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Letter to the Editor: Restaurant Guide offends with backhanded compliment · Apr 17
I decided to contact The Echo because of a rather offensive comment in the graduation edition.
Letter to the editor: Echo cartoon creates local controversy · Oct 3
The recent publication of Jason Promo’s Sept. 27 comic illustrating several characters dressed in hoods, a tree with a noose, and one character saying to the other, “Honey, this is the tree where we met” horrified me.
Letter: Animals that reach PETA 'often beyond hope' · Apr 18
I would like to clarify statements made in “Pet Stores, Puppy Mills Cause Bad Behavior” (7 April). The animals who come through PETA’s doors — not counting the thousands we sterilize at our low-cost clinics and return to their guardians — are only a tiny fraction of the estimated 6 to 8 million homeless dogs and cats who enter shelters every year.

Egyptian workers seek social equality
By Clement Daly · Feb 1
One year after the outbreak of the Egyptian Revolution, millions of workers and students took to the streets throughout Egypt to protest the dictatorship of the U.S.-backed military junta, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and demand the ouster of its head, General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
Government falsehoods camouflage megabanks mistakes in Wall Street
By James Tatum · Feb 1
In the parlance of a classic “who done it” in the case of the crash on Wall Street, I’d like to think the federal government was at fault in that it aided and abetted the megabanks and investment firms as they committed the actual robbery.
Super Bowl Sunday
By Jimmy King · Feb 1
You cannot look at the modern era of football without first acknowledging the prowess and dominance of the New England Patriots.

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