To the editor:
What is the big deal and waste of time by the Salem City Council in selecting a councilor? Was not Pinto rejected by the public in the last election, or does this not count?
Seamus O’Connor
Salem
Opinion
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Shribman: Crossing sacred lines
Associated Press Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chair of the Tea Party Caucus, center, speaks during a news conference with tea party leaders about the IRS targeting tea party groups on Capitol Hill Thursday.
You don't have to be a member of the tea party to be outraged over the Internal Revenue Service's special and unwarranted scrutiny of conservative groups. I'm not, and I am. For four decades liberals have nursed hurts over the Nixon administration's
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Column: What charity can learn from journalism
Sociologists are damned with the burden of knowing all the troubles of the world. In his book "Culture Making," Andy Crouch describes journalists as the poor cousins of sociologists. Both study the mechanisms of culture, and both are damned. As a soc
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Letter: Thank you, Danvers
To the editor: I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the voters who came out to vote in last Tuesday's election. While the results did not return me to the job, I appreciate the opportunity to have served this great town for the past nine years.
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Our view: Seizure of AP phone records an insult to independent press
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot
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Our view: Outdoor dining trial a good idea for Beverly
Here's hoping the Beverly City Council approves a proposal to allow a handful of restaurants to offer full-service sidewalk dining on a trial basis. If successful, it would be another boost for a blossoming downtown. Under current city rules, restaur
- Benton: Uncomfortable weeks for Obama
- Column: Dropping back into high school
- Our view: Rein in the IRS, not dissent
- Letter: Thanks to all who supported Arc event
- Column: Mother's Day should last all month
- Tierney: Student loan debt a generational crisis
- Our view: Repeat drunk drivers — taking the threat seriously
- Anderson: 'Overwhelmed' by the week's news
- Letter: Spring dance a great success
- Letter: Swamp Walk grand opening this weekend
- Letter: Donors made Danvers sign possible
- Column: Taxing us into utopia
- Letter: Jazz and Soul Festival supports music therapy
- Our view: Beverly's water fee policy a sound one
- Column: On immigration, the GOP’s split widens
- Our view: A tribute to courage
- Our view: A class act
- Column: Transportation bill is a chance to get things right
- Letter: Fox should have paid for 'Idol' parade
- Letter: Thanks from St. Richard Parish
- Letter: Angie, Ali gave us something to celebrate
- Shribman: A GOP held hostage by Reagan
- Column: Lessons from Grandma: a Mother’s Day tribute
- Letter: Christian unity and a ‘leap of faith’
- Letter: Remembering professor Minor McClain
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