Letters to the Editor

John Philpot: DHHS irony

Reading the Oct. 9 news article “Key details withheld from N.C. response to Medicaid audit”: I am once again reminded of how often ideology trumps facts in the McCrory administration. How ironic that those charged with caring for the health and welfare of North Carolinians in fact do neither.

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    Mark Sullivan: Wos and Brownie

    Regarding your Oct. 9 news article “DHHS comes up short on answers”: The personnel and policy blunders of Secretary Aldona Wos and Gov. Pat McCrory mirror the legacy of George W. Bush and FEMA.

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    Brad Bradshaw: Dumb multitasking

    Alas, again recently I was almost hit by someone staring at her smart phone while driving a car. This time it was a woman in a white Volkswagen heading south on Six Forks Road. She had to swerve into the center turn lane to prevent crushing my motorcycle (and me).

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    Joe Elinoff: McCrory’s Medicaid bluff

    It appears that officials of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services might have altered audit findings in an attempt to show that the administrative cost of Medicaid is far worse than it really is (“Key details withheld from N.C. response to Medicaid audit,” Oct. 10 news story...

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    Curt Torell: Too-big pact

    MaryBe McMillan’s Oct. 10 Point of View “A trade bill disastrous to N.C.” exposes the myths of “job creation” in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement and the dangerous push to grant presidential “Fast Track” signing authority. McMillan’...

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    Charles M. Smith: NCCC wants Catholics back

    Ned Barnett’s Sept. 29 column nailed the widespread disappointment many of us on the N.C. Council of Churches’ governing board have been feeling since the Catholic bishops in Raleigh and Charlotte made the unilateral decision to withdraw their dioceses from membership effective Dec...

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    Frank Myatt: Low turnout for big issue

    I understand that only 15 percent of the electorate turned out for this school bond vote. That means only about 8 percent of the electorate decided that all property owners in the county need an $810 million debt added on to the billions that we are already on the hook for. This all resulting in...

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    Dan Holly: Stand up to bullies (GOP)

    We can spin the shutdown anyway we want (and, man, are the Republicans trying), but at the end of the day, it’s extortion: Meet our demands or we’ll hurt innocent people. How could anyone think this is a good tactic? If it works for Republicans, does anyone doubt Democrats will do...

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    Debbie Mallard: Teacher’s net loss

    I spent seven years as a full-time teacher in Wake County. In 2009 I had a child and decided to stay at home. My child will be entering kindergarten for the 2014-15 school year, and I was weighing the option of returning to the classroom as a full-time teacher.

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    Patrick Sweeney: DHHS selective editing

    Regarding the Oct. 10 news story “Key details withheld from N.C. response to Medicaid audit”: Does DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos think the general public is stupid? Information surfaces that she and the governor conspired to use a selectively edited audit of the state’s $13 billion...

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    Barton and Sharon Holtz: No compromising

    The writer of the Oct. 6 letter “Obama’s high horse” said President Obama should “get down from his high horse” and have a casual one-on-one with members on the other side of the aisle like Presidents Jefferson and Eisenhower did. The problem with that is that ...

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