DISQUS

Rather than focusing on the letters being too long the owners of the Telegraph could be improving the paper by removing the liberal and left wing writers on the editorial staff. The Nashua Telegraph has evolved from being a moderate paper to being a left wing rag. Some of the stories and writers are excellant on some of the local storys but I gag on the papers slanted extreme viewpoints. If another newspaper springs up in the Nashua area with a moderate or conservative viewpoint I will drop the paper in a heartbeat.

The Editorial staff of the Telegraph has a liberal leftist bent that colors all of the stories that run in the paper. Who will monitor the staff of the paper to insure they are not slanting coverage of the candidates? Case in point: For almost two weeks now it has been in the news that John Edwards has been having an affair on his wife who has cancer. The story first broke while Obama was on his so called earth shattering worldwide tour. To protect Obama and the democratic party the Telegraph has refused to cover this. This is front page news. Rest assured if Edwards had been a republican the paper would have tarred and feathered him and made this an ongoing major story. Liberals are just like alchoholics-they both deny they have a problem. The bottom line in all this-yes it is ok to run editorials from both the candidates and their followers. The paper should expand the letters they print from three a day to at least fifteen. |(Like the union leader does!)

There is always a remote possiblitiy that when a letter is published in the paper that someone else may have the same name and be located in the same town. It does not happen every day and is nothing to lose sleep about. Lets put the current situation in prespective|: A taxpayer fed up with the ongoing waste in the education establishment writes a letter expressing his outrage over his hard earned tax dollars being poured in a black hole. By chance another guy with the same name and living in the same town tries to capitalize on the education monopoly and applys for a job with the school district. Someone at the district makes the connection and accuses the applicant of being the same simpleton who had the nerve to challenge the status quo. Lets keep the mourning down at this crime against humanity. All the apllicant had to do is explain its not him and those are not his views. There is no need to place anything more than a name and town on a published letter. Every thinking taxpayer should be angry over the monopoly held by public education. The quality continues to stagnate and cost continues to go up. The parents of New |Hampshire should be free to decide how and where their children are educated. It is not right to force parents who prefer to send their child to a private or Christian school to have to pay for the public system as well. The irony is many small private schools are cheaper than the average cost of educationing a child in the governent schools and do a better job. Its kind of funny....we test lawyers, doctors, airline pilots. To get a licence we need a written and a driving test. However the bureaucrats in the SAU.sare opposed to standardized testing as measure of progress. They are determined to avoid any type of fixed measurement and comparision between what works and what does not. The free market will solve many of our educational woes. Too bad Wal Mart wont get into the teaching racket!

Amazing how we continue to mistake the criminals for the victims. It seems no New Hampshire politician has the courage to take on big education. Forget about big oil and the banking mess. The biggest financial fiasco is the public education system. The teachers unions are liberal in nature and do not want to be held accountable to any fixed academic or moral standards. The national teacher unions keep taking social positions that are way out of step with most Americans values. We need to put the childrens interest ahead of big education by empowering parents to flee public schools if they so desire. Once we have that option all of this nonsense about teachers being undervalued and underpaid will disappear. Why not advertise all of the current teacher positions and see how many applicants would love to come and be "abused":and "underpaid"here in Nashua? There are hundreds of school districts around the country that pay less and offer less that what Nashua offers. Plus in almost every other state the tax burden is higher. Its time for the taxpayers to unionize. The only reason all of you have jobs in public education is because we have been forced to pay for this broken down bureaucratic system. Some parents would have taken their business elsewhere a long time ago if they had not been forced to pay for the public school system. Maybe we should teach capitalism to our elected officials........

Whether you have 125 or 500 advisors in the network makes no difference. The Telegraph is too liberal and extreme in its viewpoints. The editorial staff needs to be fair and balanced. Only when new blood is installed at the top will there be any meaningful change.

The Telegraph needs to expand its soul searching to see if the views of the editors and staff are fair and balanced. As it stands the views expressed by the paper are to the far left. The headlines that run in the paper show your liberal bias. The news you refuse to run or ignore is an attempt by the paper to censor viewpoints that do not agree with your own. One of the problems with the Telegraph and most of the mainsteam media is that liberals do not see themselves as liberals. Most of the Telegraphs views on same sex marriages, transgender freaks, abortion, taxes and spending would have been correctly viewed as extreme by the editors of the paper just a generation ago. I believe part of the reason the paper has stayed in business is that most residents in the Nashua area want to see what is happening locally. It is not that the paper reflects the values of most of the community. Their is a vaccum in New Hampshire of news outlets that are balanced. In the good old days we had William Loeb,Al Rock and broadcasters like Mr Bronstein on WOTW around to hold your feet to the fire. Alas now their is little to no accountabiltiy in the printed and local talk media. Recently you ran a story about one of Hillarys aides being arrested the night before the primary after driving drunk thru Nashua and speeding. Any ordinary citizen might have had the news flashed the next day. Someone made the decision to censor the news and withhold the story to protect the democrats for a few days. This should have been a front page story that ran right away regardless of the impact on the primary. The Telegraph carrys water for the democrats constantly and trys to mold the public against policys it does not like. Yes there are some of us who can see the fire thru the smoke.