Fostering debate on health, abortion and infant mortality
Chicago Tribune columnist Joan Beck surveys the Foster nomination and the nation’s teen pregnancy, abortion, and infant mortality debates. She notes the political divide, the Planned Parenthood links, school condom policies, and a JAMA study showing immigrant women have lower infant mortality. The piece asks how behavior, policy, and morality can improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
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Gered
Foster
Planned Parenthood
Tennessee
Joycelyn Elders
American Academy of Pediatrics
AAP
United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
California
Senate
Sun Journal Forum condemns anti Jewish hate letter
Editor condemns a Forum letter backed by Dorothy and Roger Foy that denies the Holocaust. The piece denounces anti Semitic propaganda and revisionism, stating six million Jews were killed by Nazis. The letter calls such bigotry un American and harmful to Eastern North Carolina community.
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Sun Journal
Dorothy
Roger Foy
Bataan
Foys
Hollywood
Feys
North Carolina
Hatred in Letter Angers Sun Journal Readers
Bettie J. Monaghan of New Bern condemns readers for anti minority remarks in a Sun Journal letter. She urges writers to weigh documented facts about the Holocaust and KKK, criticizing smug know-it-alls and urging constructive focus on human inhumanity and prevention.
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Sun Journal
KKK
Bettie J. Monaghan
New Bern
Simpson trial exposes price of justice in US system
A critique of the O J Simpson case argues media hype inflates a trial of the century while real justice remains costly and uneven. It contends celebrity access to top defense, media profits from crime, and biased juries threaten fair outcomes for victims, predicting acquittal or hung jury.
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Simpson
O.J
Los Angeles
Pamlico County Commission Focuses On Local Reality
Letter-writer argues Pamlico County commissioners acted in the public interest, not under real estate pressure, opposing CRAC changes. Cites opposition from farmers foresters and NC Forest Service, contending new rules could raise costs and hurt water quality, farming, fishing, and the local economy.
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Sun Journal
Pamlico County
Grace Evans
Coastal Resources Advisory Council
CRAC
N.C. Forest Service
River Bend faces push for silent government in town
A group of former River Bend officials circulates a message urging residents to accept a return to sit down and shut up governance. They condemn open discussion and align with two incumbents who tried to remove civic input, warning such silence enables corruption and incompetence in Craven County, North Carolina.
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River Bend
Orga
Craven County
North Carolina
Getting paid doesn't take heart out of firefighting Editor
Letter responds to Sun Journal article Volunteers fuel fire rescue Feb 5, defending career firefighters and EMS personnel who train about 100 hours yearly and work 24 7 365 while often holding second jobs. Argues caring motive remains, despite pay.
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Sun Journal
Stanley Kite
Craven Emergency Management Services
Nel
Kite
Forum seeks signed letters with return address and phone
Submissions to Forum Sun Journal must include author name address and telephone for editor reference. Letters under 300 words preferred. longer pieces may be abridged. Fax submissions accepted. Include headline and date when commenting on a specific article. Anonymous or open letters to third parties will not be published.
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Sun Journal
P.O
New Bern
N.C
Experts wrong on illegitimacy and welfare
Walter Williams argues that experts and academics misread the causes of black illegitimacy and poverty. He cites Moynihan, Cherlin, and Bennett to claim welfare policy fuels, rather than cures, social decay, urging a purge of government funded poverty research from policy making.
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Harlem
Now
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Bayard Austin
Floyd McKissick
COPE
Moynihan
America
Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Lee Rainwater
Williams Yancey
William Bennett
American Enterprise
Congress
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Henry W. Foster Jr
Washington
Nashville
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Pamlico Board
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River Bend Council
Andrew Cherlin
Johns Hopkins
Walter Williams
George Mason University
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