Reader: After years of good intentions with little results, it is encouraging to see that the department recognizes that it works to everyone’s benefit to build trust between them and the Spanish-speaking community.
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Opinion: The real issue with recidivism rate is the absence of statistics
After 25 years, an ever increasing budget, and an expanding staff that numbers in the hundreds, Hodgson should have been measuring the re-offending rate of those incarcerated in his facilities.
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Opinion: English Language Learners deserve inclusion, more teachers educated with latest methods
It’s time to stop using methods and ideas from the 20th century and join the 21st. It’s time to start adopting research-based language acquisition methods and face the new realities. New Bedford deserves it.
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Letters to the Light: Not everyone sees eye-to-eye on migrant story, immigration
Reader: They don’t belong here, have no rights and need to be on a plane back to Mexico or Venezuela. What part of illegal don’t you understand?
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Essay: Wampanoag Experience Project highlights Native history in the South Coast area
Wampanoags still love this land, its woods, its rivers, its bays. We love to fish in her waters and to walk in her woods, through the swamps. We still honor the bounty of the land, turkey and deer, medicine plants and wild blueberries.
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Letters to The Light: No room for Bernier’s bitterness
“This is no time to let hurt feelings stand in the way of long overdue changes needed in our county corrections system. There is just too much at stake.”
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Letters to The Light: Less drill to the test and more teach to the moment!
Readers voice their opinion on raising MCAS standards and delays in clean energy
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Opinion: Drone killing of Al Qaeda leader vindicates Biden’s ‘over the horizon’ strategy
The fact that the CIA was able to track down a wanted terrorist in a remote land and kill him from afar is testimony to its remarkable ability to maintain and project its counter-terrorism capabilities.
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Opinion: Civil injustice, or how not to keep a republic
In all, the justices cast aside precedent, conflict of interest and all other principles of judicial restraint in a scheme to align the law with their political and religious preferences.
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Letters to The Light: An enlightening Chat and more reaction to fishing investigation
Reader: “Highlighting the fact that votes are being cast based upon the like or dislike of a candidate’s demeanor … was eye opening.”
