Letter to the Editor: For anyone who has read Alan Cheah’s column, “Thirty Rounds” in the Sierra Star (1/17/13), please consider my response before buying into his imaginary world, absent of all reality. Mr. Cheah spends considerable words having you imagine the senseless deaths of the children in Newtown and how a smaller magazine capacity on his Mom’s gun would ...

Guest Columnist – Alan R. Graas, Chief Economist, Sierra Asset Management Over the past few years we have expressed increasing concern over the soaring national debt. As we look to the end of this decade, we view the growing national debt as our single largest economic concern. We hope the following question and answer format will help you better understand ...