Letter to the Editor - The Temple News

Letter to the Editor: Donald Hopkins

09 November 2009 Editorial Board

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

Letter to the Editor: Al DuVernay

09 November 2009 Editorial Board

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

Letter to the Editor: Wendy King

09 November 2009 Editorial Board

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

Letter to the Editor: Audra T. Winn

09 November 2009 Editorial Board

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

Letter to the Editor: Terry Halbert

09 November 2009 Editorial Board

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

Letter to the Editor: Barry Scatton

02 November 2009 Editorial Board

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

Letter to the Editor: Dan Dunphy

02 November 2009 Editorial Board

Dear editor, Nov. 3 will mark not just another municipal election for the city of Philadelphia or the Democratic Party, but will determine the direction in which Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will move.

Letter to the Editor: Ayesha Butt

26 October 2009 Editorial Board

Dear editor, In response to Geert Wilders visiting Temple, I am appalled that such an institution would invite such a bigot. His speech is not free speech but religious racism disguised as free speech. He

Letter to the Editor: Qaiser Abdullah

26 October 2009 Editorial Board

Dear editor, I attended the presentation by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders on Temple’s Main Campus on Tuesday, October 20. He touched on the concept of free speech, however, it came over as a mere ruse

Letter to the Editor: Nathan Shrader

26 October 2009 Editorial Board

Dear editor, It was disappointing to see some students tear a page from the Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh playbook both prior to and throughout the Oct. 20 visit by [former] Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. Rather than