Sorry to see Lonnie go

Posted 11/25/14

To the Editor:

This is an open letter to Lonnie Barham.

I am very sorry to see you go, but I must tell you that you wrote excellent columns. You knew your subjects and it was a pleasure to read …

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Sorry to see Lonnie go

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To the Editor:

This is an open letter to Lonnie Barham.

I am very sorry to see you go, but I must tell you that you wrote excellent columns. You knew your subjects and it was a pleasure to read your columns.

George W. Gange

Warwick

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  • jfraser

    Not sad to see him go at all. Maybe the beacon can now hire a writer who is a bit more balanced than lonnie who was clearly a shill for the right wing.

    Wednesday, November 26, 2014 Report this

  • ronruggieri

    I read a number of Lonnie's columns which were certainly well written and worth reading. I recall his very PROGRESSIVE view on ending the foolish and expensive war on drugs. But his right wing ideology showed in a letter to the Providence Journal in which he expressed the strange opinion that retired editorial page editor, Robert Whitcomb, was so Far-Left that he was only borderline employable . What, a Bolshevik in power at 75 Fountain St. ? Is Colonel Lonnie happy now with the right-wing, science illiterate, and ethics hypocrite Ed Achorn ?

    Also, very curious how so many right wing columnists fear the " tyranny of the majority ". Does our ONE PERCENT plutocracy rule by divine right ?

    http://radicalrons.blogspot.com

    Monday, December 1, 2014 Report this

  • JohnStark

    ron, The American Left has a living, breathing embodiment of it's policies. It's called the State of Rhode Island. One party rule has resulted in high unemployment, confiscatory taxes resulting in an exodus of taxpayers, mass public corruption, broad welfare dependency, and an open hostility to the dreaded private sector. In short, a shrinking number of Producers to support an expanding number of Takers. The only problem is that in this Leftist Utopia, you're predictably running out of other peoples' money to pay for your 'compassion'.

    Monday, December 1, 2014 Report this