Letters
What? Prices haven’t gone Up?
I am a Social Security beneficiary, and in the past, my has increased automatically to keep pace wit inflation. This year, however, the Consumer Price Index published by the Department of Labor m...
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Global warming?
When I read Ken Lynn’s piece on it I thought it may have been meant as humor untiI I read it a second time. The greatest scam of the 20th and 21st centuries is sinking fast. Just see the 31...
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Appreciating open prayer
To the editor: I attended the huskies varsity football game at West Wilkes Friday night, and I heard something I thought I would never hear again, “prayer before a game.” The prayer f...
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Thank You Ashe County Commissioners
About two weeks ago I received my annual Ashe County Property tax invoice due to be paid in December 2009. WOW …what a nice surprise. The amount of tax due was exactly the same amount [to ...
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Google HR 3200
Much has been said recently about the cost and availability of healthcare. In reading the bill (HR 3200) it should be noted that it is written in legalese, it seems with the intention of confusin...
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Homosexulaity: a genetic disposition to be overcome not given special status
To the editor: I am writing in defense of Rev. Sonny Thomas’ recent letter opposing the proposed hate crime bill. The follow-up letter by Mr. Ken Lynn described Pastor Thomas as “bigoted” and la...
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We know where to send historical relics
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D. G. Martin is an old friend of The Museum of Ashe County History. His column, “Where will all the uniforms go?” in last Friday’s “Jefferson Post,” gives us a new opportunity to share our messa...
Mom trying the set the record straight and denounce hearsay evidence
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I, Lisa Roten, as a local mother of Glendale Springs am writing this article to make all Ashe County parents who have minor children currently working or will be having children looking for a job...
Comments on health care plan insensitive
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Dear Representative Foxx: I believe that you owe an apology to the voters in the Fifth District of North Carolina. In a recent appearance on the House floor, you said: The Republican health care...
Not a matter of will
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The Rev. Sonny D. Thomas’ recent diatribe railing against the pending federal hate crimes legislation strongly reinforces just why such legislation is required to protect gay and lesbian American...
Straight talk needs no confrontation
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The mob was out in force in Hickory NC, or maybe not. On Aug. 12, with camera in hand, I descended the mountain to the auditorium of Lenior-Rhyne College to join 1,200 other "mobsters" at a town ...
Healthcare letter inaccurate
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If Diane Tilson, the chairwoman of the Watauga Democrat Party is trying to burnish her credentials as a partisan hack, she’s off to a good start. Tilson recently took to the pages of this paper wi...
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