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What others are saying

11/21/2009

Kansas Department of Corrections officials have embarrassed themselves and damaged their organization's credibility by filing an ethics complaint against local attorney Keen Umbehr.

They should drop the trivial action and move on to addressing the alarming problems that Umbehr helped expose in their system.

What others are saying

11/21/2009

Kansas Department of Corrections officials have embarrassed themselves and damaged their organization's credibility by filing an ethics complaint against local attorney Keen Umbehr.

They should drop the trivial action and move on to addressing the alarming problems that Umbehr helped expose in their system.

Columns:

I've subscribed to The New Yorker for years because I love the covers and the cartoons, and some of the articles aren't bad, either. There's some really fine fiction included, as well as pieces on culture and opinions of people who matter. I can read material there that I can't find anywhere else, and besides, it looks good on my coffee table.

So you can imagine the horror when on the inside back cover of this issue, in an ad for a Land Rover automobile, a large grammatical error leaps out of the page and smacks me right in the face. It's such an unforgivable error that I've decided not to buy a Land Rover, not now, not ever.

The party of fiscal babies

11/19/2009

Sure. And you're just the boys to do it.

There hasn't been a balanced budget since the last Democratic administration. During the George W. Bush years of mindless tax-cutting, the national debt doubled, and GOP claims to fiscal rectitude became a bizarre joke. The last fig leaf fell off this summer when Republicans demagogued efforts to save over $100 billion by ending subsidies for the private Medicare Advantage health plans.

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The Salina Journal welcomes letters to the editor; length is limited to 250 words, and must be signed and include an address and a daytime phone number for verification of authorship.

Letters may be mailed to the Journal at PO Box 740, Salina, Kansas, 67401; or, Sent via e-mail to letters@salina.com (send your letter in the message body, NOT as an attachment); Letters to the editor are not published online.

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To participate, call the Journal at 785-823-6464, extension 333. You do not have to leave your name.

Recent calls include...

"Isn't it amazing that we all bring our horses to town but only the people with money get to put their horses at the front of the parade. Let's think about this."

"The police department won't hire smokers. Why doesn't the hospital adopt that policy?"

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"Keep raising the mill levy and Salina will be known as the city on the move -- moving all the old folks right out of town because they won't be able to afford their taxes. It'd be the all American city with no old people."

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