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Canceling
I have been planning to cancel my subscription to the Times-Call for months and don't know why I held on so long — maybe because growing up here all these years the paper was so much a part of our family and our connection to our community. After several decades, I no longer feel the Times-Call represents me and other conservatives. The constant Cartoonist's Takes, the hateful articles that show the Times-Call does not represent a balanced newspaper. And to make my point perfectly clear, (on) the Thursday, May 29, front page of the Times-Call, (ther) most important story was (the) plan to keep Warren Hearn's late-term abortion clinic open with new owners and location. This front page article is the reason so many are dropping their subscription to a paper that has lost their moral compass.
Trump Complaint Line
To the person who's calling the TC Line the Trump Complaint Line: That might be true, but he gives us so much to work with.
SVVSD superintendent
The new school superintendent looks to be a very impressive leader. It is this type of person that we need for the next mayor of Longmont. There are too many left-wing ideologues on the present council who make poor decisions for the city.
Boulder cows
I see Boulder is going to use cows for wildfire mitigation in order to eat the grasslands. I'm confused, because I thought cows caused climate change.
CEO compensation
In (Sunday's) Time-Call we learned that CEOs being compensated with tens of millions of dollars a year received an average increase of 10% while employees received an increase of 1%. That is why we have to cut services for health and research and food for poor children — to give the upper 1% a few trillion dollars.
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