Letter to the Editor: Choice, baby formula, health and guns
“Where is my right to safety and personal choice?”
Letters to the Editor
There are 85 articles by Letters to the Editor :
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June 2022
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May 2022
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Can the Memphis Airport please fix the elevators in the garage?
“On the rare occasion it has two working elevators, I feel so thankful.”
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March 2022
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Please add more arts & culture coverage
A subscriber says, “There are those of us who love our (Memphis Symphony Orchestra) musicians just as much as people love our great sports teams!”
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February 2022
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Sanford column ignorant and divisive
“Saying that white people are responsible for COVID lingering is untrue and once again an aim to racially divide,” letter writer Jane Maners says of Otis Sanford’s column.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Sanford needs to rely on science, not anecdotes
Letter to the editor: Otis Sanford’s words not only drive a wedge within the already too-segregated Memphis community, but also present a scientifically lacking perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Sanford too harsh on Blackburn
“In Otis Sanford’s opinion column, ‘Blackburn proves she can be queen of mean,’ he gets a little bit too carried away in criticizing Sen. Marsha Blackburn.”
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September 2021
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Neighborhoods Letters to the Editor: Bill would lower costs for supermarkets in food deserts
Passing this bill would help bring food, jobs and economic opportunities to Binghampton and to the 20 million people around the country who lack access to fresh food.
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August 2021
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Opinion Letters to the Editor: We have a shot at ending the COVID-19 crisis. Let’s get it done.
By getting the vaccine, you are protecting not only yourself but your family, co-workers and the entire community. You are also helping to ensure that our health care facilities retain the capacity to care for patients who are seriously ill with other disorders.
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July 2021
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Letters to the Editor Medical students respond to TN ceasing vaccination outreach
Opinion: ‘By stripping the Tennessee Department of Health of its vaccine outreach to youths, state lawmakers have also robbed the people of Tennessee of their own autonomy in health care decision-making.’
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June 2021
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the editor: Time is now to evacuate Afghan allies
I ask you to join me in urging our government to save his life, the lives of his family, and the lives of almost 18,000 Afghans and their families who trusted us.
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May 2021
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Don’t frame property tax rate in moral terms
‘I’m not opposed to funding social programs, but let’s do it without pretending there’s morality in extracting money from people this way.’
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Moving Juneteenth from Church Park dishonors a Black hero
“Redemption” cannot be obtained by moving the Juneteenth celebration from Church Park to Health Science Park.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: For Memphis, oil pipeline benefits are ‘zero,’ risks are many
One of the principal components of crude oil is benzene. It takes very little benzene to make a vast quantity of water completely undrinkable.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Consumer Energy Alliance is ‘astroturfing’
The Daily Memphian bills this as an opinion piece, and the author makes efforts to endear himself to us as a local, but this is not an opinion piece by a local. It is astroturfing by the oil industry.
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April 2021
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Area E resident ready to toss city trash service
Regarding Memphis solid waste collection, a letter writer says she would drop city services ‘like a hot potato' if other options for garbage pickup were available for citizens in Cordova.
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Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor: Gun violence, nonprofit dilemma
Letters today discuss gun violence and the dilemma nonprofits face thanks to the pandemic.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Gun violence is a public health emergency
Addressing gun violence as a true epidemic means we create a public health framework around the safety of youth.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Nonprofits face a financial dilemma
The coming summer months will be vital for our young people as we aim to make up for the learning opportunities they lost, while combating increased rates of hunger and food insecurity.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Bills favor vaping industry, not public health
House Bill 705 and Senate Bill 1047 serve to protect the tobacco industry’s financial interests and stop our ability to take local action to protect our youth.
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March 2021
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Change the law that ties child support to voting
The intent of the law is not about concern for struggling single mothers, but a means of unfairly denying the right to vote to thousands of Tennesseans.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Tennessee legislators ignore people’s will on gun laws
‘In this climate of higher crime and well-publicized and random mass shootings across America, why would our legislators choose to ignore the will of the people and loosen gun laws?’
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: New appraisals of flooded Germantown houses are unfair
‘I recently received a new appraisal that did not reflect the fact that my property was flooded at all. On top of this unfair/unwarranted rate, we have been informed that re-assessments will take place more often in the future to account for growing property values.’
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Favoring electric vehicles is ‘bad policy’
“ ‘Zero emission’ is a misnomer. Electric vehicles must be recharged regularly using electricity generated by power plants.”
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Don’t eliminate comments
Without the comment section, it is a one-way narrative of the writer, who almost always leaves out questions that need to be answered.
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Letters to the Editor Letter to the Editor: Standing for the Asian American community
‘While we have lived for a year with one type of fear and anxiety, we cannot let the COVID-19 virus stoke fear in the other.’
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