http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_311022235.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:22:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_311022235.html And how can Democrats claim to be able to provide more insurance to more people for less money? Because, they say, government will eliminate the waste and fraud from health care that private industry cannot.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_311011955.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:19:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_311011955.html Yankees captain Derek Jeter after New York beat Philadelphia to capture its first World Series title since 2000.
"How do you get customers to walk two or three blocks to go to a restaurant?"]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_311011922.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:19:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_311011922.html This is in response to "Bad freedom:" By the sound of your gripe, you lost your freedom to discriminate against blacks, Hispanics, and women, and you lost your freedom to beat up a homosexual. If you don't like the United States with its improvement over the years, then leave the country. We don't need people like you.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310034121.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:41:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310034121.html http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310034154.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:41:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310034154.html Perhaps they shouldn't look too closely.
Massachusetts has had universal health care since 2006, thanks to former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy and the Democratic Legislature. At one level, it looks like a smashing success — according to state officials, nearly 98 percent of the state's residents have coverage of some kind.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310034037.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:40:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310034037.html After Tuesday's elections, it should be clear to Congress as a whole that the far-left course it has set for the nation's agenda is not what the American people voted for last year. Expect a conservative sweep in 2010 if they don't get the message now.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310033938.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:39:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310033938.html The push on for health care reform is a new tax on the lower middle class.
Not only do we have no specific details, but the bottom line seems to be that the middle class will fit the bill. We are taxed enough. I cannot afford to pay more so that others can have health insurance. ]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310033818.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:38:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310033818.html This is in regard to the Sound Off comment, "Christmas parties." Teachers do what they're told by city administration regarding the celebration of holidays. Teachers are not in charge of that situation. Teachers also do not have paid holidays. If school is not in session, then it doesn't mean that teachers are being paid.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310033847.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:38:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_310033847.html The next time some liberal gets in my face about how all Republicans are greedy and only interested in lining their pockets through pro-business, anti-regulation policies, and how altruistic and benevolent the Democrats are, I'm going to point to their pantheon of planet-saving heroes and their investment portfolios.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005345.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:53:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005345.html And that is only the first thing wrong with re-elected Methuen School Committeeman Kenneth Henrick's declaration that he will give up his seat to ousted fellow incumbent George Kazanjian, and Kazanjian's declaration that he would accept it.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005221.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:52:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005221.html But surely President Barack Obama and those in his political army aren't smiling this morning over the results of the gubernatorial elections Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005114.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:51:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005114.html The ongoing debate about health care requires out-of-the-box thinking, and I want to highlight one possible solution not being widely discussed: Wal-Mart.
Sure, Wal-Mart has a bad reputation because of its history of poverty-level wages, systematic discrimination, and wholesale slaughter of local businesses.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005148.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:51:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005148.html I would like to thank the North Andover firefighters and all the other volunteers who are repairing the clubhouse in North Andover. Thanks to all who gave the materials for the roofing and the siding and also for the food for the workers. You are all "great jakes." Thank you very, very much. ]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005037.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:50:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_309005037.html I read the front-page news about the boat ramp plan for the Old Bea's Sandwich property in Methuen and had to write you to set the record straight.
The people who live near that site are not opposed to it becoming a park/boat ramp, as City Councilor Deborah Quinn might have you believe. Her comment in the paper was, "The river belongs to everyone, not just the 10 people that live across the street from it." ]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308022003.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:20:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308022003.html http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308021902.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:19:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308021902.html The bloom is finally coming off the global warming rose. A NASA study of satellite temperature data over the last decade has revealed that global temperatures stopped rising in 1998 and have declined since then. Even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has grudgingly acknowledged that the temperature has dropped in spite of increasing CO2 production. ]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308021932.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:19:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308021932.html And thanks to that skill and some volunteer spirit, the almost derelict red shack in the left-field corner of Grogan's Field, off Baldwin Street in North Andover, is getting a complete makeover.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308021811.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:18:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_308021811.html On Oct. 14, unbeknownst to me, my cat snuck out of my home. Is Guernsey a special cat? By most people's standards probably not, but to me, for 12 years she has been my buddy and part of the family. ]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_307035415.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:54:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_307035415.html For weeks, or months, candidates for elective office and their supporters have bombarded you with signs, promises, PowerPoints, handshakes, fliers, brochures and even birthday cards. They have - most of them - debated one another on what is best for your communities. They have presented visions and plans for how to make life better, encourage economic growth, keep the streets clean and safe and educate the next generation.]]> http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_307035443.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:54:00 EST http://www.eagletribune.com/puopinion/local_story_307035443.html Questions that need to be asked about the North Andover CPA acquistion of Windrush Farm:
The town is planning to spend $2.5 million of our property tax-funded community preservation money to purchase 160 acres of land on the farthest end of town bordering the Boxford state forest. ]]>