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Reader’s letter misunderstood

In response to Mr. (William) Smythe’s “Reader Input” letter to the Journal on May 22: I included “disabled Americans” in my letter solely because these words are include ...

Ditch 3Rs and now teach this

Re: SB 48 to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and disabled Americans in public school history and social science courses. In the name of political correctness, “fairn ...

Cure for an inside job

The solution: We disguise ourselves as stockbrokers, oil barons and lobbyists for the health insurance industry (that made U.S. health care the most expensive on earth) and for fat ...

Don’t skip over historical facts

Willard Schmehl (Reader Input, March 24) alleges illegal involvement of Democratic presidents in overseas military operations, yet holds George Bush up as the great defender of the ...

Governor has global outlook

People in the Middle East revolt because their rulers conspire with global corporations, like big oil, to line their pockets while their people stagnate. They revolt because there ...

A cuppa joe, the Journal and thou

How much do you love your coffee? It’s great to enjoy a cup or so of joe in the morning while reading the Auburn Journal. Recently I did a little research on the cost of coffee. ...

Ground Zero mosque offends

Re: Construction of Islamic Center near Ground Zero, NYC. Question: Why should the liberal feelings of “progressive” Mayor Bloomberg, and city officials, trump the feelings of ...

Resolve issues under lockdown

We hear a lot about how our country cannot seem to get it together on, for example, health care or education. My bet is that if you locked down a group of the most ultra-conservat ...

Slow the global corporate drivel machine

The advertising sleezeballs who market our political candidates are of the same ilk who portray BP as a “green” company. Those with the resources to employ them crudely manipul ...

Fifty-five deaths and counting

I am a retired social worker and I have telephoned everyone that I could reach and have tried unsuccessfully during the last jumper tragedy (No. 55) (Journal, Oct. 20) to find out ...