Bowman: Frankly, I think at this point it is not a question of if, but when, there is a fatality involving a cyclist on the streets of our fair downtown.

Malone: Charles Long’s letter regarding Stacey Campfield [“Recall!” Oct. 18, 2012], I’d like to pass along some exciting news

Blackburn: Deb Hardison bemoans the “ultra-divisive, partisan, polarized nation we’ve become” where Republicans are called ignorant, homophobic racists [“Back to the Middle,” Letters, Nov. 15, 2012] and then promptly describes Obama supporters as spoiled, lazy, uninformed reverse-racists.

Tedford: Ed Westcott is a treasure.

McDaniel: Mr. Dooley is destined for something much more meaningful than coaching football.

Lewis: While sitting at the Square Room on a Saturday evening taking in the sad songs of Mary Gauthier, I came up with a brilliant idea on what Knoxville needs next. I would like to see a wrestling match between ...

McCarty: Just a short comment, to address the length of a college football game [“Overtime,” Insights by Joe Sullivan, Nov. 8, 2012].

Hardison: To Jerry Bone, whoever you are [“A Motley Crew,” Letters, Nov. 3, 2012]: To generally castigate Republicans as ignorant, homophobic racists, and leaderless as well, does us no service.

Schneider: Letter writer St. Thomas LeDoux [“The Majestic Cherokee,” Oct. 3, 2012] sang the praises of the Cherokee National Forest, and invited habitual Great Smoky Mountains National Park visitors to venture into this national forest located right next door. Having ...

I can’t help but think this was Kevin and Coury’s alcohol-induced idea after having too many Blue Moons. Knowing it’s better not to go near confused men under the influence of alcohol, I refuse to turn the “second front cover” ...

We have some folks parking cars in their front yards, and there’s been a recent epidemic of indoor upholstered furniture appearing on porches. In East Tennessee we used to call this sort of thing “trashy.” And it is.

Clemens: This is a strange America, no longer the one in which ideals were the dream, competence was the goal, and everyone wanted the best for themselves and others. It brings to mind a line from an old Jack Nicholson ...

Denison: Yes, Harry Potter fans, there really is magic out there! Only the Bible calls it the spiritual world, which it says is more real than the physical world. Where do you think this physical world came from?

Bone: I enjoyed Frank Cagle’s critique of churches and the Republican Party and, in fact, welcome their impending irrelevance. [“None of the Above,” Frank Talk, Oct. 18, 2012] Unfortunately, a lot of harm will be done in the meantime.

Gill: How many readers of Metro Pulse or of the Knoxville News Sentinel are really aware of the growing disparity between the incomes and wealth of society’s top earners and those of the middle- and lower-class ones?