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Truce with deer prompts odd backyard defense schemes
Local editor Gary Metro recounts clashes with deer over bird feeding in his yard. Readers suggest solutions from humane sprays to inventive deterrents. A reader reports a Georgia fatal deer attack and the piece ends with advice to adjust bird feed to deter deer, or listen to his wife.
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Wiens
Metro
Teven
WSBTV
Georgia
Debbie
No helmet mandatory coverage column to editors
A reader commends a newspaper cover on motorbike safety and urges stronger helmet laws. The letter proposes ABATE lobby alignment across states and links insurance claim denial to lack of safety gear, including seat belts, arguing premiums fund irresponsible riders.
Salute to the Marion V A Hospital staff in Carbondale
Thomas Hippensteen Sr. greets the Marion V A Hospital team in Carbondale for their competent friendly care since March 2004. He notes transfers from Long Beach, Dr Patel and staff in Rose Clinic, and praise for admissions, pharmacy, labs, and cafeteria amid upcoming inspector general and ORM report disclosures.
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ORM
Marion V.A. Hospital
Long Beach
Calif
Rose Clinic
R. Patel
R.N. Trish Amdenstock
LPN
Sue Thompson
Thomas Hippensteen Sr
USMCR
Carbondale
Taxpayers Fight Governor Over Health Care Enrollment
Richard Caro leads taxpayers in a lawsuit challenging the governor's unilateral enrollment of ineligible individuals in a health care program. The Taxpayers Federation cautions that unchecked action threatens separation of powers and constitutional governance, urging judicial review to protect tax dollars and legislative authority.
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Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois
General Assembly
Richard Caro
J. Thomas Johnson
Call them what they really are Mercenaries in the American war machine
The author demands dropping euphemisms and labels mercenaries as what they are, arguing the globe trotting private army profits from conflict, fears weapon sales, calls for ending involvement in a war built on lies, budget excess, and pushes for impeachment and accountability.
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America
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