Letters to the Editor must be restricted to 200 words or less; Couterpoint essays must be 400 words or less.You must provide your real name, home street address, and a daytime phone number. Only your name and town of residence will be published.All letter...
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July 2, 2009
Is anyone staying abreast of what is in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454) passed June 26 by the U.S. House of Representatives? The bill passed by a 219-212 vote with 44 Democrats voting against it.The bill is so massive, however...
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It’s a good thing Charles Davenport admits in his June 28 column about Judge Sotomayor and the Ricci case that his childishly transparent story about reverse discrimination is fiction.Indeed, the entire column is fictional in its complaint about a f...
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Counterpoint:By Walter Sperko Could it be that when you become a Nobel Prize winner, you get to make up your own facts? This appears to be the case in Paul Krugman’s “Current economic crisis had origins in Reagan administration” (N......
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In response to Tom Arcaro’s column June 28 (“Nonbeliever: Is there a place for professed atheists in America?”):I fail to understand why some folks are offended by my atheism. After all, neither God’s existence nor nonexistence is...
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State Reps. Earl Jones and Pricey Harrison deserve praise for sponsoring a bill to legalize medicinal use of marijuana. All patients deserve access to their medication without fear of prosecution, and the Medicinal Marijuana Act supports this universal be...
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Thank you, News & Record, for printing some positive news when so much negative surrounds us these days.Recently, a short comment was made about my dad’s independently owned grocery store, Bi-Rite Supermarket, in Stokesdale in the “Good St...
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July 1, 2009
Allow me to express some random thoughts: • Will Rogers certainly described the present when he commented on FDR’s first 100 days. His simple statement was, “Congress doesn’t pass legislation anymore. They just wave at the bill...
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This is a letter in protest of raising, yet again, taxes imposed on tobacco and alcohol. I personally do not consume tobacco or alcohol, but both have been taxed to death and it is time to look for alternatives.It’s time that we look to create an &l...
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It was disappointing to see that the City Council finally knuckled under to pressure and voted to “regret” an incident that occurred more than 30 years ago. Pressure exerted from a small (but loud) group of crusaders otherwise known as the Tru...
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The following is a Counterpoint:By Ryan MonsonRegarding Charles Davenport’s May 31 column: I can’t recall ever reading an article with so many skewed “facts.” I would like to focus on four of them.“Fact”: Teachers are w...
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I have seen truth and reconciliation in action. Two men, polar opposites, sat in front of me as we all shared a meal. A 40-year old black man raised in Morningside Homes with vivid memories of bodies in his yard back in 1979. Beside him, a retired corpora...
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June 30, 2009
I just want to say I am thankful for the smoking ban that recently passed in North Carolina. While I understand that many are upset at this loss of “personal freedom,” I am thrilled that I will now be able to enjoy my own “personal freed...
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The rules put into effect by Parks and Recreation concerning the Farmers’ Curb Market are hurting the farmers and, ultimately, consumers. Let consumers decide what is local to them, whether produce is only from Guilford County or North Carolina.The...
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Mary Bonaccorsi’s letter (June 24), which praises Medicare coverage, is about as contrary to popular myth as one can get. “Government can’t run anything properly,” the myth goes, “Just name one thing they can!”Yet my 89...
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