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Opinion
Letters Give back the raise
Letters Give back the raise
January 18, 2011 1:24 pm

To think that Randy Gaylord would accept,(much less be given), a $19,000/year raise is not only obscene, it is totally inappropriate, given the stark realities we are facing these days of budget cuts, lack of money, ferry woes, transfer station problems, increased fees all across the board.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
January 18, 2011 1:24 pm

WASHINGTON — “High Capacity Magazines … When ten rounds isn’t enough,” the Internet site offers. When, exactly, would that be?…

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Letters
Letters
January 1, 2011 12:51 am

The San Juan County Solid Waste program is in trouble. For starters we suggest the following:

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
January 1, 2011 12:51 am

WASHINGTON — The vice president calls, more than an hour after the appointed time but with an impeccable excuse: He was presiding over the Senate’s vote to ratify the New START treaty.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
December 27, 2010 1:02 am

WASHINGTON — I’m hoping for the moment when a federal judge picked by a Democratic president strikes down the health care law. Or when a Republican-appointed judge upholds it.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
December 17, 2010 7:42 pm

WASHINGTON — The speaker got weepy.

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Letters
Letters
December 10, 2010 7:57 pm

A few of our County Council members are determined to help out the enormous US wireless industry by drafting a new ordinance that makes it easier to locate cell towers in tiny SJC. Bad idea, County Council! Improving cell phone service is essentially a form of manslaughter.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
December 10, 2010 7:57 pm

WASHINGTON — Maybe I’m getting carried away because it is the season to believe in miracles, but the tax-cut deal just might turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
November 26, 2010 7:54 pm

WASHINGTON — My family, as it happens, is taking the bus to Grandma’s this Thanksgiving. But our choice of transportation has nothing to do with anxiety about leering security screeners or fear of pat-downs.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
November 19, 2010 7:57 pm

WASHINGTON — It was, or so I thought, a dandy column idea: an imaginary, missing chapter of George W. Bush’s “Decision Points,” in which the former president would admit to having made the wrong call on taxes.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
November 12, 2010 8:23 pm

WASHINGTON — The day after his shellacking, the bruised president offered a sober, tripartite analysis of voters’ message. First, he said, voters are fed up with Washington partisanship and special-interest politics. Second, they feel insecure and uncertain, about their economic circumstances above all.

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
November 5, 2010 7:48 pm

The President of the United States:

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Ruth Marcus
Ruth Marcus
October 29, 2010 8:11 pm

WASHINGTON — Excuse me, Mary Fallin, did I just hear you say, “Woman up”?

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