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This Week's Opinions:
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The People Speak
Read this week's Letters to the Editor. Letters can be e-mailed to gilmermirror@gmail.com, mailed to The Gilmer Mirror, P.O. Box 250, Gilmer, TX 75644, or faxed to (903) 843-5123. The deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. prior to the following Wednesday's publication, and Thursday at 5 p.m. prior to the following Saturday's publication. ....
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Crazy enough to avoid the death penalty?
My life won’t change if the state of Texas executes Scott Panetti, who shot his in-laws dead in 1992, a man whose lawyers now claim is insane and therefore shouldn't be executed. Besides a brief blip in my local newspaper that Panetti was tried then fried, I wouldn’t even notice if and when he’s gone. ...
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Sideglances in The Mirror
TEXAS HAS had problems with public school finance since who laid the chunk. ...
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Making sense of the Virginia Tech massacre
WHEN I was a boy, like most children, I was into everything and everybody’s business. ...
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All those Pleasant Hills
COULD PLEASANT HILL be the most popular name for towns in East Texas? ...
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Midnight requisitions at NORAD
In 1969, I was a year out of East Texas and a year into the Air Force. I worked at NORAD headquarters inside Cheyenne Mountain, just south of Colorado Springs. ...
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Speak for yourself, Robert
Likely in high school, or perhaps in college, everyone learns that Miles Standish, company man and soldier in Plymouth Colony, asked John Alden to present his suit for the favor of the fair Pricilla, who ended up with Alden, not Standish. ...
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Retreat from barbarism
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart is an important step away from the cruel practice of abortion. ...
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