Letters of note
¦ Sunshine hero
(FW, March 10)
Roger:
Relentless, challenging, sometimes off but mostly right on, Lee Melsek was/is very much missed in the world of investigative reporting. He is a true original. Some of the cases our office has prosecuted over the years have come from his work. Thank you for your article on Lee. Full Story
A bright, shining green lie
A year ago, President Barack Obama peered into our economic future and saw foam sealant and weatherstripping.
In the midst of a punishing recession, President Obama would wield that incomparable jobs-creating tool, the caulk gun. What the Works Progress Administration was to Franklin Roosevelt, the government-funded weatherization of homes would be to President Obama. Full Story
Obama skewers insurers
Finally!
President Barack Obama has at last zeroed in on the greedy health-insurance companies and their opposition to health reform.
It’s about time.
The president also seems to have awakened the public to the fact that congressional Republicans have mounted a solid wall of resistance to serious efforts at improving the American health-care system. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
. On March 18, 1937,
nearly 300 students in the east Texas town of New London are killed when a natural gas explosion levels their school. The school sat in the middle of a large oil and natural gas field dominated by 10,000 oil derricks. Full Story
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