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Letters To Editor

Editorial response

January 6, 2009

Dear editor: Regarding your recent editorial on the use of coal for energy production and your derisive use of the term “radical” to describe Nobel scientists such as Mr. Chu, who favors the use of renewable energy sources, it is difficult to comprehend your motivations. Burning coal is a major source of the CO2 that has contributed to the melting of the polar ice caps, the worst case scenario being the inundation of Manhattan and Florida. Surely that is a more “radical” possibility than the foresighted search for renewable sources of power. Enough solar energy strikes the Earth in a single hour to furnish humanities needs for a year if it could be harnessed efficiently. What is “radical” about developing that clean, inexhaustible supply? At present coal is cheap, but hardly the only option when innovation and mass production could combine to produce a new economy.Your editorial reeks of unimaginative thinking at a time when the world needs people like Mr. Chu to open closed eyes.

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Apology needed

January 6, 2009

Dear Editor,

I am writing this in regards to the Salvation Army. I think it is a great thing that they do in our community like serving a Thanksgiving dinner to the public, providing daily meals to people, and giving lots of things to t

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Editorial response

January 5, 2009

In response to Monday’s “Chu-ing through coal” editorial:

Claiming that coal does not harm the environment is a blatant lie. There is coal, and there is cleaner coal. However, there is no such thing as “clean coal.” All of the byprodu

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Israel and Palestine

January 3, 2009

Dear editor:

Israel’s Strategy for Permanent Occupation of Palestine requires that negotiations must take place once in a while, if only to project an image of Israel as a country seeking peace. All the while the Israeli’s continue to b

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Credit cards

January 3, 2009

Dear editor,

I am very much disgusted with the Warren County School District, especially about credit cards. Why to they need credit cards? What’s the problem with writing checks? Maybe too much for some of the overpaid employees? Either

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City lights

January 3, 2009

Dear editor:

Topic: The beautiful lights at the City Building on 3rd and Hickory St

From my apartment, I watched this man in a Frewsburg N.Y. truck, I think it’s called a “cherry picker”, go up to top of the 80-100 foot fir tr

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