Letters
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AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile beneficial to consumers
Editor:
AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile has the capacity to benefit consumers across Mississippi. This combination can assist consumers in many ways, from improving service quality and network capacity, fostering innovation, and increasing competitive pressure to ensuring that consumers throughout our country and across Mississippi have broader access to mobile broadband. -
America’s Economic Quagmire
Editor:
About a week ago, Fed Chairman Bernanke held a press conference — very rare and unusual for him. His concerns at that moment were the congressional deadlock on the debt limit, the end of the second Quantitative Easing (QE-II) and the slowness of the economic recovery from the Deep Recession. A reporter asked him why he thought the recovery has not been better — and surprisingly (to me) he said he didn’t know. -
Resident upset at natural gas prices
Editor:
The price of natural gas charged to Picayune residents has concerned me for years. Three years ago I brought the subject up at a city council meeting and wrote two letters to the Editor of our Picayune Item. I’m still at a loss as to why we are paying more per thousand cubic feet than other communities and towns. -
Obama's re-election chances questionable
Editor:
I recently read a column whose author said President Obama is certain to be re-elected because of the death of Osama bin Laden. He cited historical instances whose president’s actions and policies were totally unlike those of this president and his administration. Any president, whether Democrat or Republican, having pertinent intelligence, would have made this decision. -
National Goodwill week
Your mayors and counties are declaring this week National Goodwill Week. We ask you to join in.
When you give to Goodwill, we sell your donations and use the revenues to fund employment related services such as job training and career advancement programs, and other support services that benefit people her in southern Mississippi. People who are homeless, those who lack education or work experience, persons with a disability, as well as other job seekers, benefit from your donation.
We offered approximately 10,297 services to people in south Mississippi in 2010. -
Legitimate government functions and taxation
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
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Albritton’s face should be red
Editor:
Okay, let me get this straight....
(1) Sid Albritton is on the State Senate Redistricting committee. -
Why are government CAFRs routinely covered up by the political establishment?
In 1946, a private group in Chicago called the Government Financial Officers Association established CAFR as a complete accounting record for local governments. In 1978, CAFR was made mandatory for all local government by the Federal government. Publicly traded corporations are required, by law, to produce an Annual Financial Report (AFR) each year and to provide the information to all share-holders. A corporation withholding AFR information from share-holders would soon find itself in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. So, why are government CAFRs routinely covered up by the political establishment? A CAFR is produced by every state and local government but no municipal, county, state or national politician refers to it or mentions it in budget debates and news media never address the issue.
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A concise rebuttal
A concise rebuttal to the Cokie and Steven V. Roberts column in the March 24th Item:
After praising NPR to the hilt and attempting to justify government funding, they state “NPR is able to do that because its business model works.” -
Entire 'Complex' costs need to be scrutinized
Editor:
I have noticed that the editorial column (in the Item) is nothing more than a ‘copy editorial’ from another newspaper. It has been some time since locals articles, I only recall one, has been printed. Most people who read the Item have already read other newspapers and always watch the news so these editorials are old news to us. - More Letters Headlines
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