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0 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? subscribe | newsletter | deals Home News Latest Stories Two-alarm fire damages Ashland home ACCESS drive fights hunger, creates hope Miller write-in campaign lands Ashland Parks and Rec seat Prayers for snow in year's second Mount Ashland blessing Kiwanis club invites fifth-graders to write flag essay Education Kiwanis club invites fifth-graders to write flag essay AHS club helps fill Ashland Emergency Food Bank Ashland High School: Students get schooled in interviewing The future of SOU's McNeal Pavilion doesn't include a pool AuCoin named to SOU Board of Trustees Environment Don't like weather where you are? 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Cheese more bearable Go Ask Alice: Black Friday shopping? It never dawned on me Aging Happens Inner Peace Column Inner Peace Blog Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » Obituaries Photos Videos Blogs NEWS NOW Two-alarm fire damages Ashland home ... ACCESS drive fights hunger, creates hope ... Ashland Calendar ... Two-alarm fire damages Ashland home ... ACCESS drive fights hunger, creates hope ... Ashland Calendar ... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the Editor, Nov. 11 DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Nov. 11, 2014 @ 12:01 am Posted Nov. 11, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Social News Why hide it? One more musing about our right to know and Measure 92: Imagine yourself as a food producer, who feels good and proud of the special corn or soybeans you raised. You would want to let everyone know the special quality of your food product. Right there on the front of the package in big bold letters: “This cereal is 100 percent GMO-grown corn and we are proud of it.” So, why would you send $20.8 million into one little state (like Oregon) to make sure your special gift is not even seen in the small print on the back of the package. Seems like Monsanto is ashamed of their special GMO food, and wants desperately to hide it. If you eat food and care about your body and your kids, you might want to learn why they are so dramatically not proud of their GMO food. William Kauth, Ashland Take Herb's advice I share Herb Rothschild's concern about the TransPacific Partnership, as well as his bewilderment at the actions of Sen. Ron Wyden. Just as we seem unable to learn from our futile and incessant war-making in foreign lands, we also seem blind to the damage that NAFTA has inflicted on our economy. How can our leaders sign on to agreements that destroy communities' rights to manage their own environments and override our own laws in the name of corporate profit? How can they ignore the effects of so-called "free trade" that has driven our local industries out of business, crippled the job market for our working class and created a dependence on foreign products that undercut our domestic goods? The only thing such "partnership" does is make us all a party to increased corporate plunder at the expense of everyone as well as the expense of our fragile planet. Please, take Herb's advice! Let Ron Wyden know this is unacceptable! Avram Chetron, Ashland Enough to make one cynical Soon after the mid-term elections, Republicans started complaining about the voters' wishes falling on deaf ears. Texas Sen. John Cornyn said in a Yahoo telephone interview, "The president, instead of being contrite or saying in effect to America, 'I hear you,' as a result of the referendum on his policies that drove this last election, seems unmoved and even defiant." You think the American people have short memories, electing all those Republicans who helped launch two wars and a recession? How about these GOP leaders who seem to forget how "unmoved and even defiant" they were when the voters gave President Obama a mandate in 2008 and 2012? It's enough to make one pretty cynical about politics. Jim Flint, Ashland Help save the earth Older children, teenagers and young adults, your help is needed to save the earth. Many people are working to reduce fossil fuels and switching to green energy. To do this effectively worldwide, Congress needs to pass a carbon tax with dividend (the money raised by the tax goes to families). Here's where we need your help. Do you want to try to live on a hot earth, with big storms, with many people washed out of their homes, with people starving because there's not enough water for growing food? (12 million people are born every month.) This is the world you will face if enough good people continue to do nothing. There's a gentleman, our Congressman Greg Walden, who is thinking about the carbon tax issue. He may want to hear how you, the maybe-surviving generation, feel. Tell him what kind of world you want to grow up in, and live out your life in. Here are three addresses for reaching Congressman Greg Walden: 1) www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write 2)14 N. Central Ave., No. 112, Medford, OR 97501; 541-776-4646 3) 2182 Rayburn House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515; 202-225-6730 Carola Lacy, Ashland DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Nov. 11, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with DailyTidings.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Alerts Email alerts RSS feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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