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It's good to see Fred Kalisz, who spent eight years on the New Bedford City Council followed by another eight as mayor, returning to a hands-on, service-oriented position. He has accepted the executive directorship of Parents Alliance for Catholic...

Pope Benedict XVI didn't raise just the issue of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. He raised the bar on how to respond to the crisis.

In The Standard-Times edition of April 15, there was a picture of a young woman carrying a sign in Washington, D.C., that said, "Catholic priests are predators." This sign was very disturbing to clergy and laity alike.

At the risk of overstepping my bounds, I'd like to express a few thoughts on behalf of Mother Nature. Just recently, she received a wonderful cleansing thanks to the rallying powers of the Westport River Watershed Alliance and other organizations but...

Photo warrants an apology

Gib Brogan's op-ed, "Block fishing to protect turtles," is more a testament to his and Oceana's single-minded and virtually deranged focus on the scallop fishery. For context, this fishery accounts for less than one percent of all loggerhead turtle...

This is in reference to the Dartmouth money crisis. Not having a business degree and learning everything I have through common sense, I am only voicing my option on saving some money.

Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, had reassuring news for the American people at a Senate hearing on Thursday: "We are confident the (blood-thinning drug) heparin in the United States...

A colleague of ours — a flyfisherman for whom the first appearance of striped bass in local waters is very near a religious experience — announced last week his son had called to report his first striper of the season.

The April 23 My View piece advocated the importation of larger numbers of foreign high-tech workers for jobs requiring education and skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM specialties) through an expansion in the number of H-1B visas...

I have yet to remove my John Edwards bumper sticker, and I am not a Hillary fanatic à la Thelma Goldstein, God bless her! (Ninety years old, holding a sign on a Pennsylvania street corner and checking her schedule to see if she can fit in campaign stops...

In response to the April 24 letter that expressed "dismay" over the police log item that identified the gender of an arresting officer as a female, I, for one, am glad it was published.

Does anyone, anywhere, still drink tap water? You wouldn't know it from the size of the bottled water aisle in all the local supermarkets.

During the recent frenzy over regionalization, questions were raised about Cape Cod fire departments needing ladder trucks when tall buildings are generally not allowed here.

Citizens of the town of Barnstable, stop this idiotic waste of taxpayer money.

It's probably not a recommended strategy for a political candidate to be pushing for higher taxes and fees. It's sort of like asking a drowning man if he'd like a drink of water.

Jennifer Tickell of Sandwich is correct ("Vote carefully if schools matter to you," My View, April 22). As a retired educator, mother and grandmother, I value our schools and the education process.