Letters to the Editor Archives - INDY Week https://indyweek.com/category/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:53:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://indyweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-2023-INDYlogo-whiteonblack-sml-sq-32x32.png Letters to the Editor Archives - INDY Week https://indyweek.com/category/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/ 32 32 214226721 Backtalk: “Just send your kids to public schools.” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-just-send-your-kids-to-public-schools/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=288368 And other things our readers told us.]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 288368 Backtalk: “This is all so fundamentally unfair.” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-this-is-all-so-fundamentally-unfair/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:56:59 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=288200 And other things our readers told us.]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 288200 Backtalk: “A further erosion of our country’s foundational separation of church and state.”   https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-a-further-erosion-of-our-countrys-foundational-separation-of-church-and-state/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:57:22 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=287046 And other things our readers told us.]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 287046 Backtalk: “We need not pass bad policy for good reasons.” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-we-need-not-pass-bad-policy-for-good-reasons/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:10:21 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=286336 And other things our readers told us. ]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 286336 Backtalk: “Go get your Gravestones by Blackstone” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-go-get-your-gravestones-by-blackstone/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:35:20 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=285777 And other things our readers told us. ]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 285777 Backtalk: “Apologize and retract” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-apologize-and-retract/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=284758 And other things our readers told us. ]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 284758 Backtalk: “Horrified” but hopeful https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-horrified-but-hopeful/ Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:34:53 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=283338 In August, Lena Geller wrote about a Chapel Hill couple who lost nearly everything in Tropical Storm Chantal. They are stuck in an increasingly common situation, Lena wrote: Their home is vulnerable to flooding, but unable to sell, they have nowhere else to go. Readers shared their reactions. From reader Juli Bierwirt by email: Good […]]]>

In August, Lena Geller wrote about a Chapel Hill couple who lost nearly everything in Tropical Storm Chantal. They are stuck in an increasingly common situation, Lena wrote: Their home is vulnerable to flooding, but unable to sell, they have nowhere else to go. Readers shared their reactions. From reader Juli Bierwirt by email: Good [...]

]]> 283338 Backtalk: “We are all suffering from old traffic infrastructure.” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-we-are-all-suffering-from-old-traffic-infrastructure/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:22:35 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=282670 And other things our readers told us.]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 282670 Backtalk: “Durham is watching—and waiting.” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-durham-is-watching-and-waiting/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:13:08 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=282201 And other things our readers told us.]]>

And other things our readers told us.

]]> 282201 Backtalk: “Hurrr durr government incompetence” https://indyweek.com/firstperson/letters-to-the-editor/backtalk-2/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:56:26 +0000 https://indyweek.com/?p=281313 And other things our readers told us. ]]>

And other things our readers told us.

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