In your August 28 feature “The Granite State Gang”, you wrote: “The [Free State Project] movement was created in abstract in 2001, when its founding father, SUNY-Buffalo political-science professor Jason Sorens, published an article in the Libertarian Enterprise titled ‘Announcement: The Free State Project.’ The declaration inspired frustrated liberty enthusiasts across the country to begin selecting a suitable colony for Sorens’s vision (with his blessing, though he has yet to relocate).”
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?
Richard Smith
Boston
Small house, big ideas
I am a faithful reader of the Phoenix and was thrilled to see Greg Cook’s August 21 piece on the Zimmerman House. My wife and I are among a group of dedicated volunteer docents who give tours of the home, which we feel is the jewel in the crown of the Currier Museum’s very excellent collection.
Cook did an excellent job of capturing what the home is all about. Sometimes I call my tour the visit to the small house full of big ideas, because I think that Wright incorporated a number of very modern ideas (open interiors, borrowing and sharing of spaces, multi-functional spaces, radiant floor heat, elimination of clutter through built-in furniture and lighting, and, of course, the orientation towards nature) that are coming back in vogue today.
Jim Townsend
Manchester, New Hampshire
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- Make no mistake
Please note that David S. Bernstein's February 27 story "Capuano Cornered?" contains some inaccuracies.
- Schools of thought
While the Phoenix is right on wasteful spending related to school busing, it is wrong on residency.
- Black power
Brooding about whether Barack Obama would have become president if he had been a more “traditionally black candidate,” i.e., a descendant of slaves, is a self-indulgence that trivializes the enormity of what has occurred.
- Award-worthy
The amount of research that Jason Notte conducted for his extensive article on the surge in suicides in the military is worthy of a Pulitzer Prize.
- Political sucker punches
David S. Bernstein’s story about Governor Deval Patrick is an example of going for the easy political jab rather than providing thoughtful analysis.
- Trigger unhappy
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
- Law students luckier than the rest
While I know it has been extremely difficult for recent law-school graduates to find employment this year, the data in Kara Baskin’s story was not accurate. Ninety-two percent of our class of 2008 was employed within six months after graduation.
- The tax man speaketh
I agree that we need to take a long, hard look at what we value in our state — healthy air and water, good schools, roads, safety — and figure out how we’re going to pay for it!
- Shoddy work or just sensational?
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.
- Right wing done wrong
As someone who is Republican by party and conservative by inclination, I must take issue with your editorial “Right Wing Terror” on several fronts.
- System failure
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.
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