http://www.salemnews.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235958.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235958.html Businesses pay big money to get the amount of notice a single word and mdash; meep and mdash; has generated for Danvers High School. The story about Principal Thomas Murray's meep ban has gained the school worldwide exposure via the Internet. It's been of great interest to free-speech advocates and Muppets fans alike and has generated a rash of Google searches and cybercomment. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_327000027.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_327000027.html To the editor: During the early 1980s Congress under President Clinton passed an immigration bill that for 30 years was never enforced by Republicans or Democrats. During that same period, NAFTA was endorsed and jobs were sent overseas; Social Security was taxed for the first time; and U.S. soldiers were sent overseas to protect the peace. The country can never be repaid for the lives lost, but it should not bear the expense for those in the non-war zone. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235834.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235834.html Among the partisan battles that can roil academic institutions (like the one a few years ago that toppled Larry Summers, now Obama's top economic adviser, from the presidency of Harvard University), this one ranks among the tamest. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235920.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235920.html To the editor: On Saturday, Oct. 31, the Chebacco Woods Land Management Committee and the Chebacco Lake and Watershed Committee held a cleanup along Chebacco Road by the lake, state boat ramp, Round Pond and Gravelly Pond. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235949.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235949.html A recent lecture given by this columnist on libraries and literature in Essex County led to the unearthing of many interesting facts and stories about the development of public libraries in our local communities. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235843.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_326235843.html The decades-long effort to provide area students with a career training program that's the equal of any in the state took a giant step forward last week as the Peabody City Council formally approved the city's participation in the Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School District. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324211902.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324211902.html Debates are one of the best ways for voters to get to know candidates for office, especially when they are not well known to the electorate. So we commend Attorney General Martha Coakley for finally agreeing this week to participate in back-to-back televised debates next month. The first will be held Tuesday, Dec. 1, sponsored by WCVB-TV (Channel 5); and the second on Tuesday, Dec. 2, sponsored by the Globe, NECN, WBUR-FM, and WGBH-TV. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324211930.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324211930.html Barack Obama is back from Asia and his bow to the Japanese, his handshake with the tyrant from Myanmar and his difficult sessions with the Chinese. There sure has been a lot of talk about the president and his submissiveness in Asia. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212145.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212145.html To the editor: On behalf of the Greater Endicott Street Neighborhood Association (GESNA), we thank The Salem News for providing a voice to the neighborhood over the past months. For a neighborhood that had been mute for a while, it is nice to see that it has a voice. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212100.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212100.html To the editor: I would like to thank the voters of Peabody for their support in my candidacy for councilor-at-large. I met a lot of wonderful people along the way and learned a lot about my hometown. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212129.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212129.html To the editor: I would like express my appreciation to Congressman John Tierney for voting to pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Thank you, congressman, for not bowing to pressure from the insurance giants and their lobbyists and for standing up for me and my family. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212037.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212037.html To the editor: The North Shore Workforce Investment Board and Career Centers, along with the Essex County Community Foundation, which accepts private contributions on our behalf, would like to thank all companies, cities and towns, philanthropies, and agencies who worked with us this summer on our F1rstJobs Summer Youth Employment program. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212053.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212053.html To the editor: Operation Troop Support would like to thank the Collins Middle School students who took the time to put together more than 7,000 holiday cards for our soldiers to send home to their loved ones this year. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212045.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212045.html To the editor: I'd like to thank the voters of Beverly's Ward 3 for their support on Election Day. I am humbled and thankful for the trust they have shown in me by electing me again, this time as their city councilor. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212007.html http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_324212007.html To the editor: For two weekends in October, the Marblehead Arts Association hosted its first Hooper's Haunted House. This wonderful event in the historic King Hooper Mansion required the tireless work of so many. We would like to thank the following for their contribution and support throughout the process.