Letter: We need government to save us, Earth

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Letter: We need government to save us, Earth

Portions of Interstate 985 are getting a tree-clearing like what hasn't seen in 50 years. - photo by Scott Rogers

05052019 TREES 1.jpg — Portions of Interstate 985 are getting a tree-clearing like what hasn't seen in 50 years. - photo by Scott Rogers

Letter to the editor

Published: May 9, 2019, 8:49 PM

Last Sunday’s front page article about the DOT removing trees from alongside 985 disturbed me. I found the agency’s rationale suspect: “The major reason for clearing the trees is safety,” they say. My gut told me that there was probably an unspoken covert reason for this malign arboricide.I confess to a bias.

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Opinion: Trump officials should learn about loose lips sinking ships

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on March 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/TNS)

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on March 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/TNS)

Letter to the editor

Published: Mar 27, 2025, 9:00 PM

Quite a “Kerfuffle” (A better description begins with “S”) involving “inadvertently” including the editor of The Atlantic to a text chain with the president’s senior most cabinet members of his intelligence and defense agencies.

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