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.

So I could only get through a paragraph or two of Garvin's column before I stopped reading. Why should I read an article by someone who can't even tell what time it is? I sure wish I hadn't missed that show.

STEVEN SCHUEMANN, Miami Beach

A good news story

Re the Nov. 3 letter Always bad news about the negative focus of local news broadcasts:

I couldn't agree more. Uplifting, enlightening stories rarely make it on air. For instance, one of my best friends in Broward recently returned from Atlanta where she and her sisters participated in a three-day, 60-mile walk for a breast cancer cure.

Thankfully, my friend is not a survivor, nor does she have family members who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Regardless, she took it upon herself to train for months, raise more than $3,200 in donations and pay for her own travel to Atlanta to walk for three days and sleep in a tent for two nights for those who have succumbed to this dreaded disease.

What makes someone do something so selfless? This is what the news should feature. I am so proud of her. Stories such as these should be a larger part of the broadcast and print news.

JILL A. MACKINNON, epidemiologist and project director, Florida Cancer Data System, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami

The right course

Re the Nov. 3 article Poll: Voters moving to right:

Unfortunately, voters have no memory. The mayority of the problems we face today were created by the previous administration. Granted, this president is having difficulties, some created by the Republicans in Congress.

So this voter will do the right thing: Never, never vote right.

BERNARDO GUTIERREZ, Miami

Trying day in court

I had a similar experience to Ed Fermo (Case dismissed, Nov. 3 Readers' Forum). I am a 16-year-old recently called to testify in traffic court against a man who hit my vehicle last August. As the judge called case after case, multiple police officers -- who presumably took time off work to testify -- responded ``Unprepared'' or ``I don't remember,'' and these cases were promptly dismissed.

Why do police officers bother showing up if they are unwilling or unable to substantiate their own citations? Why even write the ticket? Is it to appease the victim (i.e. me) or simply to meet a ticket quota?

Because I testified, the case against the man who hit me was upheld. However, I was left with a distaste for our judicial system. The whole process seems like a bureaucratic pitfall and a blatant waste of tax dollars.

RYAN LEIBOWITZ, Miami Beach

Embarrassing headline

When I read the Nov. 2 front-page headline Dolphins win third in a row my immediate reaction was that I was pretty certain that we had lost to New Orleans last week. But since my 85-year-old memory isn't what it used to be I turned to Page 6C where the Dolphin's schedule showed that I was correct.

For such a major gaffe I feel your loyal readers deserve a better Correction & Clarification than is usually hidden at the bottom left on Page 3A.

How many people get to pass on the headlines of your front page?

Your headline must have made you the laughing stock of the newspaper sports writers' field.

Furthermore, I cannot understand that not one employee who reads the paper as it is coming off the presses is not a Dolphin fan with enough sense to catch the error.

Are there no safeguards in place?

ARNOLD SEAMON, Weston

Outclassed by Chávez

If Miami voters are bored by a somewhat placid mayoral race, they just need to look north to New York City where ``money-bags'' Michael Bloomberg'' set a record by spending $100 million on a local election.

But as politicians go, Bloomberg's maneuvers last year to overturn the city's term limits so he could run for an unprecedented third term still places him a far second to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who can serve for life. Bloomberg's legacy? Outclassed by a third-world dictator.

GIOVANNA D'ARCO, Miami

Healthcare solution

President Obama said that he is open to new ideas to end the healthcare debate. But we, the people, do not need any new ideas. We already have an idea that works and has worked for centuries in this country.

It's called capitalism.

OMAR SOTOLONGO, Miami

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