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Letters, Feb. 10, 2012
Closing the school-to-prision pipeline In response to Response to Jason Landberg’s column (“DPI’s study leaves much to be desired,” Feb. 9): Instead of padding the Department of Public Instruction’s pockets to sit at a quiet desk in Raleigh to “analyze” data that may or may not be accurate, our state government can make the largest impact by ...
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Letters, Feb. 9
The ironic twist It's good to see LaMotte Akin ("A reminder of history," Feb. 6) on this page again. Having myself expressed the same opinion in love letters about former President Bush, LaMotte's mentioning Bill Clinton's failure to veto the deregulation of the financial sector (something heavily supported by "conservatives") is to be commen...
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Letters, Feb. 8
Who to vote for this year With the economic downfall for the last three-plus years and the lack of agreeing on important issues important to the American public by the Democrats and Republicans and the president, and Sen. Burr, according to the media, being only one of two votes to vote against a bill to control inside trading in the House an...
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Letters, Feb. 6
A reminder on history When I see letters such as the one by Mike Mills on Feb. 4 (“Republicans aren’t the problem”), I wonder if people have forgotten who damaged our country and how. If this paper will print my letters I will conduct a review of American history starting in 1998 when Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Graham, and the Republican Congress o...
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Letters, Feb. 4
Republicans aren't the problem John Mayo’s letter (“Listening to Republicans,” Feb. 2) attempted to promote the Obama campaign strategy for 2012 which is, “Vote for me because the other guy’s even a bigger loser.” He failed. Mayo claims Republicans are “out of touch.” During the slowest economic recovery in our history, Obama played 90 round...
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Letters, Feb. 3
Libraries aim to keep friends, but cut back on thefts As The Herald-Sun noted in its article Thursday (“Duke libraries cut public hours”), the Duke University Libraries welcome users from the community. Indeed, Duke differs from most private universities in providing its neighbors with open access our library facilities and extensive collecti...
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Letters, Feb. 2, 2012
Listening to Republicans The other day while waiting for my car to be serviced, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between two men regarding the Republican primary. One made the rather blunt statement, “I’m not impressed with Romney or Gingrich,” and the other agreed. This seems to be the consensus among even Republicans this year. ...
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Letters, Jan. 31, 2012
Why do black students change majors? My namesake (and no relation) Elliott Cramer misses key facts in his uncritical endorsement (Jan. 29) of the study of racial differences in choices of majors among Duke students. First, the reported large-scale shift away from the natural sciences occurs among both whites and blacks. The shift is greater...
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Letters, Jan. 30
A one-sided view on fracking In an oped column by Michael Whatley on Jan. 19 ("To create jobs and revenue, look to shale gas") about shale gas extraction, or fracking, the only mention made about the environmental concerns of fracking was to dismiss them as attempts to scare the public about groundwater contamination, stating that there has n...
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Letters, Jan. 29
What’s the issue with the study? There is no question but that there are lower standards for admission of African-American students as opposed to white students at Duke (and also at UNC and many other universities); thus they are less prepared for more demanding majors such as mathematics and the physical sciences. It is true that the authors...
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Letters, Jan. 27
Barriers have no place in public education I write to support Fred Foster’s letter voicing concern about tax-supported charter schools that create barriers to participation for substantial numbers of Durham children. The kinds of barriers set up by Research Triangle High School, including lack of transportation and food services, have no pla...
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Letters, Jan. 26, 2012
Fight to preserve funding for global health All good things must NOT come to an end: Like the saying goes, many good things come to an end but not when it comes to success in our global fight against killer diseases. This year marks the 10th anniversary of a highly successful, multi-country, global health effort — The Global Fund to Fight AID...
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Letters, Jan. 25, 2012
A different idea for pre-K The pre-kindergarten program in Durham Public Schools highlighted in the Sunday paper is based on a fallacious model of group education only. It seeks to educate rather than provide life and maturational skills not taught at home. I propose a new agency to properly train, indoctrinate and place a new group of profe...
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Letters, Jan. 24, 2012
DPS should support, but not build, pre-K programs As a parent of twin 3-year-old children, I was astonished when I read the article about DPS adding Pre-K services to its already overburdened system. There are numerous high-quality centers already in Durham County with systems in place to provide Pre-K education. It is an injustice to Durha...
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Letters, Jan. 23, 2012
What should we cut? Let’s start with CEO pay Ed Feulner, president of The Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank), states that the United States is falling in “economic freedom” when ranked with other countries of the world (“Economic freedom? Top 10, but falling,” Jan. 21). He observes that we have to “get serious about cutting gover...
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Letters, Jan. 22, 2012
A new fan of Triangle Transit buses To turn our Saturday outing to Durham into an adventure, my husband and I took the Triangle Transit bus from the Carolina Coffee Shop on East Franklin Street to the Durham station. Bus 400 was on time. Our fellow boarders included two women fresh from San Diego. This was the fourth bus stop at which they’d...
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Letters, Jan. 21, 2012
In Lee County, it’s 7 percent Could you please tell us where you shop and are charged “only” 5.75 percent. Lots of people may feel tax envy. As I check my most recent sales slips, with the exception of food and prescription items, I see a glaring 6.75 percent. Jean-Pierre Le Goff Durham Editor’s note: North Carolina’s base sales tax rate, ...
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Letters, Jan. 20, 2012
North Carolina should tax Internet sales It seems to me that if internet sales on new items were taxed, regardless of whether one was purchasing in or out of their state or country, taxes on gasoline could be reduced to reasonable levels and that the many “buy local” campaigns may get a boost. Marie Miller Morrisville Should whimsy govern...
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Letters, Jan. 18, 2012
District attorney should defend justice I’ve been surprised by the lack of letters to the editor about the ongoing soap opera with District Attorney Tracy Cline and Judge Orlando Hudson. Why is it that Durham County is having so much trouble electing a first-class DA? First it was Mike Nifong; now it’s Cline. Freda Black was an even worse c...
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Letters, Jan. 17, 2012
Unless they were playing in California? While it makes for an enticing head line, Duke did not escape Death Valley. Death Valley refers exclusively to Clemson’s Football Stadium. The Clemson Basketball team plays at Littlejohn Coliseum. A more accurate headline might have been “Duke escapes the prowling tigers.” Eleanor Boyd Durham If yo...
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