Diversity calls for understanding Editor:
A candidate in Sullivan District #9 fought the placement of a mental health program several blocks away from her now defunct business, claiming that disabled people on Broadway were "not conducive to tourism" (THR, 11-30-1994). Other unflattering remarks around the same time, concerning recipients of counseling services, were equally unfair. Ms. Croissant now seeks a place on the body that oversees community mental health services. Have her attitudes become more compassionate? A person displaying the intolerance that this candidate has shown may not be fit to hold public office in a community as diverse as ours.
Sincerely,
CARMEN RUE
Monticello
The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, NY
The River Reporter, Narrowsburg, NY
The Sullivan County Democrat, Callicoon, NY
Written 08-27-2001
A yellow ribbon Editor:
We support our neighbor, Jack Tobin, an American Fulbright Scholar who was studying in Russia when Federal officials there framed him on marijuana possession charges and sentenced him to three years in prison after he refused to turn against his country and spy for Russia. Doubts exist that Mr. Tobin received due process guaranteed to him under the rule of law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We should not buy the Russians' trumped up story that Mr. Tobin committed any crime, nor forget their failed attempt to get him to sell out his country. We ask the President, Congress, and Secretary of State of the United States of America, to peacefully do all that they can to secure the immediate release of Mr. Tobin and other Americans wrongfully held captive on foreign soil. Thanks to the Record for covering Monticello's yellow ribbon in support of freeing this innocent victim of international politics.
Sincerely,
TOM and CARMEN RUE
Monticello
The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, NY
Written 05-21-2001
The Litigation President
Faith based medical treatment for addicts and others may make for good sound bytes, but will churches claim exemption from government credentialing for providers' requirements, as parochial schools have done with teachers for decades? In the end, patients will suffer and Bush's agenda will be left to the courts to decide. How many addicts and alcoholics must die at the hands of George Bush? What else should we expect from a president who was appointed by the courts and not by a vote of the people?
tomrue created this Discussion on Mon, Feb 5, 2001 7:59 AM.
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