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What We’ve Been Trying to Say . . .
Mostly, scanning the local papers for this blog, I see history repeat its errors, over and over and over. Newbies recycle failed plans and call it exciting. Rinse, repeat. Rarely,…
Letter to the editor
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Count to Ten before Becoming a Goat
It is wise to stay out of politics and stick to public policy analysis. Not only does it help your affiliates retain their 501(c)(3) status, and not only does it…
Education
UNC professor embarrasses self with ridiculous Common Core letter
Robert Sealock of Chapel Hill has something to say and the News & Observer let him say it! In his May 3 letter “ A standards evaluation commission the way…
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Drop Your Bliss, Follow Their Pitch
Some travel to chase storms. Others like to visit relatives and other loved-ones. Some like outdoor sports or locations of historical significance. But most base their travel decisions on the…
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Insights on Occupy
I enjoyed the letters to the editor of the Asheville Tribune last week. Accessible here, they’re the ones with the Oct. 20 date. They pertain to the occupy movement.
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UPDATE: Ellie Light meet Mark Spivey
Ellie Light, the Obama sockpuppet I posted about yesterday, has a colleague. Someone named Mark Spivey has done much the same thing with letters supporting Obama. UPDATE: Two more Obama…
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Best letter to the editor competition
Here is my nominee for the best November letter to the editor: Hawks being hawks Surely your No. 23 article “In a Cary backyard, death swoops down” was in jest.…
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Oh, to be Correspondent of the Week
Winston-Salem Journal editor Carl Crothers discusses changes to the paper’s editorial page. I read Crothers’ piece with an open mind and it frankly would be laughable if it didn’t reflect…
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Palin’s lynch mob mentality
The N&R indeed fact checks a letter to the editor, the lack of which has been an issue around here lately. Honestly, I don’t have the time or the smarts…
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Free trade is just awful
At least according to Vermont’s socialist senator Bernie Sanders, in a Wall Street Journal piece he wrote last week. As expected, he drew deadly counter-battery fire from people who understand…
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UNC-Wilmington’s Seahawk falls for another mass-distributed letter
I discovered this phenomenon by coincidence last fall. Now I’m suspicious every time I see a letter in a college newspaper from anyone far removed from the university. Chuck Mann…
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Now that?s more like it!
Here?s the kind of letter to the editor that we just don?t see enough of. It was printed today in the Daily Dispatch of Henderson ? actually, the fact that…