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Letter to the editor (12/21/18)In your Dec. 17 issue, Mr. Ed Richards said I wasn’t from here, so what? I’ve been a resident and registered voter in Saline County for 15 years and felt Saline County should be informed of the redistricting “weakening” efforts to come. As a retired journalist, I failed to name sources: The Kansas City Star, New York Times and St. Louis Post Dispatch...
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Letter to the Editor: Dec. 7, 2018 (12/7/18)Letter to the editor, This past mid-term election, 63 percent bipartisan Missouri voters voted for Amendment 1 known as Clean Missouri. This is an ethics amendment and no honest politician should have a reason to attack it. Our District 51 Rep. Dean Dorman at the three Marshall pre-election debates only opinion of Clean Missouri was it was too complicated...
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Letter to the Editor: Nov. 30, 2018 (12/6/18)Dear Editor, I read an article on the KMMO Radio website about concerns from some school board members on the audit petition surrounding Marshall. The petition is for a PERFORMANCE audit. Performance audits, the public version of operational audits, are conducted to determine if an entity’s operations, programs, or projects are functioning effectively and efficiently to achieve goals established. ...
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Letter to the editor (8/17/18)School board members, By the time I read the Aug. 8 issue of The Marshall Democrat-News about the public meeting that night, it was too late for me to attend. Therefore, I would like to express my thoughts and concerns about your proposed agreement with the city of Marshall through this media...
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Letter to the editor (7/18/18)Dear editor, I wanted to take this opportunity to say I appreciate the Marshall Cultural Council, which includes Sandy Hisle, Heather Arth and all the volunteers for bringing The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and the opening bands, Savana Chestnut and the Danny Thompson Band, to Marshall on Saturday, July 7! This was a very entertaining evening, a good variety of food and drink, and the weather was perfect! Very enjoyable!...
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Letter to the editor (6/15/18)Dear Editor, Our community will soon welcome CVS Pharmacy, but longtime residents feel nostalgic about the loss of Red Cross Pharmacy retail stores. For decades, Red Cross was a fixture on the Marshall square. The fountain and cafe was a meeting place for friends. ...
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Letter to the editor (5/29/18)Dear Editor, On Tuesday, May 15, we interred a family member at Ridge Park Cemetery and, to say the least, were horrified of the appearance of the grounds. The dandelions and other weeds have taken over and should have been dealt with by now. In my 21 years as a resident of Marshall, I have never seen it look so unkept and wonder what the out-of-town friends thought...
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Letter to the Editor (May 11, 2018) (5/16/18)Fellow citizens, Re: Vietnam. Vietnamese have lived on that land mass for thousands of years. Most of the U.S. soldiers deployed to there believed, as they were told, they would be fighting bad guys who came from a whole different other country to the north to make trouble in the south. I do not condemn them. This turned out to not be true. ...
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Letter to the editor (3/30/18)According to this newspaper of last Friday’s date, (City hears sales tax issue during meeting), Joey McLiney, of McLiney and Company and self-confessed “financial advisor...for the county.” addressed the city council. In the interest of bringing water to the Marshall Junction area, McLIney said, in part, “We’ll do a 20 year sales tax. ...
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Letter to the editor (3/30/18)I am writing this letter to state my opposition to the sales tax proposal on the April ballot. The city has buildings falling down, abandoned houses in disrepair, the park needs money, the library needs money, utilities that need to be upgraded, and our schools need an enormous amount of money. ...
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Letter to the editor (3/30/18)Dear Marshall voters, I wanted to voice my opinion on the upcoming city council election. I live in Ward II and my councilman is Kirk Arends. I’m writing in support of Mr. Arends for his reelection. One area that is very important to me, and I believe he has helped improve upon, is the appearance of our town. ...
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Letter to the editor (3/21/18)Between 1990 and 2003, a 13-year war was waged against the Iraqis. Aerial bombing was done to destroy water treatment plants, which got the results the Pentagon anticipated. Many could not get clean water and could only get contaminated water that carried typhoid and diphtheria. Those most vulnerable, children under age 5, died from those in the tens of thousands. ...
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Letter to the editor (3/16/18)Dear Citizens of Marshall, I am writing you today about the upcoming city council election on April 3. Just two short years ago, the citizens of Marshall went to the polls to voice that they wanted a change in our city government. The voter message was loud and clear to all...
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Letter to the editor (2/21/18)Dear gentle readers and neighbors, For those of you who are not persuaded that the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation were unjustifiable colonial acts of aggression, I recommend the following for you to read: The Charter of the United Nations, 2016; The Geneva Conventions Under Assault, 2010; The U.S. ...
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All letters to the editor must be signed by the author, provide contact information and the person's occupation. To encourage diversity, we will publish only one letter from a writer per month on a particular subject. However, we will allow one rebuttal if the author is challenged by another writer. Letters must be 350 words or less.
When submitting letters to the editor, we ask for your occupation as a way to give readers more perspective about your connection with the issue.
For example, if John Smith writes a letter about the benefits of running a gas pipeline through Saline county, you may view his opinion differently if he was a farmer or if he worked for the petroleum company.
Writers who don't have a current occupation sometimes use terms like "former football coach" or "retired railroad engineer" or "student." If you object or are sensitive to sharing your occupation, then you can use the term "undisclosed."
When submitting letters to the editor, we ask for your occupation as a way to give readers more perspective about your connection with the issue.
For example, if John Smith writes a letter about the benefits of running a gas pipeline through Saline county, you may view his opinion differently if he was a farmer or if he worked for the petroleum company.
Writers who don't have a current occupation sometimes use terms like "former football coach" or "retired railroad engineer" or "student." If you object or are sensitive to sharing your occupation, then you can use the term "undisclosed."
The Marshall Democrat-News welcomes your letters to the editor.
All letters must be signed and list a daytime contact number for the writer. For any questions, please call 660-886-2233 and ask for Sarah Reed, editor.
Once we receive your letter, we reserve the right to edit it for clarity and content.
Letters may be dropped off at the office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday or mailed to: Editor, The Marshall Democrat-News, P.O. Box 100, Marshall, MO 65340.
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