About the letter claiming prayer is a waste of time (See: “Prayer failure,” June 6), the only waste is the time spent arguing.

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Why is a person allowed to accumulate $3,400 in traffic fines? It seems that this should have been rectified when the fines totaled $500, or another artificial number agreeable to the sheriff.

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My family couldn’t believe your Sunday headline, “Too tough on traffic offenders?” Nor could we believe anyone would complain about being credited nearly $340 a day toward paying the fines, even in a stinky jail!

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I would have guessed bleeding hearts Bud Kennedy or Bob Ray Sanders might have written the headline on the story about a woman being jailed 10 days for not paying more than $3,400 in traffic fines.

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Tina Komlenic had a choice to drive responsibly, as do most law-abiding citizens. If she had done this, then no tickets, no jail time, no having to sleep on that dirty mattress.

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Tina Komlenic runs up $3,400 in traffic fines and has an expired car registration. She’s put in the Mansfield jail, where after 10 days her fine is wiped out at $338.45 per day. (See: “Too tough on traffic offenders?,” Sunday)

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I find it interesting that Bud Kennedy, as a member of the press, would argue against free speech and that a high school principal would be accused of threatening a valedictorian for exercising it. (See: “Joshua valedictorian finished his speech, but he’s still talking,” Friday)

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The Supreme Court’s decision that Oklahoma doesn’t have to sell water to the Tarrant Regional Water District means Fort Worth and Dallas may become very unpopular across North Texas. It puts more pressure on the thirsty big cities to increase supplies in ways like building the Marvin Nichols Reservoir near Mount Pleasant, where the project is very unpopular. Are we bad guys when it comes to water?

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A recent article showed that seven inmates have died from heat over the past several years because of conditions in our state prison system. Reportedly, temperatures reached over 140 degrees in some facilities. (See: “Texas prisons sued over heat deaths,” Saturday)

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The only thing I am interested in seeing discussed during an extended legislative session besides redistricting is a Texas-style solution to expand Medicaid.

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