Letter to the Editor: Nicole Miller

Dear editor,
As many college students can attest, including myself, debt is difficult burden. My student loan bills will be in the neighborhood of $600 a month with no guarantee of a job. The people reading this letter probably have their own debts – credit cards, loans and mortgages. These sorts of financial obligations mean [...]

Letter to the Editor: Keith R. McCall

Oct. 21, 2009
The Honorable Keith R. McCall
PA House of Representatives
139 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2122
Dear Representative McCall:
As the leaders of the state-related universities, we write to implore you to finalize the Commonwealth’s budget and pass the appropriation bills for our state-related universities now or at least upon the House’s return to session [...]

Letter to the Editor: Barry Scatton

Dear editor,
While Temple College Republicans were almost moved to tears by the benevolence of the Temple Democratic Socialists, we will be respectfully declining their $5 offer. The members of TUCR feel Donald Hopkins, president of Temple Democratic Socialists, should use that $5 to invest in his continued education at Temple. It is quite obvious [...]

Letter to the Editor: Donald Hopkins

Dear editor,
These are tough economic times for all Americans, but few have been hit harder than the Republicans. Bush’s tax cuts for the rich and no-bid contracts for Halliburton are now a thing of the past. Our neighborhood mom-and-pop insurance conglomerates will no longer have the liberty to drop people who get sick. Oil [...]

Letter to the Editor: Al DuVernay

Dear editor,
“Wealthy neighborhoods remained intact due to their highly sophisticated levee systems…”
Yikes Mr. Epstein! Thanks for volunteering, but did you sleep through your visit to New Orleans? This statement goes beyond inaccuracy and dives headfirst into fantasy. I’m one of those who lived in a rich neighborhood. After the storm passed and the federal, not-so-sophisticated [...]

Letter to the Editor: Armand J. Richardson

Dear editor,
I read this article in The Temple News with total amazement. As a native of the Ninth Ward and resident of the city for 50 years who was here for the disaster created by the Corps of Engineers in 2005, I can tell you that there are many incorrect assumptions in this article:
The French [...]

Letter to the Editor: Wendy King

Dear editor,
Your writer, Natsai Todd, completely missed the point about our city’s levee protection when writing this story. This isn’t a matter of which part of the city was better protected by levees.
Parts of New Orleans flooded because the federally funded and federally built levee systems collapsed, even though these systems were supposed to be [...]

Letter to the Editor: Audra T. Winn

Dear editor,
As a proud Temple student and member of the North Philadelphia community, I did go to the voting booth Nov. 3 to practice my civic duty electing new officials that I think will enhance our city’s politics. However, as I was the only voter at my polling place for the first hour the [...]

Letter to the Editor: Terry Halbert

Dear editor,
I noticed in your recent edition an editorial, which made an excellent suggestion – that GenEd include a course addressing local politics. Although the letter focuses on introducing students to the court system of local government, I take it that the overall thrust of the piece was that Temple should offer a course that [...]

Letter to the Editor: Barry Scatton

Dear editor,
Former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once quipped that “all politics is local.” He was correct in his assessment, yet city elections continually go unnoticed. Only 10 percent of Philadelphia’s registered voters will be voting on Nov. 3.
Voters should be deeply concerned, specifically with regards to two important positions that are [...]

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