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Cape Cod Times Opinion

• January 05, 2009
• 6:00

  That buzz you hear

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 5th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  There is a surprisingly large amount of undeveloped land hidden away in central Yarmouth, midway between Route 6A and the Mid Cape Highway. The Camp Greenough Boy Scout Camp has been there for ages, reached by a narrow dirt road through the pines.

• 6:00

  Infrastructure spending can prepare us for future

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 5th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  The incoming Obama administration utilizes the word infrastructure in identifying the target for federal spending to help bring our nation out of the present economic slump.

• 6:00

  Legalizing more sensible than current drug policy

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 5th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  In response to Lawrence Brown's Dec. 26 column, legalizing the majority of drugs is clearly a "second best" choice. As a professional economist, I can state that the economics of the drug market is clear: Making drugs illegal adds costs, i.e.

• 6:00

  Regionalizing won't work for local customer service

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 5th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Scott Dalton's Dec. 28 column on the farming out of the Cape Cod Times member services is inaccurate.

• 6:00

  Demand accountability to restore the rule of law

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 5th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  I agree with David Agnew's comment on the Iraq war (Letters, Dec. 26) that "no amount of spin can undo this tragic crime against humanity, which has devastated millions of lives.

• 6:00

  Chance to secure our energy future

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 5th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Despite the severe economic downturn that we Americans are about to experience in the beginning of 2009, one can almost sense the collective sigh of relief on America's roadways. When gasoline hit $4.

• January 04, 2009
• 6:00

  How nursing homes score

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 4th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Nursing homes are sometimes the best possible living situation for our elderly family and friends, and yet the decision to place your mother or father in such a facility can be agonizing and requires a considerable leap of faith about the care they...

• 6:00

  Smoking bans reminiscent of a horrifying epoch

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 4th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Everyone, even smokers, will admit that, on some level, smoking is not good.

• 6:00

  Liberal media go ga-ga over anything Kennedy

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 4th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  What amazes me in the battle for the recently vacated Senate seat in the great state of New York, as a result of Hillary Clinton's imminent nomination as our secretary of state, is the liberal media.

• 6:00

  Instead of giving bailouts, why not cut income tax?

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 4th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Our current economic crisis has provoked both major political parties to endorse the same "bailout" solutions, directed toward Wall Street giants, banks, insurance giants, maybe the auto industry, etc. Now, everyone else is lining up for our tax dollars.

• 6:00

  Murder of innocents is Hamas' express goal

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 4th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  I am repulsed and outraged over the stream of vitriolic letters Jan. 1 directed against Israel.

• 6:00

  Bush didn't initiate idea that Saddam had WMDs

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 4th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  I would like to refer Rowland Scherman (Letters, Dec. 30) to a speech delivered by Bill Clinton on Feb. 17, 1998, and statements made by many other left-of-center politicians of the time citing the danger of WMDs and the need for action in Iraq.

• 6:00

  Children can't hide from heinous crimes

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 4th, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Most newspapers don't publish the names of juvenile offenders, but probably not for the reason you think. Most media abide by a policy not to disclose in most cases. It's not a law — there's no statute that prohibits publication of the names.

• January 03, 2009
• 6:00

  Reinvent the union

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  The Southern senators who demonized the United Auto Workers and torpedoed the Senate's recent auto industry bailout have forgotten some significant history.

• 6:00

  Only another cease-fire can protect Gaza's people

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  The recent attacks on Gaza are to be condemned. Israel's slow strangulation of Gaza through blockade has caused widespread suffering to the 1.5 million people of Gaza due to lack of food, electricity, water treatment supplies and medical equipment.

• 6:00

  Hamas has wrought its imminent destruction

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  What Israel is doing is far overdue. In 2008 alone Hamas launched 3,000 rockets into civilian areas, including schools and medical centers.

• 6:00

  Palestinians instigated; Israelis just retaliated

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  It is ridiculous that the Palestinians are crying foul when they instigated the whole problem. They will not let Israel live in peace and started the whole problem, which causes retaliation.

• 6:00

  Hamas rockets dislodge closet 'humanitarians'

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  When Israel attempts to defend itself, out come the so-called "humanitarians.

• January 02, 2009
• 10:30

  Hung over - and it's not from New Year's

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 10:30am EST

  Usually, people wake up on New Year's Day with a hangover. I've had one for [[months. ]] It's not just this year, really"» I've been working on my hangover for a long time.

• 10:30

  $1.59 a gallon, so we stopped trying

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 10:30am EST

  Much of the news in recent weeks has been focused on the faltering economy. Many have expressed concerns about the price of crude oil and gasoline, and whether the government should provide relief to the automobile manufacturers.

• 6:00

  Cheers & Jeers

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Cool the ardor in the arbor

• 6:00

  Learn from China in planning for population

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  As an immigrant who used to prepare immigration applications, I feel compelled to respond to your Dec. 21 article "Young immigrant population booms on the Cape.

• 6:00

  Mentally ill can't tolerate anticipated budget cuts

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  The prospect of the now-necessary budget cuts in state and federal programs leaves me wondering: What are mental health consumers who attend daily clubhouses going to do if the Cape's clubhouse budgets are eliminated, along with so many other worthy...

• 6:00

  We must unite locally in this troubled season

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Think this holiday season of the millions of Americans who are living the story of Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life.

• 6:00

  FEMA can help towns with flood insurance eligibility

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Your Dec. 12 paper brought attention to a crucial topic in the story "Discount program underutilized," which discussed the National Flood Insurance Program's Community Rating System.

• 6:00

  Urge Congress to reject administration pardons

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 6:00am EST

  It is bad enough that there is even a question about illegal acts committed by this administration; but if there is a possibility that they might pardon themselves before any investigation even occurs is, to me, an open admission of guilt.

• January 01, 2009
• 6:00

  Reversing the flow

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 1st, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Our series of four Sunday reports called "Genexit," about the challenge of keeping working-age young people and their families on Cape Cod, offered much data and some good ideas for balancing a demographic that tips too far to the aged side of the scale.

• 6:00

  Bombing of Gaza Strip is unlawful and unjust

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 1st, 2009, 6:00am EST

  The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) condemns Israel's bombing of the Palestinians in Gaza.

• 6:00

  U.S. complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza Strip

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 1st, 2009, 6:00am EST

  In shock and outrage I want to protest against Israel's violent aerial assault against the captive and virtually defenseless people of Gaza.

• 6:00

  U.S. cannot justify bankrolling Israel

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 1st, 2009, 6:00am EST

  The official 9/11 commission concluded that a major motive for the Sept. 11 attacks was revenge for America's support of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Dec. 27, Israel attacked Gaza with U.S.-supplied weaponry and implicit encouragement.

• 6:00

  Where is the outrage over Israel's brutality?

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: January 1st, 2009, 6:00am EST

  Is there no bottom to Israel's savagery, and always sanctioned by the U.S.? One family was killed in Mumbai a month ago, and there was universal wailing.

• December 31, 2008
• 6:10

  East, West can share schools' best

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 31st, 2008, 6:10am EST

  I have recently returned from teaching English in South Korea for two years and I was delighted to see your Dec. 11 editorial, "Light in the East?" I think it is about time that we address the issue of Asian students' supremacy in math and science.

• 6:10

  'Tis the season for lists

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 31st, 2008, 6:10am EST

  And we love lists, don't we? Top 10. Top 25. Top 50. Top 100. "To Do" lists. "How To" lists. Doesn't matter, just list it, baby.

• 6:00

  Before we forget

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 31st, 2008, 6:00am EST

  Here are excerpts from editorials that addressed some of the Cape's main issues in 2008:

• December 30, 2008
• 6:20

  Four steps to meltdown prevention

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 30th, 2008, 6:20am EST

  What can we do to get the economy back on a more sustainable track? How do we clean up this mess?

• 6:00

  Bail out auto industry, or newspapers?

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 30th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  Nothing like the new light of a new year, not to mention the collapse of the world as we know it, to encourage fresh thinking.

• 6:00

  Enriching the few

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 30th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  It's beginning to look a lot like a land grab, a gold rush, the promoters staking out town sites as the railroads thrust across the plains. But this land rush is happening off our shores.

• 6:00

  Troops serving in Iraq deserve a Christmas meal

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 30th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  My son is serving in Iraq and he didn't get a Christmas dinner or anything at his unit in Al-Asad.

• 6:00

  We disgraced Constitution by failing to impeach

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 30th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  It is astounding to me how complacent we have become with regard to the criminality from President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

• 6:00

  Hospice care is priceless for both patient and kin

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 30th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  I enjoyed the Dec. 22 editorial in on "The right to hospice.

• December 29, 2008
• 6:00

  Gun fans win again

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  The Bush administration's lame-duck regulation to allow concealed and loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges is seen as another round in the battle between the National Rifle Association and the many gun-shy Americans, and as a way for Bush...

• 6:00

  Joy rides and crashes

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  First of two parts:

• 6:00

  World War II vets won us the right to protest 'Nam

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  My father, a WWII B-24 pilot and a first-class patriot, brought me up to love my country, and I do. He also encouraged me to have the courage of my convictions, to stand up for what was right and just.

• 6:00

  Why do federal workers merit Boxing Day holiday?

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  With the economy in such disrepair, I find it most disconcerting that President Bush declared the Friday after Christmas a holiday for federal workers!

• 6:00

  Wind farm simulations don't convey beauty lost

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  The "simulated images" of the wind farm project contained on Cape Wind's Web site show how the turbine forest might look to the casual observer driving by.

• 6:00

  Anything is worth a try to keep pets from shelters

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  The incidence of families giving up pets due to foreclosure is increasing at an alarming rate. I can imagine the strain moving your family and finding a pet-friendly rental. As a "mother" of three dogs and one cat, trust me, I know.

• 6:00

  Thanks are due to angels among us

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:00am EST

  This morning we found our driveway cleared, enabling us to gain access to our mailbox. We are homebound and have difficulty walking. How thoughtful of someone to be so helpful. We are grateful and shall try to "pay it forward.

• December 28, 2008
• 6:55

  Zip trip

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 28th, 2008, 6:55am EST

  How would you like to board a train in Boston and be in Washington, D.C., in four hours, 45 minutes? That's compared to the current 6 hours and 30 minutes on a good day for the Acela Express.

• 6:55

  Connection to MBL was worth a mention

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 28th, 2008, 6:55am EST

  A curious article appeared in your pages Dec. 20 titled "Nominee directed research center." The subtitle was "Pick for White House science adviser also served under Clinton administration.

• 6:55

  Resolve to show our kids the beauty of Cape Cod

   » ‎ Cape Cod Times Opinion

  Posted: December 28th, 2008, 6:55am EST

  Soon we all will be putting together our resolution list for 2009. If you are like me, you won't stick to too many — especially the one where you promise to drop 10 pounds.