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  • Attend, listen and question

    Tuesday, October 15, 2019 4:00 AM
    Dear Editor,
    I’m directing this letter to the editor to all eligible voters in the city of Crawfordsville. 
    I would like to strongly urge all of you to attend tonight’s candidates’ forum. It’s sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, the Crawfordsville / Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana federal of Business and Professional Women.
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  • Appreciative of The Paper

    Tuesday, October 15, 2019 4:00 AM
    Dear Editor,
    Just a note to say how very appreciative we are—and, from what I hear—the community is—about you placing the LWV column right where people see it and read it. Much, much appreciated. It’s fun, for instance, to hear a fireman say how much League’s non-partisan information about our governance means to our community! (That happened at a meeting a few weeks ago.)
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  • Reader offers credit where it’s due

    Friday, October 11, 2019 1:02 AM
    Dear Editor,
    Regarding: Article reporting the Reality Store in the edition of Tuesday, 10/8/19. Thank you for your prompt coverage of the Reality Store held on Monday, October 7, at the Boys and Girls Club of Montgomery County. It is always uplifting to hear about the activities made available to the youth of our community through their schools and local volunteer organizations.
    Unfortunately, an adult group was overlooked in your reporting. Actually, it was the group under which the whole Reality Store has been planned and executed for many years here in Crawfordsville. Yes, the League of Women Voters took part in the election portion of the activity. Yes, the Boys and Girls Club facility provided the venue and much support for it. But the organizing entity was the Indiana Business and Professional Women of Crawfordsville, of which Nikki Conkright, whom you quoted at the end of the article, is the recent past president and this year’s chairman of the event. Every station that the young people visited in their two-hour dose of adult life was manned by members of the local BPW and/or someone recruited by a BPW member. All the signage and the table covers announced the participation of the BPW organization.
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  • Libertarians applaud marijuana decision

    Thursday, October 3, 2019 9:12 AM
    Dear Editor,
    On September 30, 2019, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced that it will no longer prosecute simple marijuana possession. Citing the disproportionate impact of marijuana enforcement on people of color, the resulting clogging of court system and jails and the taxing of limited resources, County Prosecutor Mears stated he’s found no connection between people arrested for small amounts of marijuana and violent crime. Mears joins a growing list of prosecutors in other municipalities around the country that are enacting similar policies and in some cases dropping all marijuana prosecution.
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  • Reader urges feedback on Thoroughfare Plan

    Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:26 AM
    Dear Editor,
    Montgomery County has drafted a Thoroughfare Plan. Two new roads are being planned in Northern Montgomery County that would divide our family farm into 4 pieces. 
    100 E (Concord Road) would be extended to 700 N.
    650 N would be a new road, connecting 150 E to 100 W. 
    Projected cost is $36,400,000.
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  • Writer urges Rep. Baird to support bill

    Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:39 AM
    Dear Editor,
    The events of the past year show that climate change is already impacting the world in devastating ways. California's last forest fire season was the worst on record. Spring flooding in the Midwest destroyed homes and threatened agriculture. This summer, Europe saw record-breaking heat waves, Greenland lost more ice than any other summer in modern history, and Siberian forests suffered massive fires. Finally, due to Dorian, 2019 became the fourth year in a row to see a category 5 hurricane, which is the longest streak on record.
    We need to take action, and one powerful step we can take is already in front of the U.S. House of Representatives - the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (H.R. 763). This bipartisan legislation uses a market-based approach to place a price on polluting our atmosphere. It would reduce carbon emissions without increasing government spending, all while returning monthly dividend checks to all U.S. households and creating jobs. I urge my congressperson, Representative Jim Baird (IN-4), to support this crucial bill, and I encourage all readers to learn more at energyinnovationact.org and urge their elected officials to support the bill as well.
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  • Reader questions LWV stance

    Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:15 PM
    Dear Editor,
    I read with interest the article in the Sept. 4, 2019 Paper regarding the League of Women Voters stance on the popular vote versus the Electoral College in National Elections. As I understand it, the LWV contends that an election for President should be determined by popular vote through the National Popular Vote Plan. The National Popular Vote Plan is an agreement among the states to guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in ALL 50 states and District of Columbia.
    The LWV goes on to state that the current system causes 35 states and VOTERS to be ignored in non-competitive states. In 2008, 98% of all $ was spent in just 15 battleground states. I don’t see how this would differ with the National Popular Vote Plan that they endorse. As a matter of fact, the number of voters in 12 states would total 56.54% of the total vote. If I were a national candidate, I would only have to get those votes to win the presidency. Since Indiana makes up only 2.02% of the National voting public why would I do any campaigning in Indiana.
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  • Sisters of Providence Leadership Team urge Trump to tone down

    Tuesday, August 20, 2019 8:09 AM
    Dear Editor,
    Members of our congregation’s leadership team just returned from the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, where they joined more than 650 leaders of orders of Catholic sisters who sent a letter to President Trump imploring him to end all divisive language. 
    Our entire Leadership Team from Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods also felt compelled to expand on this letter.
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  • Reader seeks to clarify recent topic

    Tuesday, July 30, 2019 7:44 PM
    Dear Editor,
    I have opened a can of worms on the last subjects that I have written and I need to clarify as fully as I can because it is confusing, but important. The important thing is what can be done is simple and relates to avoiding artificial folic acid (e.g., enriched cereal, specific vitamins) and opting for methylated vitamins if pregnant, or eating a well-balanced diet otherwise with strict avoidance of folic acid (found in buns, cereal, some breads) by opting for whole food. This should be my last letter on the subject. Some researchers say folic acid should be avoided by everyone, regardless of genes. It is best left to the individual to decide after learning about all risks and facts.
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  • Paris is in--- Hillsboro, Indiana?

    Tuesday, July 30, 2019 7:44 PM
    Dear Editor,
    Picture this. The lights slowly dim. Until you see nothing but black. Slowly, your eyes start to adjust and you see the soft blue exiting the doorframes seen on either side of the stage and the back center. The blue light, no doubt, coming from behind the stage, where the actors maneuver their way through the small isle that is backstage. Some in their own corners, humming a warm up, others stretching on the floor to ensure their muscles are agile and ready for the performance. A cluster just off from their entrance, ensuring they cannot see the audience (so the audience cannot see them)—whispering to as many fellow castmates as possible to “break a leg!” 
    Still in that dark, eyes completely adjusted so much that you start to think “oh, I guess this is enough light to see,” a strong “Omm” comes from the speakers just above the stage: booming to the audience that this show is about to begin. The circular stained glass illuminated to reveal a white dove in the center wall of the stage, raised as high as possible for audience to have full view. This, giving the stage depth and a recognition to the audience of the magnitude of what they’re about to see. 
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  • Reader clarifies earlier letter

    Saturday, July 27, 2019 8:13 AM
    Dear Editor,
    I wanted to add some thoughts to the last letter I wrote, and clarify some things. I painted a rose-colored world that offered a miracle cure that probably came across as a snake oil to someone suffering. It might be a miracle cure for some or even many people, but maybe not. 
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  • Bicyclist concerned about safety

    Thursday, July 18, 2019 4:00 AM
    Dear Editor,
    I ride my bicycle regularly on? Montgomery County roads and most people are very courteous when approaching and passing. Recently I’ve had a couple of incidents on Ladoga Road and 600 South where drivers come within a car length and honk their horn when nothing is coming in front of us so they can easily pass on the left. If I see oncoming traffic and I know a vehicle is behind me, then I move in front or behind my family member so we are riding single file. I do this because of safety and to be courteous, but I don’t have to do this as each bicycle is supposed to have the same rights of a car, right up to the centerline of the road.
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  • Thanking a kind stranger

    Thursday, July 18, 2019 4:00 AM
    Dear Editor,
    On July 9th my friend and I were at the Breakfast Co. and an unknown gentleman paid for our meals. I don’t know who this kind person was, but I would like to thank him!
    Betty Bishop
    Crawfordsville
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  • Letter to the editor

    Tuesday, July 16, 2019 4:00 AM
    Dear Editor,
    Thank you to all who helped make our 2019 Sugar Creek Township Neighborhood Gathering a success. We would like to thank all who donated to this event including Darlington Vet Clinic, Halderman Farm Services, HHSB Bank, Stookey’s Restaurant, Visible Changes Hair Salon, , and Woody Family Farms. We would also like to thank the Darlington Conservation Club for the use of the facility, Sarah Storms for creating the flier, John “Butch” Dale for gathering up and loaning old pictures from the Darlington Library, The Journal Review and The Paper of Montgomery Co for printing the announcement of our event, and the local radio station for promoting it. We appreciate everyone who attended, and anyone who helped in any way. 
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  • Stephens say thank you

    Wednesday, July 10, 2019 1:31 AM
    Dear Editor,
    We want to thank Terry & Pam for there hospitality and opening their beautiful home for our family. Also want to thank Debbie & jack and Cindy & Beth for making our 60th anniversary party special. It was a beautiful day. Would like to thank the Country Club for the great lunch. Want to thank everyone that sent cards, call or gave a gift, it was greatly appreciated.
    We treasure our family and everyone’s friendship. You are angels who lift us up. 
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