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• The ultimate guarantee

  After the recent tragic shooting at Fort Hood, it should be clear that there are certain things that this country cannot risk happening. The safety and integrity of the men and women proudly serving in our military services must be beyond any hint of internal attack. Can there be anything more treasonous than an unprovoked killing of military personnel by one of their own?

• A reform formula

  As a third-year medical student at the University of Miami, I am concerned by your justification for supporting the public option (Public option, Nov. 1 editorial): ``Private insurers don't make a profit by insuring people likely to need coverage'' could be distilled to ``sick people cost more.''

• Not a dream for citizens

  Mirta Ojito's Nov. 1 column, One more terrible thing to waste, is an attempt to soften public opinion on the DREAM Act. The act would provide children of illegal immigrants the chance to seek a college education without fear of deportation and to qualify for scholarships and grants.

• One-liners

  Promises were made but never kept. This will be the unfortunate epitaph of this administration if it continues watering down the solutions to the problems we face, whether they are single-payer health insurance or alternative energy.

• Succinct health bill

  The Republicans are complaining about the length of the House's draft healthcare bill: 1,900 pages. To put their carping in context, the scholar Norman Sherry wrote a three-volume biography of one man, the English writer Graham Greene, numbering roughly 2,500 pages.

• Don't drop tests for high-school students

  As a 23-year high-school teacher in the Broward County school system, I am appalled at the new policy of the School Board to allow students to be exempt from taking their midterm or final exams if they have an A or B average. In today's highly competitive global economy we should be making our curricula more rigorous, not less.

• Where's the outrage?

  What sort of headline is Army doctor blamed in base rampage to describe the worst attack ever on a military installation in this country?

• Real energy efficiency

  The Oct. 26 editorial, Uninspiring energy-efficiency standards, was long on rhetoric and short on specifics.

  I have proven that we can achieve real efficiency and do it with little or no financial pain or reduction in lifestyle. I reduced my usage by 40 percent.

• Ashes of destruction

  On 9/11 we were attacked by cowardly enemies who hate everything that our nation stands for. They hate our freedom, our innovative spirit and our good will. They label us imperialists who wish only to attack Islam and Muslim nations. What is our answer as a nation? We take 7.5 tons of steel from Ground Zero and use our innovative spirit to meld debris taken from the ashes of destruction into a new warship.

• Statement ``ill advised''

  Re a Nov. 4 article Jackson, UM leaders square off in which I am quoted as saying, ``I would not send my family to many of them,'' referring to Jackson Memorial Hospital's new doctors. At a recent meeting between the leadership of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Health System, I spoke in frustration about the complex and often difficult circumstances in which both institutions operate their shared public mission. As chairman of the UM Board of Trustees, I made a statement that was indeed ill-advised. For this I apologize.

• Untrue rumors

  The Humane Society of Greater Miami Adopt-A-Pet, a limited-admit, adoption-guarantee organization, merged with Pet Rescue on Nov. 1 and has faced more malicious remarks than ever before.

• Fighting oppression

  I appreciated Ellen Goodman's Nov. 2 Other Views column A little short of paradise on the state of women's happiness. If women are testing as less happy 40 years after the rise of women against systemic oppression, it means they've become more real. At the Trauma Resolution Center, we use validated measurements for posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety on the traumatized humans who come to us for help to ensure they are making improvements in our program.

• Not a cool idea

  Our president thinks it is a great idea to give some $200 million of our tax dollars to FPL so it can find new ways to monitor how we use electricity. The claim is that it would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 575,000 tons over 30 years.

• Train for the mission

  As the fourth of now five generations to serve the Coast Guard, I feel I am qualified to comment upon the Oct. 25 story, NY Coast Guard chief disciplined over storm outing. The Harris family has served dating back to my great grandfather when he joined the Life Saving Service in 1895. I, like my father before me and his father before him, were all boatswain's mates.

• Train economics

  The Oct. 27 Miami Herald editorial, Fund Tri-Rail, jump start bullet train, observes that it cost $256 million to double track Tri-Rail.

• Bad timing

  I got a chuckle reading Glen Garvin's Nov. 3 Other Views column The funny numbers game. Garvin's ``war on mathematics'' actually started on Nov. 2 when he listed the hours of the TV show Weird Florida as being on between 10 and 11 p.m. It actually was on between 9 and 10 p.m.

• The ditherer

  Does Dick Cheney know ``dithering'' when he sees it? I doubt it. He helped start a war in Afghanistan and rambled around with it for eight years. That is what I call dithering.

• Keep local governments in the sunshine

  The Miami-Dade County Commission recently passed a resolution supporting an ill-conceived proposed measure in Tallahassee that would allow local governments to close the door on the Florida Government in the Sunshine Act. At a time when the public should hold the decisions of their elected officials at a premium, now is not the time to hide important information on the Internet where many constituents whom the County Commission serve cannot access it.

• The Herald recommends

  Voters in several cities, including Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah, go to the polls on Tuesday. These are The Miami Herald's recommendations in those three cities.

• U.S. 1 is No. 1

  The Florida Keys has something old and something new to share. The ``old'' is the historic Overseas Highway -- U.S. 1. The ``new'' is that it has been officially recognized as an All American Road, a national treasure.

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