Letters

The manufacturers’ pro-rata warranty for lead acid batteries, for as long as I can remember, has been, with a few exceptions, a consumer rip off.

That has finally been proven in a class-action lawsuit against Johnson Controls, a company that purchased Globe Union some years ago, one of the largest manufacturers of lead acid batteries in the world.

Johnson Controls, like Globe Union had, distributes batteries that will be marketed under different labels, including a number of very popular ones.

Veterans, millions of veterans, know the meaning of this Memorial Day.  

Parents are making plans, reunions, and celebrations. Children are excited, counting the days until school is out.  

Municipalities are planning big events. Everything is in full-swing for the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend.  

Those of us who avidly read the editorial section of this newspaper surely take note of the religious intolerance has once more raised its ugly head on these pages.

Various branches of Christianity taking shots at one another is sadly a part of our history, spanning the last 2,000 years.

More disconcerting is the notion that one would be considered ignorant for having  any sort of faith in a higher power, a view that is becoming rampant across the more socialist and “educated” parts of this world.

This letter addresses columnist Gerald Largen’s unwelcomed attack on the authority of the Catholic Church to establish behavioral expectations for its members. His question “How far should we defer to priests’ decisions?” is inappropriate on several levels.

First, members of the Roman Catholic Church should, in my opinion, at least attempt to follow the tenets of their professed faith, and should be free to do so, unencumbered by laws enacted to force the church or its members to support practices that violate these tenets.