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Rotten Apple

Letters to the Boston editor, May 28, 2010
I appreciated your timely article on Apple’s evolution from underdog to corporate bully.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 26, 2010

Where the wind blows

Letters to the Boston editor, May 21, 2010
Thank you for the first nonpartisan, fact-based article I have read regarding the Cape Cod wind-farm project.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 19, 2010

Letters to the Boston editor, April 23, 2010
While I understand, appreciate, and respect the First Amendment and our right to speak freely, in the case of bullying, Harvey Silverglate makes a dangerous assumption that “civilized people, even teenagers can intuit the difference between protected speech and criminal harassment.”
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | April 21, 2010

Hope against Hollywood

Letters to the Boston editor, March 26, 2010
Mr. Keough’s “Is There Any ‘Hope’ in Hollywood” article makes my own point. Precious , The Blind Side , and The Princess and the Frog were strategically released to detract from the positive image of President Barack Obama.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | March 24, 2010

Food Fight

Letters to the Boston editor, March 19, 2010
I don't think food critic Robert Nadeau knows very much about fine dining and what it means to cook good seafood.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | March 17, 2010

Signs of the Times

Letters to the Boston editor, March 5, 2010
Regarding "A Walk on the Wild Side" , about the "Boston Combat Zone: 1969–1978" exhibit at the Howard Yezerski Gallery: the complete Naked i sign is owned by neon collector Dave Waller, who lent the Yezerski one section of it.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | March 03, 2010

War over piece

Letters to the Boston editor, February 26, 2010
The recent article by Chris Faraone about the StreetSafe Initiative of the Boston Foundation includes a number of significant errors of fact and characterization.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | February 24, 2010

Clearing the air

Letters to the Boston editor, February 12, 2010
Adam Reilly’s analysis of right-wing talk radio’s support of Scott Brown was nearly perfect.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | February 10, 2010

Acid flashback

Letters to the Boston editor, February 5, 2010
Don Lattin may be right that the “most important” experiments of Timothy Leary’s Psilocybin Project took place at 64 Homer Street, in Newton.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | February 03, 2010

Revenge of the Idiots

Letters to the Boston editor, January 29, 2010
To my fellow Massachusetts Democrats: please don’t blame Martha Coakley for this shocking defeat.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | January 27, 2010

Dane Cook does suck

Letters to the Boston editor, January 22, 2010
In "Dane Cook Is Funny," the author says that to say “ 'Dane Cook is not funny' is an extreme oversimplification.” Not really.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | January 20, 2010

Building block

Letters to the Boston editor, January 15, 2010
Your editorial, “Menino’s Promise,” about Mayor Menino’s inauguration, stated: “He must shelve his reservations about becoming more involved in private development.”
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | January 13, 2010

Good weed

Letters to the Boston editor, December 25, 2009
Thank you for the article “A Weed Grows in Boston.”
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | December 23, 2009

Over the coals

Letters to the Boston editor, December 4, 2009
Not so fast, Mike!
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | December 02, 2009

Sound words

Letters to the Boston editor, November 13, 2009
I appreciate the positive review Jeffrey Gantz gave to Bad Boy Made Good , the documentary film I produced, which was shown this week at the MFA.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | November 11, 2009

Glenn Beck's Mormon ties

Letters to the Boston editor, October 30, 2009
Thank you for carefully illustrating the intellectual dishonesty of the right wing’s number-one glory boy.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 28, 2009

Calling us to account

Letters to the Boston editor, October 16, 2009
To use the word “accountable” in conjunction with Mayor Thomas M. Menino is laughable in the extreme, because if there’s one thing that this guy is not, it’s accountable.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 14, 2009

Art dodgers

Letters to the Boston editor, October 9, 2009
David S. Bernstein points out some key facts about who voted for Michael Flaherty in “Can Flaherty Woo Yoon?”, but he neglects to mention that, if Sam Yoon had won, he would need the base that voted for Flaherty, and he would also need to woo Flaherty’s support to win the mayor’s seat.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 07, 2009

Injustice department

Letters to the Boston editor, October 2, 2009
Thank you Harvey Silverglate for shining a light on our criminal-injustice system with your new book Three Felonies a Day. And thank you Peter Kadzis for a great interview.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 30, 2009

Beating HPV

Letters to the Boston editor, September 25, 2009
When I was an undergrad student in Boston, I was diagnosed with HPV and went through all the same medical procedures Lisa Spinelli experienced, and the LEEP procedure, too.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 23, 2009

$@&! the word police

Letters to the Boston editor, September 18, 2009
I like to think of myself as a progressive and far from a prude.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 16, 2009

Freeloading free stater?

Letters to the Boston editor, September 11, 2009
Has anyone else found it ironic that Dr. Sorens works for a state-supported university, and that presumably his salary and benefits, such as health insurance, are paid for by the taxpayers of New York?
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 09, 2009

Lunch-bucket elite

Letters to the Boston editor, September 4, 2009
Your description of senatorial hopeful Stephen Lynch as a “lunch-bucket pol” is certainly a departure from the accuracy in political portrayal and substance I have grown accustomed to in the Phoenix.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 02, 2009

Which way the wind blows

Letters to the Boston editor, August 28, 2009
The venting of wind-power skeptics in the Phoenix piece “ Why wind power blows ” really misses a major point: global warming. When we finally get down to grappling with dangerous climate disruption, all forms of non-carbon emitting power will rise.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | August 26, 2009

Flaherty's fix for the BRA

Letters to the Boston editor, August 21, 2009
Your recent article regarding the upcoming preliminary election for mayor of Boston, inaccurately portrays my proposal for the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), the city’s planning and development agency.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | August 19, 2009

Power puffs

Letters to the Boston editor, July 24, 2009
Regarding “ Weed Picking Up Speed ”: if health outcomes determined drug laws instead of cultural norms, marijuana would be legal. Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | July 22, 2009

Free speechifying

Letters to the Boston editor, July 17, 2009
How can Dan Kennedy pick a list of people who trample freedom of expression without listing the mayor of Boston?
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | July 15, 2009

System failure

Letters to the Boston editor, July 3, 2009
In the “Talking Politics” column “Mass betrayal,” you attribute our state’s long, sad history of corrupt politicians to the culture of the State House. You’re probably right.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | July 01, 2009

Right wing done wrong

Letters to the Boston editor, June 19, 2009
As someone who is Republican by party and conservative by inclination, I must take issue with your editorial “Right Wing Terror” on several fronts.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | June 17, 2009

Shoddy work or just sensational?

Letters to the Boston editor, June 5, 2009
Unless you are transgender yourself — and given the content and tone of your article I would venture a guess that you are not — you have no right or privilege to discuss issues regarding disclosure of trans status. Much less do you have the right to discuss how disclosure, or lack thereof, may relate to issues of shame or truthful disclosure.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | June 03, 2009