From the Editor’s Desk

An editor says goodbyeEditorial independence and hard-nosed business motives go hand in hand.They live in symbiosis – great journalism attracts more readers, more readers attract move advertisers and more revenue supports even greater journalism. This newspaper has long lived and prospered by that model, and been

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Ticket to ride – trains

Dear Editor:Empty planes, long haul trains and dicey roads for buses. We’ve got a simple plan-perfectly perfect ticket to ride; one direction -- one way or another.Please pay attention, please pay heed. This is “all” about uncensored, uncankered political candor.We all know that it is politically

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Drawing conclusions

Dear Editor:May the sun always shine on Temiskaming Shores and on you Gord.For without you and The Speaker, my lifelong dream of becoming an editorial cartoonist would have never been a reality.Good luck Gordon where ever your next chapter in life takes you.Dave DickersonTemiskaming Speaker

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From the Editor’s Desk

The reportersUp until the mid-1970s The Temiskaming Speaker’s editorial department was a one-man show. That “one man” being the editor. Full-time reporters weren’t added to The Speaker’s editorial department until the decade of the 1970s. Previous to that The Speaker had what were called “correspondents”. These

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Compromises and solutions

Dear Editor:The big picture, when push comes to shove. This, all of this, has an enourmous amount of clout. Please pay attention, please pay heed.At home here in North America and several other civilized parts of the world we all live together in a “God given” Christian-established

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