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Letter Writer Gives Thanks, Suggests Story Idea |
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NEW- Letters to Editor
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Written by The Effort Staff
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May 13, 2008 at 05:45 PM |
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(Editor's Note: This came in attached to a column and I didn't know what else to do with it so I made it a letter. I'm a little leery of the "crude remarks" mention, but I was approached at the courthouse today by someone who asked, "I should probably know this, but if you smoke and use oxygen at the same time, is that OK?" So, there's clearly interest in the "What the Hell???" reaction to the story. Be kind.)
To the Editor:
Two things: Thanks for the laugh in the "Something Someone Said" box. It's accurate, too. And please tell me you're not going to let the story go by about the woman who died in a fire she started by smoking and using oxygen at the same time. I know it's sad and awful and a loss and all that, but isn't it begging for crude remarks? Fake Nayme Hutchinson |
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Loose Dogs a No-No; Cows and Horses Are OK, Though |
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Opinion & Editorial
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Written by By Dwight Jurgens
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May 13, 2008 at 07:11 AM |
HUTCHINSON -- I don't want to harp on the issue of renegade dogs, and won't, but I'm here to ask you a question this morning. We know what happens if your dog gets loose in the city and runs uninvited around somebody else's Mulberry bush -- animal control officers with tranquilizer guns are called, cops are brought in as back up with handguns, rifles, batons and shovels, and the dog-owner is summoned into court where he/she is fined and ordered to pay court costs. In extreme cases --- when the free-spirited, uppity little mutt has the audacity to bark at people it doesn't know approaching it with a pole and noose -- the dog is pronounced "vicious" and is likely to get shot in the head. OK .. We know that's how it works. You need to keep your dog confined to your property and expect, when the dog accidentally gets loose, the worst. So what happens, I'm wondering, when one of the few horses or cows in city limits gets out ... finds a hole in the fence or jumps over it?. Do the same rules apply? |
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Obama's Pastor Has Right to His Beliefs |
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Opinion & Editorial
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Written by By Ken Lucas
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May 06, 2008 at 06:21 AM |
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HUTCHINSON -- I disagree with Rev. Jeremiah Wright on many things, but as an American I believe that he has the right to believe whatever he wants to believe and express those beliefs.
My father believed the rights of freedom of belief and freedom of expression were important enough to risk his life in Europe in World War II. I believe those rights were important enough to risk my life in Vietnam. I disagree with Rev. Wright that the U.S. government is responsible for the HIV virus, but as an historian I know that some of our ancestors gave small pox infected blankets to the Indians. |
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Tired of Greensburg Stories ... Two Dead Dogs ... McCarville Speaks |
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Opinion & Editorial
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Written by By Dwight Jurgens
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May 03, 2008 at 07:47 AM |
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HUTCHINSON -- I'm not sure I should be saying this aloud because it will probably be considered heresy around here ... but I haven't read, listened to or watched a story on the Greensburg recovery in months. Which means half of the daily edition of The Hutchinson News is useless to me.
I tired of the stories long ago. Sure, I'm pulling for those folks -- who isn't? And if they need something specific from me, I'm in the book. All they have to do is ask, and I'll do the best I can. I also understand the media in general and newspapering, specifically -- or did, anyway, back in the day: you gotta have stories; you gotta plug the holes. And Greensburg is an easy story, from an editor's point of view -- it was destroyed by a tornado that sounded like a freight train, for chrissakes, and a peach tree was replanted yesterday ... "Get me a photog and reporter out there, Now! I want a 12-inch story and horizontal and vertical pics of The Sprig! Go, go go!" Sigh. |
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