Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich AP file photo
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To the editor:
Leave it to Salem State to come up with a speaker who left Congress in 1999 under a dark cloud.
Newt Gingrich almost single-handedly delivered the necessary votes to pass the job and sovereignty-robbing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) debacle through Congress.
Instead of stumping for president, he should've been begging for forgiveness for helping to place another nail in this country's coffin.
Steve DempSey
Danvers
Supporters of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren are under no obligation to help Marisa DeFranco obtain the minimum 15 percent delegate vote she requires to win a place on the primary ballot in September.
The writer T.S. Eliot once observed that "half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important."
The rule that allows a single member of the Salem City Council to prevent anyone, even the mayor, from addressing that body makes that councilor feel important. It serves no other purpose.
There comes a time in every life when a person must take the plunge, break from the old routine, embrace the future. So it was with me and Facebook.
I saw many of my friends and relatives sign up for Facebook in recent years. But being somewhat of an anti-social person working not in new media but grumpy old media, I resisted doing so myself as an individual act of defiance.
Let's stipulate that smoking is very, very bad for you.
If you don't quit, it will probably kill you, one way or another. It will impoverish you little by little as you plop down $7 or $8 for a pack of cigarettes.
To the editor:
"Magnificent" and "moving" are the two words best suited to describe the day and the spirit coursing through the community during this past Sunday's Memorial Day parade in Beverly Farms.
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