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Recent letters to the editor:

Alzheimer's care

Regarding your Sept. 28 article "Losing Walt" and subsequent comments: First, my thanks to Walter and Peggy Kline for their courage and willingness to share the pain and joy of their journey. Their experience will help open hearts and minds to the formidable challenges Alzheimer's disease poses to individuals and families.

Updated: Oct. 13, 2008 6:00 AM | Full story

Just the truth

It seems to me that you asked the wrong questions in the Oct. 5 article "DVD rattles Islam's apostles." It questioned who funded the "Obsession" DVD distribution.

Updated: Oct. 13, 2008 1:04 AM | Full story

A tribute deserved

Nothing short of my personal illness kept me from the dedication of our county's public center to Sheriff John Baker.

Updated: Oct. 13, 2008 1:04 AM | Full story

Muddy situation

Letter:I've painstakingly researched candidates in order to vote absentee, spending an entire afternoon wading through Web sites. That is, until I got to the last category and found there is nothing out there about people running for Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor.

Updated: Oct. 13, 2008 6:01 AM | Full story

Smear campaign

Letter:Desperate times call for desperate measures. Apparently in Republican circles, they call for personal smears, making me wonder whether the party of "family values" believes only in the value of the end justifying the means.

Updated: Oct. 12, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Flawed candidate

Letter:Barack Obama is a fascinating presidential candidate, one whose fine qualities place him among a new generation of African-American politicians, those apparently leaving racism behind. His candidacy, however, has serious problems.

Updated: Oct. 12, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Sunday Forum

Letter:Letters to editor of the Editorial Page.

Updated: Oct. 12, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

October nose dives

Letter:What is it about October? Black Monday was Oct. 14, 1987. Black Thursday was Oct. 24, 1929. This will go down as Red October, with the precipitous stock market drop this month.

Updated: Oct. 12, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Easy issue?

Letter:Your Oct. 8 article on the second presidential debate did not mention Sen. John McCain's response to the question of how he would save Social Security.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Full story

Swayed by fear

Letter:To my surprise, I found myself reading Charles Krauthammer's entire Oct. 3 column and agreeing with parts of it. In my opinion, Barack Obama does display both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Tax cuts work

Letter:The writer of the Oct. 9 People's Forum letter captioned "Big break" wonders why the wealthy and corporations deserve a tax break. Maybe it's because they pay the vast majority of the taxes.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Can you handle it?

Letter:Did I read a letter to the editor where someone did a "fact check" on the comic strip "Mallard Fillmore"?

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Full story

Crude profits

Letter:Crude oil prices have plummeted to $83 per barrel. When the per-barrel prices rose, so did the price at the pump, yet the reverse is not happening.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Making McCain's case

Letter:Bruce Lightner's appeal (Point of View article, Oct. 10) to North Carolina's undecided voters on behalf of Barack Obama was clearly trumped by the Charles Krauthammer column on that same day that examined the radical associations of the senator.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:05 AM | Full story

Debate question

Letter:Is it possible for John McCain and/or Sarah Palin to speak or debate without repeating the contentions about their opponents that have been repeatedly demonstrated to be false?

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:05 AM | Full story

Exaggerated claims

Letter:If the past is any guide, it seems that the current drive to purge voter rolls, as reported in the Oct. 9 article "Voter purges appear illegal," is driven, in part, by alarmist claims of widespread voter fraud.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

The GOP slate

Letter:The partisan preferences of The N&O are well known and expected. Endorsing seven Democrats and two Republicans for Wake County seats in the state House is par for the historical course.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Full story

Calling people 'vile'

Letter:As mentioned in your Oct. 9 Election 2008 column, Elizabeth Dole's campaign sent out thousands of mailers claiming that Kay Hagan met with a group of atheists. The mailer refers to them as "the most vile, radical liberals in America."

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Missing the initiative

Letter:I quit watching the debate Tuesday night after about 30 minutes, since both candidates were merely blaming the other for our woes and telling us how they will solve them even though most of the woes have to be acted on in Congress.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Full story

Fraud's the problem

Letter:You've got some cheek, as my Irish wife would say. We may see voter fraud this election of a magnitude not seen since the late Mayor Daley's Chicago or New York's Tammany Hall, thanks to our friends at ACORN.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Full story

Unregulated greed

Letter:The Republican chickens have come home to roost!

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Candidates' views

Letter:Kudos for the informative and easy-to-digest "Election 2008" spread on Oct. 6.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Full story

Why is gas so high?

Letter:I am shocked that our gas prices are not coming down.

Updated: Oct. 11, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Unfair to Perdue

Letter:Your Oct. 8 article "Dole, Perdue content to avoid debates" was misleading and unfair to Bev Perdue. She has committed to five televised debates in this campaign, with the next one is schedule for next week in Charlotte.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 7:47 AM | Full story

Widely available

Letter:Regarding your Oct. 8 article "Dole, Perdue content to avoid debates": I think the reason Beverly Perdue declined the two debates with Pat McCrory and Mike Munger is because those two debates were broadcast on North Carolina public television, which is broadcast statewide.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 7:48 AM | Full story

Overreaching

Letter:When the Rev. Walter Leake at a GOP rally in Greenville prayed that God would silence the speech of Democrats who lie about McCain/Palin (news item, Oct. 9), he should have checked his facts first.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 7:47 AM | Full story

Blame democrats

Letter:As your newspaper continues to fawn over U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan, you fail to recognize that the failure of the Democratic Congress is the reason we have the gas shortages in our region and the international financial crisis.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 7:47 AM | Full story

On the money

Letter:The "Mallard Fillmore" comic on Oct. 7 stated that Sen. Chris Dodd received $134,000 from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, implying that he has been bought by them.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 7:47 AM | Full story

Don't blame Bush

Letter:I am tired of hearing about the past horrible eight years under the Bush administration.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

Excessive valuations

Letter:Wake County revalued property at the peak of the real estate bubble. There was much said about values increasing as much as 40 percent or 50 percent, particularly in areas around North Hills where teardowns became commonplace.

Updated: Oct. 10, 2008 7:47 AM | Full story
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