Talk about a marketing ploy! The GOP has done it again. I can’t recall of ever seeing a picture of …
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Vivian Martin Letters to the Editor Aug. 3, 2016 1:00 am3433d ago
Talk about a marketing ploy! The GOP has done it again. I can’t recall of ever seeing a picture of …
Mark Edwards Letters to the Editor Aug. 2, 2016 1:00 am3434d ago
Authorization for taking private property away from individual landowners and allowing an out-of-state limited liability corporation (LLC) to use their …
Jan Tomkins
Letters to the Editor Aug. 2, 2016 1:00 am3434d ago
The topic considered is tools vilified by association with Hollywood productions. These are turned into symbols of feared groups who …
Stan Wiederspan
Letters to the Editor Aug. 2, 2016 1:00 am3434d ago
After 25 years I have closed Wiederspan Art Gallery located on Mount Vernon Road SE at 34th Street. It has …
Don Taylor
Letters to the Editor Aug. 1, 2016 1:00 am3435d ago
Recently, I read a letter from Shirley Burnett who said don’t vote for Donald Trump (‘Cast your vote for Hillary …
Steve Sovern
Letters to the Editor Aug. 1, 2016 1:00 am3435d ago
‘But somebody’s gonna get killed,” my friend from the YMCA proclaimed three times during our usual chat in the YMCA …
Lee R. Overton
Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2016 1:00 am3436d ago
I get it. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. Highways and streets are for everything else (cars, bikes, trikes, motorcycles, tractors and …
Ken Collier
Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2016 1:00 am3436d ago
While biking to work I’ve seen cars blowing through stop signs and even red lights. Most cars are speeding, some …
Mary A. Craig
Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2016 1:00 am3436d ago
The city added bike lanes to keep cyclists and motorists separated and safer by allocating designated space for each on …
Bob McAllister
Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2016 1:00 am3436d ago
Regarding the July 1 letter ‘Bike lanes are confusing, dangerous” by Mary Price: Before you could put bike lanes on …
Greg Dengler
Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2016 1:00 am3436d ago
I ride my bicycle almost every day and many of my bike rides include riding along public roadways. A primary …
Jared Hills
Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2016 1:00 am3436d ago
How many bicyclists must be killed in rear-end collisions before they will be allowed to ride on the left side …
Gary L. Roberts
Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2016 1:00 am3437d ago
There is an old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. The pen no longer is any mightier …
Kaye Haslam
Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2016 1:00 am3437d ago
Two years ago we went to a concert at Noelridge Park and once was enough. There was so much goose …
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