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 4, 2009
Greensboro College changed my life and made me the person I am today. In addition to my degree, I graduated in 2005 with a whole new set of life skills, including leadership abilities, a proficiency for critical thinking, and a keener sense of the world a...
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Hats off to Ed Hardin regarding his story about UNCG Athletics Director Nelson Bobb. UNCG did “lose a good one.” I had the opportunity to work with him on the Advisory Council for Inter-Collegiate Athletics (ACIA) for three years, and being a...
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After reading the June 23 article regarding rainfall, I wonder if it’s time to redefine the “normal” amount of precipitation.We’ve had summer droughts for several years, and we’re always told what our rainfall is compared to...
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Gary Parker writes in the N&R that other countries’ health care systems and life expectancies are better because they have national health systems.Much of the difference in life expectancy between the U.S. and other countries is a result of our...
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I am very much for revising the habitual-felon rules with more programs for nonviolent drug users being put in place.Long prison terms are costly and make inmates bitter against society. We also should take another look at more first-offender and interven...
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As a concerned American, I am sick and tired of our politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, passing legislation they have not read. Voting on 10-page or 1,300-page bills that nobody reads is an outrageous dereliction of duty and an insult to th...
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Counterpoint:By Marie Hopper I am writing to express my support of keeping our local farmers’ market local.As a health-conscious and planet-conscious consumer and local citizen, I feel it is vitally important to support family farms and those f...
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July 3, 2009
Since our City Council has set an example for our citizens by regretting the CWP/Klan-Nazi shootout (by an overwhelming vote of 5 to 4), I have been fretting over their regretting. In fact, I have never heard anyone say that they do not regret this shamef...
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I have concerns after reading your recent article, “Greensboro College fending off creditors” (June 28). How was the detailed accounting data from the college’s accounts payable records obtained, since the college is a private entity who...
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I hope I was not the only reader to notice the troubling connection between Bobbie Hege’s letter, “On issues of abortion, turn to the word of God,” and the political cartoon, “Theocracy Explained” (June 24).In her letter, Heg...
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Counterpoint:By Edward Sanz and Paul Schmidt
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Citizens of Greensboro, wake up to what’s happening to your YWCA! How can we justify letting the Y sell its building and have to relocate and curtail its many services?Do you even realize how beneficial these services are to the community? Who is go...
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The debate over health care insurance has been heating up. There is certainly ample evidence that the current health care environment is unhealthy: 46 million Americans are uninsured, health care costs are becoming unaffordable, and even the insured canno...
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July 2, 2009
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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