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Greensboro speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Dec. 13, 2024

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Greensboro speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Dec. 13, 2024

• Dec 13, 2024
• Dec 13, 2024 Updated Dec 13, 2024

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Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Greensboro News and Record.

1

Letter: Triad region needs new natural gas pipeline

• Dec 11, 2024

In Greensboro last week, temperatures plummeted to nearly 20 degrees. Thousands of households and business owners relied on natural gas to keep warm.

As more Americans call the Piedmont Triad home, the demand for a stable and reliable energy supply has grown. This energy heats homes and also powers electric generation to provide essential services and consumer conveniences like video streaming services.

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Letter: DEI becomes a GOP boogeyman for Guilford school board

• Dec 11, 2024

Regarding the letter "New chair, please!" (Dec. 10):

Amazing how the latest Republican boogeyman, DEI, is the subject of the radical right's disdain. It used to be CRT — before that it escapes me — but race is always involved. This binary thinking is perpetrated on us by those who think there is loss if another gains, deprivation if another benefits.

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Letter: What about Barron Trump? Is he a citizen under his father's proposal?

• Dec 11, 2024

Barron Trump was born March 2006. His mother Melania was not a U.S. citizen until July 2006.

So, Barron Trump was born in the U.S. to a noncitizen mother.

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Letter: Guilford school board need s a new chair

• Dec 10, 2024

New chair, please!

I pray that, at the Dec. 10 Guilford County school board meeting, members will vote in a new chair, a chair who will focus on the academic success of all students.

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5

Letter: Deny. Depose. Defend. Tragic killing shines a harsh light on health care in the US

• Dec 10, 2024

Deny. Depose. Defend.

These words reportedly were written on the casings of the bullets used recently to murder the CEO of United Healthcare, who was on his way to a meeting with investors. Was this a false lead or a reference by the assassin to the health insurance industry’s money-retaining methods, which “deny the claim, depose the patient and defend the lawsuit”?

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Letter: The answer to clear: Medicare for all

• Dec 9, 2024

From the News You Can Use Department comes a plausible headline: “Murder of health insurance executive re-ignites debate over US health care.”

But to actually put the debate to use, Americans need knowledge of available alternatives.

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Sunday's letters: Yvonne Johnson: Diligence and dignity

• Dec 8, 2024

Johnson’s example

During her many years of diligent service to the city of Greensboro and other community organizations, Yvonne Johnson was impressive in the way she did her homework and carefully expressed her views.

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Friday's letters: Fire the coach? What about the lousy players?

• Dec 6, 2024

Hold players accountable

"We believe the team needs to move in a different direction" ... the phrase every head coach hates to hear.

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Letter: Joe Biden’s U-turn on Hunter's pardon

• Dec 13, 2024

Although I was always “Never Trump,” I was never 100% pro-Biden or pro-Harris.

I was unhappy about the Afghanistan withdrawal, the southern border, and a policy suggesting that college students and graduates need not repay their debts. Now I can add Uncle Joe making a U-turn on a pardon for his guilty son. I understand the reason for pardoning Hunter Biden, but I am torn. I could easily argue both sides of that issue.

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Letter: Trump wasn’t ‘honored’ as Time's Person of the Year

• Dec 13, 2024

Get it right, AP. You printed an article on Dec. 12 with the title “Trump will be honored as Time’s Person of the Year.” Please don’t say that Trump was “honored” to be named Person of the Year this year. The Time Person of the Year recognizes the individual, group or concept that has most significantly impacted the world over the previous 12 months. It is about influence, not honor.

Saddam Hussein was named Man of the Year in 1990 (the title was changed to “Person” in 1999). So, Trump is sharing the title with a despot, murderer and thief, and that is not an “honor.” Stop helping Trump elevate himself; he does that more than enough. The man has mastered self-aggrandizement. He has even posted fake pictures of himself on the Time cover in his golf clubs.

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Letter: State lawmakers give neglected public schools the cold shoulder. Literally.

• Dec 13, 2024

Neglected schools

As a teacher who is in his 45th year of teaching in Greensboro, I feel compelled to comment on this battle between our legislators, public and private school funding and the conditions of our schools.

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Letter: Triad region needs new natural gas pipeline

In Greensboro last week, temperatures plummeted to nearly 20 degrees. Thousands of households and business owners relied on natural gas to keep warm.

As more Americans call the Piedmont Triad home, the demand for a stable and reliable energy supply has grown. This energy heats homes and also powers electric generation to provide essential services and consumer conveniences like video streaming services.

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Letter: DEI becomes a GOP boogeyman for Guilford school board

Regarding the letter "New chair, please!" (Dec. 10):

Amazing how the latest Republican boogeyman, DEI, is the subject of the radical right's disdain. It used to be CRT — before that it escapes me — but race is always involved. This binary thinking is perpetrated on us by those who think there is loss if another gains, deprivation if another benefits.

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Letter: What about Barron Trump? Is he a citizen under his father's proposal?

Barron Trump was born March 2006. His mother Melania was not a U.S. citizen until July 2006.

So, Barron Trump was born in the U.S. to a noncitizen mother.

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Letter: Guilford school board need s a new chair

New chair, please!

I pray that, at the Dec. 10 Guilford County school board meeting, members will vote in a new chair, a chair who will focus on the academic success of all students.

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Letter: Deny. Depose. Defend. Tragic killing shines a harsh light on health care in the US

Deny. Depose. Defend.

These words reportedly were written on the casings of the bullets used recently to murder the CEO of United Healthcare, who was on his way to a meeting with investors. Was this a false lead or a reference by the assassin to the health insurance industry’s money-retaining methods, which “deny the claim, depose the patient and defend the lawsuit”?

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Letter: The answer to clear: Medicare for all

From the News You Can Use Department comes a plausible headline: “Murder of health insurance executive re-ignites debate over US health care.”

But to actually put the debate to use, Americans need knowledge of available alternatives.

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Sunday's letters: Yvonne Johnson: Diligence and dignity

Johnson’s example

During her many years of diligent service to the city of Greensboro and other community organizations, Yvonne Johnson was impressive in the way she did her homework and carefully expressed her views.

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Friday's letters: Fire the coach? What about the lousy players?

Hold players accountable

"We believe the team needs to move in a different direction" ... the phrase every head coach hates to hear.

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Letter: Joe Biden’s U-turn on Hunter's pardon

Although I was always “Never Trump,” I was never 100% pro-Biden or pro-Harris.

I was unhappy about the Afghanistan withdrawal, the southern border, and a policy suggesting that college students and graduates need not repay their debts. Now I can add Uncle Joe making a U-turn on a pardon for his guilty son. I understand the reason for pardoning Hunter Biden, but I am torn. I could easily argue both sides of that issue.

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Letter: Trump wasn’t ‘honored’ as Time's Person of the Year

Get it right, AP. You printed an article on Dec. 12 with the title “Trump will be honored as Time’s Person of the Year.” Please don’t say that Trump was “honored” to be named Person of the Year this year. The Time Person of the Year recognizes the individual, group or concept that has most significantly impacted the world over the previous 12 months. It is about influence, not honor.

Saddam Hussein was named Man of the Year in 1990 (the title was changed to “Person” in 1999). So, Trump is sharing the title with a despot, murderer and thief, and that is not an “honor.” Stop helping Trump elevate himself; he does that more than enough. The man has mastered self-aggrandizement. He has even posted fake pictures of himself on the Time cover in his golf clubs.

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Letter: State lawmakers give neglected public schools the cold shoulder. Literally.

Neglected schools

As a teacher who is in his 45th year of teaching in Greensboro, I feel compelled to comment on this battle between our legislators, public and private school funding and the conditions of our schools.

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