Letters - Page 59

The Concord Bridge welcomes letters from readers, which can be submitted via this simple form.

Letter: Leaf blowers and property rights

April 13, 2023
Article 37 will steer us back in the direction of respecting everyone’s property rights (noise and pollution). The idea that it will increase the cost of landscape maintenance ignores the costs you

Letter: It’s time to abolish open Town Meeting

April 13, 2023
In the Jim Crow South, many methods were used to disenfranchise voters. Poll taxes, literacy tests, etc. served to preserve minority rule. Here in Concord we have an equally effective way to

Letter: ‘It wasn’t long ago that we all used rakes’

April 13, 2023
Gas-powered leaf blowers (GPLB) are spectacularly bad for us, both locally and globally. Concord should phase them out. With their inefficient engines, GPLB generate an outsized amount of air pollution—greenhouse gasses, carcinogens,

Letter: A solution in search of a problem

April 6, 2023
The Public Ceremonies and Celebrations Committee has new criteria to determine what groups can march in the Patriots Day parade. Where did these criteria come from? They disallow suitable civic groups and
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