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Bedford Letters

Markets not a panacea

To the Editor: In “Dispute on Climate Change…,” the author offered the stark assessment that government mandates to reduce carbon emissions are tantamount to a national takeover of the economy. There is scant evidence for such fears in the annals of American history; moreover, they ignore ...

Where does compassion for innocent Syrian civilians begin and end?

To the Editor: After viewing pictures of the Syrian gas attack victims, President Trump demonstrated his outrage by bombing the airfield where the attack had originated. It was a measured, proportional response to an atrocity committed against innocent civilians. I wonder, however, why he ...

Dispute on climate change goes well beyond just the climate

To the Editor: Although there are good reasons to be skeptical of many climate change claims, the real conflict concerns the implication that climate change then requires full political control of the environment, the economy and the discourse by climate change advocates. A historical record ...

Local woman to run in Boston Marathon for Mass. hospital team

Bedford resident Charla Stevens will run in the 121st Boston Marathon on April 17 in support of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Emergency Response Marathon Team. Charla will join an estimated 30,000 runners along the 26.2 mile course that spans from Hopkinton to Boston’s Boylston Street. ...