We have some pretty crazy drivers in North Albany! I am a student in Mrs. Crow's fifth-grade math class, and we were doing a project on averaging. We borrowed a radar gun from the Corvallis Police Department to find out the average speed of drivers in our school zone. About 72 percent of …
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Tom McClintock's Nov 17 letter, "Most people without health insurance aren't choosing not to buy it," misunderstood at least part of what I wrote about health insurance.
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In January 2009, I received a mass mailing from the Republican National Committee, which counted me among their members. The mailing proudly proclaimed it was the party of the people and was driven by grass roots input, and wanted to know my thoughts and observations. Oh, and a donation w…
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Regarding the Nov. 13 article, "City orders Bald Hill Farms to close":
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The Wall Street Journal reported on Nov. 12 (" ... And A Buried Tort Bomb") on a provision in the medical bill recently passed by the House of Representatives that would block states from individually enacting limits on medical malpractice suits.
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The recent letter from Tom McClintock seems to support mandatory health insurance, but I think he overlooks how unworkable that proposal would likely be.
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The debate over forcing 47 million uninsured Americans to buy health care coverage inspires me to make a bold suggestion to our president about another needed reform - mandatory gun ownership.
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A great way to save money for both the student and the university/college is to graduate students in three years instead of four. Some students can do this, although most require longer than three years to graduate. Thinking back on my own college years, I wonder if all my "required" clas…
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Phil Barnhart recently talked about reigning in the Business Energy Tax Credit, and while I certainly understand his argument, I have to disagree. This tax program allows businesses in Corvallis and throughout Oregon to make a greener world.
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Has the city of Corvallis completely lost its mind?
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Although Friday the 13th is hardly a hopeful day for a good idea, Paul Krugman in that day's NY Times correctly extols one of Europe's best programs for confronting potential job losses in recession. Namely, our federal and state governments should investigate and possibly implement Germa…
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This is a response to the Nov. 10 article, "Experts: Placebo power behind many natural cures."
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A letter printed in the Gazette-Times on Tuesday, Nov. 10 contained multiple statements that could be interpreted as slander against Islam, as did a letter printed on Thursday, Nov. 12 (Letters, Nov. 10, Mark Rose, "Diplomatic appeasement will only weaken America" and Nov. 12, Harry J. Ma…
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G. Brent Dalrymple (Nov. 9, Letter as wrong about interest on Social Security Trust Fund) completely missed the point in my letter about Social Security.
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I appreciate trying to provide sleeping bags to those who have no warm place to sleep. But then I think to ahead to the months when volunteers are clearing ivy in city parks and we have to remove a disgusting soggy torn sleeping bag that has been left there.
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City Council should grant Bald Hill Farm the right to its agricultural plans and complete the Reservoir Avenue project as planned.
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In his Nov. 11 letter, John Brenan criticized the recently-passed House health care bill for several reasons.
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Two years ago, there was printed in the Gazette-Times a letter that I wrote, stating that, among other things, there was “a sort of Babylonian decline ... beginning to metastasize in our city.” This was in reference to the shameful theft of a tandem baby stroller, a vehicle booster se…
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