http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Letters to the Editor 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:25:01 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1323699.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1323699.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Re the Nov. 6 article, SunPass alternative unveiled: Why is it always necessary for us, the despised motoring public, to pay money in advance to use our own roads? http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1320908.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1320908.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1320912.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1320912.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1320907.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1320907.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1321129.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1321129.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST What sort of headline is Army doctor blamed in base rampage to describe the worst attack ever on a military installation in this country? http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1321122.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1321122.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1319262.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1319262.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1319269.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1319269.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1319260.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1319260.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Oct. 26 editorial, Uninspiring energy-efficiency standards, was long on rhetoric and short on specifics. <p/> 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1317952.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1317952.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1317953.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1317953.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1317951.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1317951.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1324615.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1324615.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:57 EST When almost the first word a child says, as she points to the night sky, is `` moon,'' you feel duty-bound to cultivate that interest, if not to start putting aside tuition money for Young Astronauts Camp. So on the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo landing, I was happy to watch, with my granddaughter Julia, age 9, NASA-channel films of the manned moon missions. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1320609.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1320609.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:22 EST We are speeding toward climate ``catastrophe,'' U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the World Climate Conference in Geneva two months ago.<p/> The seas could rise 7 feet and wash over coasts, river deltas and low-lying islands, and the time to prevent the threatening flood is now, the U.N. leader said as he implored the world's leaders to sign a new climate agreement when the so-called Kyoto II conference meets in Copenhagen from Dec. 7 to 17. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1325233.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1325233.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There really are no words to express the horror and sadness that I feel over the senseless loss of two young lives in Miami Springs: Charlie Peel and Nick Colmenares. I have thought often that the residents of Miami-Dade County needed to take our communities back -- from the drug dealers, the criminals with guns who shoot and kill children, or whatever it is that is against common decency. Those individuals who played a part in this sorry drama also need to be held accountable. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1325223.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1325223.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A win-win program to use composted restaurant waste to enrich inner-city vegetable gardens is opposed by the Miami-Dade Department of Solid Waste Management (DSWM) because it will impact its bottom line. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1325225.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1325225.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST I recently enjoyed Topol's farewell tour in Fiddler on the Roof. He was sensational, age not withstanding. I was, however, pleasantly surprised by one of the actors, Sean Patrick Doyle, who played Frume-Sarah. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1323706.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1323706.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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? http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1323697.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1323697.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 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.''