Letters to the Editor

Reporter video made relative proud

Nothing is quite so exciting as looking into my laptop and seeing a beloved member of my family!!!!! Your fish art article was a joy… Continue reading

  • Mar 27, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Planning to picket Lingerie League

In Saturday’s paper, you said The Reporter had only heard from a “handful” of Kent residents objecting to the subject event at the ShoWare Center.However,… Continue reading

  • Mar 27, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Newspaper demise predicted

It was 1947 and I met an elderly Mongolian in Japan who was 114 years old and a direct descendant of the great Genghis Khan.He… Continue reading

  • Mar 27, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Reader reactions to Lingerie League are no surprise

The reactions the Kent Reporter received on their story of ShoWare Center’s booking of Lingerie Football League games was entirely predictable.

  • Mar 24, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Reader offended by officials’ comments

I was offended by the opinions of our local officials in your article defending an outrageous activity, Lingerie football, published on the front page of the March 21 issue. (“Leaders weigh in on Lingerie League.”)

  • Mar 24, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Fair labor contract needed

I am a teacher in the Kent School District. I wish I could say those magic four words that so many teachers are expected to say: I love my job.

  • Mar 24, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Going from classy to sleazy

Mayor Cooke’s comment in your article (“Leaders weigh in on Lingerie League, March 21) is telling: “When we opened the ShoWare Center, we got into show business - and show business runs the full gamut.” Another way to say that would be “show business runs from classy to sleazy and ShoWare will get sleaze”.

  • Mar 24, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Enforce cell-phone law or remove it

Isn’t it against Washington state law to drive using a hand-held telephone? Why do drivers continue to ignore the law? If the law isn’t enforceable… Continue reading

  • Mar 20, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Reporter taken to task for lingerie photos

You probably assume that when you don’t hear from your readers that you’re doing a good job. So I must share my disappointment with the… Continue reading

  • Mar 20, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Lingerie event promotes perversion

It always amazes me how far we will push the issue of pornography. Lingerie Football is just this.A father will take a son to a… Continue reading

  • Mar 20, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Lingerie league selling sex

I would like to second the negative comments regarding the lingerie football venue at our new Showare Center.This is right up there with the bikini… Continue reading

  • Mar 20, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Lingerie league defames Sept. 11

I am shocked that the city of Kent is allowing this sort of graphic retarded man candy to go on, let alone on Sept. 11th, a day that we should be remembering our country and the people who died. Instead men (and some women) will be watching this “football” match hoping to see a breast popping out or a slip of the tiny panty.

  • Mar 17, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Shame on ShoWare

What a shock to open the Kent Reporter last Saturday morning to read (and see!) that the “Lingerie League comes to Kent.” Is that what taxpayers bargained for when they agreed (through their elected officials) to fund this center? Is there a Citizens Advisory board that has input into which programs are brought to this city-funded venue?

  • Mar 17, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Lingerie league hurts local sports culture

Dear Reporter, it was so good to see lingerie-clad female football players on the front page of the Reporter and know that the fields where families once watched boys and girls play soccer outdoors for exercise, fun and teamwork are now the ShoWare Center where families can sit indoors and watch scantily clad women play football.

  • Mar 17, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Lingerie venue selling sex

“There has been no negative feedback so far to having women in lingerie playing football at the Sho-Ware Center.” (Kent Reporter front page lead story March 14, 2009.)

  • Mar 17, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Lingerie league insults women

Lingerie football is insulting. As a 40-something female, I remember campaigning just to be able to play sports in high school. Not only were female… Continue reading

  • Mar 17, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Newspaper photo triggered memory

Your recent “Kent Opinion” notice (Feb. 28, “Quote of Note” by Amelia Earhart) was a unique incident for me.I am a World War II handicapped… Continue reading

  • Mar 13, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

4-H program not in danger of ending

As you no doubt know, Washington State and the U.S. are facing an economic crisis unlike any that most of us have experienced. This crisis has affected, and will continue to affect, every aspect of our lives.

  • Mar 13, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Backstrom needs to check his facts

While I often disagree with Mr. Walter Backstrom’s opinion, I occasionally read his column as a way to better understand the perspective of other members of our community.

  • Mar 10, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Prevention training needed for kids

Earlier this month the Oregonian newspaper reported on the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Alycia Nipp down in Hazel Dell, Wash., which is just north of Vancouver.

  • Mar 10, 2009
  • BY Wire Service