Dear Editor: The case of the Fitchburg teenager who is accused of trying to kill another teen at her home by stabbing her with a knife reportedly admitted to previousl…
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Dear Editor: Pundits will probably be telling us what we can learn from the recent tragedy at Fort Hood. I’m not a pundit. I’m just a layman, but I know a few things we could learn from that sad incident.
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Dear Editor: There are plenty of good, workable solutions to global climate change. The problem is that most of them do not meet the American capitalist class’ requirement that they produce an obscene profit and pose no risk to the capital invested.
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Dear Editor: FBI crime data released at the end of September provide some truly fascinating and wonderful information. According to the FBI, the nation’s total violent crime rate has dropped to a 35-year low. And the murder rate is at a 43-year low.
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Dear Editor: Because of our tax system there is about $13 trillion locked offshore. Businesses do not want to pay the 39 percent corporate tax required to bring that money home. When the FairTax plan passes we fully expect trillions of dollars to flood the United States and provide growth…
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Dear Editor: Wisconsin Books to Prisoners, a project of Rainbow Bookstore in Madison, is a volunteer nonprofit organization that has put thousands of books into prison cells statewide since 2006.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:00 am | Loading…
Dear Editor: What is more important: $400 a month to a multi-billion-dollar company, or our nation educating its best and brightest? A pound of flesh, or increasing diversity in academia?
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Dear Editor: I recently attended the Wisconsin Girls High School State Swim Meet. The competition was fierce, and the sportsmanship of the girls was impressive. Sadly, some of the meet security staff behaved like a bunch of bullies. They yelled at both swimmers and spectators when polite …
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:45 am | Loading…
Dear Editor: The so-called “cable consumer repair bill” introduced recently by state Rep. Gary Hebl would gut the successful Video Competition Act that was enacted in January of 2008.
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Dear Editor: Most Americans are not in favor of this health care bill. Kill the health care bill now!
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:30 am | Loading…
Dear Editor: Conservative Republican Party member Bill Richardson must have learned well the lessons of information manipulation and fear-mongering from the recent Bus…
Nov 19, 2009 | 5:00 am | Loading…
Dear Editor: Thank you for the “ ‘Street’ smarts” article in which UW media experts discuss the educational value of “Sesame Street.”
Nov 19, 2009 | 4:45 am | Loading…
Dear Editor: Fortunately, the Department of Agriculture decided to retire the tiara as part of Alice in Dairyland’s uniform recently, but the taint of the beauty contest lingers.
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Dear Editor: Next year the Obama administration’s proposal for amnesty for illegal immigrants will go to Congress. A recent Zogby poll was taken in Mexico to gauge public opinion on emigration to the U.S. Fifty-six percent of respondents thought that an amnesty would result in more emig…
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Dear Editor: Rhetoric should have meaning. Language should have value.
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Dear Editor: Leave it to the Madison City Council and Mayor Dave Cieslewicz to OK the $37 million new library -- pretty fancy price for a homeless hangout! Why couldn’t they spend the money to build a homeless shelter? Or better yet just not build anything more until the economy improves.
Nov 18, 2009 | 5:00 am | Loading…
Dear Editor: The bottom line: We don’t want to pay for good teaching.
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Dear Editor: November is National Family Caregiver Month. In Dane County, an estimated 42,000 relatives, spouses, partners, friends and neighbors are family caregivers, providing unpaid assistance to keep people living in their own homes and out of long-term care facilities for as long as…
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Dear Editor: Our country is teeming with the conveniences of technology. At the park I overheard a mother ask her young daughter, “Honey, would you check your cell phone and tell me what time it is?” I know cell phones often seem to rule our lives, but once I saw a 6-year-old with one…
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Dear Editor: The government cannot manage the H1N1 flu vaccines. How can they manage a health care system?
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