Letters
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We are still asleep
by Richard Riggs, Rome
Jun 17, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
While experiencing my tour of duty during the Vietnam era, I really never thought about how my dad felt about his experiences in Korea. I am second-generation Navy and was so proud to do my part i...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Team name is offensive – with a twist
by Mary G. Underwood, Rome
Jun 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about a move to change the name of the Washington Redskins. It seems that some are offended by the name, so I began to first try to determine how the name could harm...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Re-check the facts
by Paul F. Culotta, Rome
Jun 17, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The writer of the letter titled “Check the facts” obviously is not a fan of President Obama and wants to blame him for all of our country’s economic woes. Perhaps he was hoping that everyone would ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Lighten up on government Fifes
by Nevin Baker, Rome
Jun 07, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
You can’t put bans and new laws every time something goes wrong. Chiseling away at our freedoms. Look at the times when things go right. We will always have mistakes and idiots. A message to all t...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Odd hand out
by Jack Runninger, Rome
Jun 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
The letter to the editor from (Georgia Conservancy President) Pierre Howard about the U.S. 411 controversy was funny without intending to be. “The truth is,” said he, “that if both sides would com...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary’s history of lies
by William Steinhauer, Kingston
Jun 07, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
How ironic that on the day three courageous Americans were testifying in Washington about the 9/11/12 attack on the Benghazi consulate, one of the worst performers in that debacle, Hillary Clinton,...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Check the facts
by Randy Smith, Rome
Jun 07, 2013 | 17 17 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
A recent writer wants us to think President Obama’s and the Democratic Party’s policies are working? Sadly, that writer appears to believe all he hears on the mainstream media without actually chec...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Creating humor
by Nancy H. Johnson, Rome
Jun 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
I would like to commend Dick Yarbrough on his editorial published in the Rome News-Tribune Saturday, June 1. The title was “Waiting for atheists to create a sunset or a duck-billed platypus.” Now, ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Play up our boat ramps
by Reid Parker, Rome
Jun 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
I am writing to you as a requirement for my Boy Scouts communications merit badge. In my opinion, the city of Rome would benefit from greater access to and signage indicating access points for boat...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Time to compromise on the 411 Connector northern route
by Pierre Howard, President, Georgia Conservancy Atlanta
Jun 03, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
The Rome News-Tribune’s recent blog post on the long-standing U.S. 411 controversy is a reminder that the elephant in the room, so to speak, is that no one is saying that the road should not be bui...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Memory of Debby Brown lives on
by Rita Fowler, Rome
Jun 03, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
My friend, Debby Brown, died May 20, and there will always be a hole in my heart that she left. I first met her at Chieftains Museum, and then there she was when our family went to Rome Little Thea...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The elephant stands revealed
by Bill Combs, Calhoun
Jun 03, 2013 | 4 4 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Truth is irrevocable and constant. The weight of its fullness presses for full recognition. The nose of the elephant signifies and precedes its actual bulk, which will ultimately follow. Amazingly,...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Support your local international opera star
by Betty Zane Morris, Rome
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Romans will have a chance to hear and appreciate one of our own shining stars as Jamie Barton, mezzo soprano, appears in a concert at First Baptist Church, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Jamie grew up in A...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Commissioners evasive on backyard chickens
by Erin Lewis, Rome
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
I have encountered some problems lately with a couple of our Rome city commissioners. I was told that I could have a meeting with a certain commissioner about a decision she helped make which rest...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hunting blue snake, Bauxite Monster
by Charlie Swearingen, former Roman
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Back in the late '60s a real big blue snake was found in a lake that used to be an old bauxite mine in Rome. I tried every way under the sun to search on the computer but can’t retrieve that articl...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tax dollars recouped
by ML McCorkle, Rome
May 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Today lightning hit our house and flames were coming out of the cable box. I called 911, and the fire department arrived promptly — even though we live outside of the city limits and up a steep hil...
  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: It could happen here
    by Joseph B. Gesing, Silver Creek
    05.24.13 - 06:30 am
  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Honor your fallen before you play on Memorial Day
    by Hartwell Nolan LCDR, USN, retired, Shannon
    05.24.13 - 06:30 am
  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Exciting times, jealousy in downtown Rome
    by S. David Doss, managing partner, Samson Development Group, Rome
    05.17.13 - 06:30 am
  • IN 2004, Arizona voters approved a measure demanding proof of citizenship from those who seek to register to vote in the state. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled the measure invalid.

    The court looked to the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, also known as the motor voter law, which was supposed to streamline voter registration across the country. Among other things, it empowered a commission to develop a common registration form that all states have to “accept and use” to populate federal election rolls. The resulting form requires a signed affirmation of citizenship but no supporting documents. Under its 2004 law, though, Arizona rejected completed federal forms without documentation.

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    2013-06-17 19:15:00 -0400

    IN RESPONSE to the outcry that followed Robert Ethan Saylor’s fatal encounter with off-duty deputies in Frederick County, Sheriff Charles A. Jenkins promised “that this agency is transparent and that all the facts will be presented when the investigations are completed.” But the public is still in the dark about how the refusal of this young man to leave a movie theater could end in his death. Now come troubling details about the department’s handling of another incident that also resulted in death. It’s enough to make one wonder who exactly is being protected in Frederick County and whether it’s time for an independent look by outside agencies. The circumstances of the two cases, occurring within days of each other in January, vary greatly, but each raises issues of whether these fatalities could have been avoided had authorities acted differently.

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    2013-06-17 19:14:44 -0400

    HASSAN ROUHANI will be Iran’s next president not only because he was picked by a majority of Iranian voters but also because the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, chose to accept his victory. That decision surprised us and some Western experts on Iran, but in retrospect there was good reason for it. Had the Islamic regime falsified the results and blocked Mr. Rouhani, it would have risked a repeat of the popular uprising that followed the 2009 election, when followers of reformist candidates concluded — probably rightly — that the reelection of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been rigged.

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    2013-06-17 17:33:00 -0400

    IT’S WELL understood that if nuclear war ever comes, it is the president who has to make the fateful decisions. But if the United States ever faced a genuine conflict in cyberspace, with decisions having to be made at network speed against adversaries unknown or hard to find, who would be in charge? A major attempt to sort this out at the highest levels is evident in President Policy Directive 20, which President Obama signed last October. The directive is still classified as top secret but was among the papers spilled into public view by Edward Snowden, the contractor for the National Security Agency who also revealed classified materials on Internet and telephone surveillance.

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