Thursday, December 6, 2012
The following is a letter to the editor.
The following is a letter to the editor. On behalf of the Downtown Initiative Committee of the Waltham West Suburban Chamber of Commerce, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents of Waltham and neighboring communities for their support of local, independent small businesses on Small Business Saturday, November 24th. Shop Small Saturday, the day after Black Friday each year, was created to remind people that local small businesses are the foundation of a community. Many small business owners support local charities and pay local taxes. Where we shop, where we eat and where we spend our cultural and recreation time, makes our community home. Our one-of-a-kind businesses, museums and historic mansion homes are an integral…
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The following is a letter to the editor from a Waltham resident.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The following is a letter to the editor from a Waltham resident. From Massachusetts to California, and Oregon to Ohio, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly on Nov. 6 for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling and declare that only human beings – not corporations – are entitled to constitutional rights and that money is not speech and campaign spending can be regulated. Here in Massachusetts, voters in 120 towns (about 1/3 the population of the state) voted on the non-binding resolution that instructed their state senator or state representative to support a constitutional amendment affirming that 1) corporations are not …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The following is a letter to the editor from a Waltham resident.
The following is a letter to the editor from a Waltham resident: Now I've been tired of money's influence in politics for years. Then in 2010, the US Supreme Court's decision that the non-profit corporation Citizens United's First Amendment rights to free speech allowed unlimited independent political donations to campaigns. Now I'm sick and tired. Then there's the corporatocracy we have in the US where the unbridled wealth of many major corporations are writing the laws of our nation and pulling the puppet strings of many of our elected officials. This is another sign of money's influence in politics that started back in the 19th century and has only gotten worse. Question 4 on the upcoming November 6th ballot is a non-binding referendum …
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
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