Letters to the Editor
Linda Medure: ‘A recipe for disaster’
Build a nuclear power plant (Shearon Harris) two miles from a fault line (Jonesboro). Run it by a company (Duke Energy Progress) that takes a full year to analyze data indicating there is a crack in the nuclear vessel. Store the largest repository in the country of nuclear control rods in the lake...
Letters to the Editor
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Jon Gibson: Moeser doesn’t get it
Regarding the May 21 article (“Ex-chancellor Moeser criticizes coverage of UNC scandal”: Someone needs to remind James Moeser that UNC’s ivory tower collapsed under its own weight nearly three years ago, media or no media.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Chris Lyerly: School can’t talk about pranks
I can’t really believe that Barry Saunders did any work before writing his May 21 column “On school pranks and punishment” on Enloe High School regarding arrests of students.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Michael Jacobs: Defending Tesla
Regarding the May 10 article “N.C. dealers move to block online Tesla sales in state”: During a lecture last year by the editor of the Wall Street Journal at UNC, Alan Murray was asked what made him bullish on America’s future. His response: Tesla Motors. He said that company...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Stephen Norton: Gun fantasies
The current debate about guns in public places could use a little critical thinking. The idea that a “good guy” with a gun can shoot a “bad guy” in a restaurant, bar or school without hitting innocent people is a myth perpetuated by the gun lobby.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Leslie Rice: Pranksters deserve fate
I am usually in agreement with Barry Saunders’ commentaries. However, in reference to his May 21 column “On school pranks and punishment,” I have to disagree.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Carolyn Christman: Grand ol’ payback
Since the Republican legislators have taken the Charlotte airport away from Charlotte, taken the Asheville water system away from Asheville and now are taking school buildings away from the Wake County Board of Education, they should be given a new nickname. GOP now stands for “Getting Our...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Winston T. Hooker Sr.: Board can focus on education
I was pleased to read May 16 that the N.C. Senate had passed the bill allowing county commissioners of nine N.C. counties, including Wake, to take over the responsibilities for constructing and maintaining their local public school facilities, thus allowing the school boards to focus on education...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Charles Houseworth: A dream world
With all that is going on in the world, I was quite surprised to find your May 18 front-page headline “Powerball excitement builds.” I simply had not realized how important this is in the overall scheme of things, particularly in that “it allows people to dream” as your...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mary Ann McFarland: New level would save lives
Regarding the May 21 Road Worrier column “Is .05 level too low?” by Bruce Siceloff: Imagine having the powers to save a life and to save a family from heartbreaking loss.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
John McKinney: Democratic leaders doom Detroit
Interesting to see the woes that Detroit is suffering in The N&O (“Detroit is broke; bankruptcy looms,” May 14 news article). You did forget a few things about this poor city’s problems.
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