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Reynolds is best for commission

While Republicans in Congress and the White House are probably right that a tax on windfall profits earned by the big oil companies won't do anything to boost oil production or reduce the cost of oil, they miss an important point: Billions of dollars...

While most everyone wishes the hurt feelings over a welcome sign at Buttonwood Park would just evaporate, the New Bedford City Council was wise to insist that everybody learn something from it.

I have been in this job for a little over a year now and have had the opportunity to fully assess what the actual powers and obligations of the Select Board are. The power of the Select Board — and the town's ability to effectively control spending...

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New fire station is affordable

Democrats controlled House under Reagan

How Congress can cut our gasoline prices

Whatever Gov. Deval Patrick's reasons may be for replacing respected Seaport Advisory Council chief Richard Armstrong, they certainly aren't clear.

As executive director of Shore Support, an organization that works in the interest of fishermen in this great port, I would like to clarify something written in the June 10 Standard-Times regarding boat owners dealing with the pressures of the raging...

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Reynolds worthy of Conservation Commission

New Bedford's purchase of private property contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals shows the city is doing everything it can to remedy the mistakes of the past.

Pundit commentary about the Democratic primary is either saying Barack Obama won due to his brilliant campaign strategy and execution or Hillary Clinton lost due to her lack of the same. While it makes sense that either one or both of these observations...

Prime Minister Olmert of Israel was in the United States for a three-day visit June 3-5 to meet with President Bush and the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Together, these politically weak leaders will formulate their final plans for...

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Glad they picked Voc-Tech

For nearly a decade now, I've been writing about controversies regarding the relationship between weight and health. In the course of studying the matter, I've concluded that much of the conventional wisdom about the subject is simply wrong.

If Dartmouth hopes to see any financial clarity in the upcoming years, its officials might do well to follow the mandates of its 2000 Town Charter, particularly before looking to taxpayers for ongoing overrides.

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From what we read in the June 7 Standard-Times, heard on the radio, or saw on TV or the Internet, things are about to get really bad for America. We have, until fairly recently, ignored the lessons that we should have learned about 35 years ago about oil.

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Summer isn't summer in SouthCoast without waterfront fun, so boaters have good reason to worry about high gas prices. After all, their vacations are at stake.

With ruinous gas prices, a sluggish economy and an anemic dollar, America's self-esteem has taken a little battering of late. Here's something to restore it.

We just had Town Meeting in Dartmouth last week, and we just had an override for general government services and added funding for police officers. I'm realizing today after an animal incident that town leadership, the Finance Committee and Town Meeting...

I'd intended to spend only one night in Toulouse, in southern France. But when I tried to buy a train ticket to Madrid on the evening of my arrival, I discovered that the following day was dedicated to a general strike. Trains, buses, and even many...

Sheriff's op-ed played on fear

High-school graduation represents the culmination of four years of academic work that cannot be negated by one night of bad judgment.

Blame citizens for energy crisis

In the heat of the Democratic primary campaign, some on the left were inspired to believe that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., offered a far-reaching transformation of U.S. foreign policy, "the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a...

Garry's Trudeau's popular comic strip, Doonesbury, will return to The Standard-Times' editorial page June 16 after a 12-week hiatus.

We stand at the dawn of Father's Day, the tribute created out of guilt to add balance, to fix an oversight.

If our nation can ever heal itself after this past eight years of abusive power, it must begin by formally accusing the perpetrators and acknowledging those crimes that have lowered our standing in the world and in our own self-esteem.

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I am an employee of the Pavilion in Hyannis currently out on medical leave to receive chemo treatment. I want the community to know about the kind of people caring for their loved ones at the Pavilion.

Fortunately we had a few great days to enjoy the beach in Falmouth. Warm sunny weather, cool breeze and seaweed- and bug-free days.

Finally! Charles Krauthammer's idea of increasing gasoline taxes, though a bit aggressive, is one of the only ways to bring down (yes, you read that correctly) oil and gasoline prices in the short run ("The power of four dollars," op-ed, June 10).

Regarding your June 7 report on nurse-patient ratios, registered nurses in this country have long held the view that there should be legislated mandates on the nurse-patient ratio.

Mark Twain is rumored to have said, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." That's not the case with readers of the Cape Cod Times.