it.

We are into the fourth week of May and Estevan Motor Speedway has yet to host its first race night of the season. The track's original opening date of May 5 had already been washed out, postponed over 24 hours in advance due to heavy rainfall.

The idea of agriculture needing to be responsible to nature is hardly a new concept.

Just the other day I came across a letter that was posted on the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) website. It addressed the federal budget cuts concerning the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) by the Government of Canada.