Daniel Shoer-Roth's Oct. 24 column, Nothing is in vain, regarding unemployment is inspiring; take it from someone who has been out of work for 17 months.

If it weren't for those ``spiritual moments,'' I don't know what I would have done.

The column confirms some of the things that I have tried to do in the past year and opened my eyes to other things that I can do.

It has been a tough journey, and I have my moments, but every day I find something to be thankful for.

ALINA M. CUESTA, Miami

Tynan's true feelings

Re the Oct. 21 letters Singer shows his bias:

How ironic that Ronan Tynan, who is well known for his rendition of God Bless America at Yankee ballgames, should make an anti-Semitic remark concerning his hope that he won't have Jewish neighbors in his apartment building.

Considering the fact that Irving Berlin wrote God Bless America, I wonder what Tynan would have said at another time if Berlin happened to be one of his potential neighbors.

HERBERT SIEGEL, Deerfield Beach

News networks biased

I must be living in Wonderland. The Obama administration is freezing out the Fox News Network because it says its perspective is all wrong. Granted, Fox has a conservative outlook, but am I to believe that MSNBC, CBS, CNN and others don't have a perspective in their news organizations -- that of a liberal bent?

Does President Obama only want us to hear one side of the story?

ROGER SHATANOF, Coral Gables

An adult crime

Where is the justice in Broward County? The 13-year-old who was allegedly involved in burning Michael Brewer can't be tried as an adult, prosecutors say.

Lionel Tate and Nathaniel Brazill were tried as adults. Yes, they committed different crimes, but what could be more heinous than setting someone on fire and making jokes?

This isn't a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They should all be tried as adults.

SCOTT RODAL, West Park

Help Biscayne corridor

Miami's Upper East Side has been an eyesore for many years. When the opportunity to develop it came, zoning laws had no height restrictions, the sky was the limit.

Residents of neighborhoods adjacent to the Biscayne Boulevard corridor, running from 50th to 87th streets, fought developers, even though the area was in desperate need of development. Residents feared overdevelopment and loss of property value.

Their efforts led to a new law that restricts the height of future buildings on Biscayne Boulevard to 35 feet. Now, perhaps, is the right time for everyone to join forces -- residents, business owners, developers and the authorities alike. Together we can concentrate on the future with an open mind about much-needed development of this corridor so that it can return to its old glory.

AVI ADULAMI, Miami

Bring troops home

Recent events in Afghanistan (14 Americans killed on Oct. 26, eight more on Oct. 27, making this the deadliest month of the occupation) prompt me to comment on an Oct. 25 letter, Heed McChrystal, which claims that ``President Obama should listen to what McChrystal is saying.''

He is just the latest in a line of people ``on the scene and more familiar with the realities on the ground than are the officials in the White House.'' But it is the officials in the White House who, whatever the realities on the ground, must decide if accomplishing the mission, whatever it is, is worth the inevitable and unconscionable cost in lives and money of sending more troops.

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