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0 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? e-edition | subscribe | newsletter | deals Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » NEWS NOW Dispatch recording reveals details about Medford police pursuit that ended in fire and one death ... Medford police officer crashes while providing backup ... Gymnastics coach Bettman faces 25 years for recording girls undressing ... Dispatch recording reveals details about Medford police pursuit that ended in fire and one death ... Medford police officer crashes while providing backup ... Gymnastics coach Bettman faces 25 years for recording girls undressing ... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the Editor, Aug. 10 Comment MailTribune.com Writer Posted Aug. 10, 2016 at 12:01 AM Posted Aug. 10, 2016 at 12:01 AM » Social News Heat waves nothing new The July 30, 2016 Mail Tribune had a headline: "Hot Wave May Reach Medford." The article stated "Medford may feel the hot wave now sweeping the east and central states next week." I started thinking, maybe that 97 percent of climate scientists who claim global warming and climate change as a scientific fact are correct. Why, just last week, according to Fox News, there was a " 'Heat Dome' hitting US, bringing surging temperatures." Recently it's been hot, so I looked at the weather information on the back page of the Mail Tribune and noted that the "record" temperatures were considerably higher than the "normal" and "actual" temperatures. This confused me. If the country was in a "heat dome" and the Mail Tribune had an article about the "Hot Wave" why weren't record temperatures being set? I did a little research and found that the record temp for July 21 was 115 in 1946 and July 27 was 108 in 1946. This also confused me. Then I noticed that the "Hot Wave" article was in the "100 Years Ago" column, dated July 29, 1916. It seems that heat waves have occurred in the past and probably in the future. Jeff Fox Medford US loses trade ruling At his town hall in Eagle Point on Aug. 1, Sen. Ron Wyden again defended the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the grounds that it promises to be a commercial boon for Oregon businesses, just as he did last year in Medford. Absent from his presentation this year, however, was the argument that the U.S. had never lost a challenge to American state or federal laws alleged by a trading partner to undermine their ability to make a profit in America. And for good reason: in 2015, Americans lost their legal right to know the country of origin of their beef and pork. An investor-state dispute resolution panel of the WTO decided that America's COOL legislation (Country of Origin Labelling) was a "technical barrier to trade." This, after President Obama had stated that, "No trade agreement is going to force us to change our laws." Except, of course, when foreigners on a WTO panel decide that an American law constitutes a technical barrier to trade. The TPP far surpasses NAFTA in compromising America's sovereignty. It's a bad idea for America and for Oregon. Wyden errs in supporting it. Catherine Keys Medford Trump the narcissist Donald Trump is apparently a textbook varcissist. It is all about him. Additionally, his primary motivation in life is to win and dominate. His word salad responses to interviewers, inability to overlook even the slightest snub, abusive bullying, love of the spotlight, messianic assertions of being our country's savior and projection of blame on others fit with that personality. Narcissists can also be effective charmers, cutting a larger-than-life path. Many that seek power and status (politics) have aspects of this trait, which can in less extreme people be a plus. But in Trump it equals an unstable individual that should never occupy public office. 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