Elinor Petuskey

Reader Input: Educate for the common good

This is the season of graduations and young people stepping out into the world full of hope and plans. I would like to share a quote from President John F. Kennedy: “There ...

Raeder input: US Senate: an embarrassment

You are absolutely right Elinor Petuskey, (US Senate’s gun vote shameful, by Elinor Petuskey, April 23). It is incredibly shameful when senators who are supposed to represe ...

Reader Input: US Senate’s gun vote shameful

I want to applaud Rosalie Wohlfromm for her letter calling out the United States Senate for their shameful vote against universal background checks on the sale of all guns in this ...

Newcastle Measure K a non-starter

The supporters of Measure K have signs sprouting all over the place that say “End the Tax, Build the Station.” That’s like saying, “do away with all birth control and reduc ...

Measure K falls short

I supported the Measure B parcel tax for the Newcastle Fire Protection District (NFPD) which passed with a 68.7 percent vote. Measure B provides the revenue flow needed to build a ...

Limbaugh’s a pervert

Re: “Knight Obama to the rescue,” Reader Input, March 16: So, Mr. (Robert) Carrell, I would laugh at your letter if it wasn’t so pathetic. I think it was very nice of Preside ...

Measure B benefits all

Re: “Measure B deserves ‘yes,’” I agree with Elinor Petuskey (Reader Input, Feb. 28). I am dismayed that the people of Newcastle are even debating the value of their own Ne ...

Measure B deserves ‘yes’

Please support Measure B, a parcel tax for Newcastle residents, designed to save the Newcastle Fire Department and provide an appropriate level of funding for years to come. I und ...

Newcastle firefighters deserve support

This letter is in response to the article about Newcastle, “Residents questioning management of fire district,” (Journal, June 26). I have happily been a resident of Newcastle ...

Weary of Gaines double-speak

We have yet another election coming up on Tuesday, May 3, at great expense to us, the taxpayer. We have to shoulder all this expense because our “fiscally responsible,” now St ...