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To the Editor: As a person with a federally recognized disability in the form of a mental illness, I continue to experience discrimination in my local community. Since November, 2013, this has been my unfortunate experience with a small, privately-owned business in downtown Rochester, New Hampshire. Despite the stigma and stereotypes of mental illness, at no point in time did I become violent or threatening towards the owner of the business in question. Paradoxically, it was the business owner who descended to the level of discourtesy, profanity, personal put-downs, and threatening me with violence. When I called my local police to report his threat, he …
To the Editor: John Donne’s poem could not be more prophetic than it is with the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg—“ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” Her death is a tragedy not only for the loss of a great person, but for the Republic she served so well. While we grieve, we still have work to do. With apologies to Abraham Lincoln, “It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which [she]…so nobly advanced.” We need to pay close attention to the next Supreme Court associate justice. Trump already has announced his plans …
Dear Editor, I am a Republican who will be voting for Joe Biden. To all who are planning to vote for Donald Trump, including people that I know and love, please read on. You and I probably get our news from different sources and, as a result, we may have a different understanding of various issues. But the following are facts that I don’t think you would dispute and I ask that you consider them. Why do you suppose that five of the President’s hand-picked advisers have been found guilty of crimes, some of whom are in prison as you read this? (Michael Cohen, Paul …
“He [Will Varner] was at once active and lazy; he did nothing at all (his son managed all the family business) and spent all his time at it, out of the house and gone before the son had come down to breakfast even, nobody knew where save that he and the old fat white horse which he rode might be seen anywhere within the surrounding ten miles at any time, and at least once every month during the spring and summer and early fall, the old white horse tethered to an adjacent fence post, he would be seen by someone sitting in a home-made chair …
Dear Editor: Scientific American magazine, for the first time in its 175 years, has endorsed a presidential candidate—Joe Biden. Trump is so anti-science that the highly-respected magazine feels compelled. It didn’t even endorse Abraham Lincoln, as Steven Colbert pointed out on “The Late Show.” Trump, in regular self-delusion, compares himself to Lincoln. Trump also thinks C.D.C. head Robert Redfield is “confused,” that Redfield publicly disagrees with Trump. Redfield states that a Covid-19 vaccine won’t be available until the 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2021. Trump wistfully wants it here by the Nov. 3rd election, as he projects himself the winner. He even has the soldiers …