To the editor:
I'm writing about the not-so-thoughtful column from Michael Cook: "Blood on the hands of drug users" (Jan. 27).
Caffeine is a drug, yet we have absolutely no crime related to it. Why? Because it is legal.
Nicotine is a drug, yet we have almost no crime related to it. Why? Because it is legal.
If we were to criminalize either of these products, the situation would soon change.
Kirk Muse
Mesa, Ariz.
Welcome news arrived this week that will go a long way toward fixing a big part of what ails Plum Island.
The Army Corps of Engineers has set aside $3.5 million for emergency repairs to the island's south jetty, the half-mile-long granite jetty that has contributed to erosion on the island. The money will be used to rebuild the slumping jetty to its designed height, which will prevent currents from washing through its breached sections.
Having lived to what was once known as "a great age," I find myself dealing with what I hadn't seen coming. It wasn't there when I was born, and it wasn't there when I came home from the great war more than a half century ago.
To the editor:
Regarding my letter (Jan. 30) refuting Newt Gingrich's attempt to make the name "Saul Alinsky" the political equivalent of the skull and crossbones warnings found on labels of potent cleaning agents, I must correct a miscalculation:
To the editor:
The concept of being able to see down the Merrimack River and some of the surrounding area from the new Whittier Bridge as a pedestrian or cyclist has appeal. However, one has to wonder just how safe the concept is.
To the editor:
At a meeting with abutters to the Bresnahan School, the mayor announced plans last week to build a three-story school in the playing fields behind the current school. Neighbors who were here in 1947 when the houses were built on Norman Avenue, Murphy Street and Low Street stated that those fields were then a giant sand pit. There were a number of complaints lodged with the builder, K.W. Wolsey and Company, regarding sand blowing over from the fields.
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