Patti Welch
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Letter to the editor: ‘Love Wins’ is a sentiment that can save our nation
Our nation is broken. Now is the time to join our hands and hearts together, as friends, neighbors and strangers, faith communities, and others
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Letter to the editor: Warning! Dangerous Road! Exit Now! Take Alternate Route!
Standing together as the people, we have the power to change our route. Call on Congress to get back to work. Enact laws that are just and fair…
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Letter to the editor: It’s time, again, for us to color outside the lines
‘With chaos and divisiveness increasingly swirling around our nation, and in the initial devastating sense of powerlessness with the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” I know it…
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Letter to the editor: Contrary to what Trump says, we exist
Imagine my surprise at learning (and my chagrin at not knowing this sooner) that, almost from Inauguration Day, 2025, I no longer officially exist in the eyes of…
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Letter to the editor: Does the U.S. have ‘liberty and justice for all?’
Are you a U.S. citizen? You are part of the all. Are you an immigrant? Are you a migrant worker? You are part of the all. Are you…
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Letter to the editor: Let hope overtake terror in effort to preserve nation
A sign at the Bristol May Day protest rally read, “I’m Terrified!” echoing the feelings of most, if not all of us gathered along West Street and around…
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Letter to the editor: Let’s collectively say ‘no’ to the current emperor
On the Christian calendar this week is Holy Week and on Friday, Good Friday, we remember the crucifixion of Jesus. On that Friday in 33 CE, the Governor…
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Letter to the editor: Hands off the U.S. Postal Service
I am deeply concerned with unconstitutional movement by the Trump Administration to privatize what is a mandated Power of the U.S. Congress!
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Letter to the editor: Faith communities, work together to speak out
In a previous Letter to the Editor I quoted from the Old Testament Book of Daniel. “Daniel” becomes, as it progresses, a series of visions. The visions are…
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Letter to the editor: We must ‘resist and act’ in defense of democracy
In the Book of the prophet Daniel there is a story: The King of Babylon, having made a gold statue of himself, set it up in a valley…