PUBLIC FORUM BREATHTAKING PHOTO.Re ``Heroes brave infernos'' (Oct. 27): I was glad to see a front-page story about someone going above and beyond the call of duty to help someone. The photograph of Brian Stires going through a window to save a person is breathtaking. I prefer this to a front page devoted to a gang member. - Caroline K Caroline K. Walters (b.1957), collaborator with UK-based Nocturnal Emissions experimental/industrial music group in the 1980's. Released solo LP "Now Wait for Last Year" in 1987 (the first release on the Earthly Delights label). . Malloy Reseda Prop. 71 There's something Orwellian and un-American about Proposition 71. Keeping human beings in a perpetual embryonic state to await their fate by the hands of others is wrong. It's bad enough that they must wait to be allowed to continue to develop and to be born so people can feel complete as parents. But must they be consigned to death as the Dr. Frankensteins of the world harvest their stem cells stem cells, unspecialized human or animal cells that can produce mature specialized body cells and at the same time replicate themselves. Embryonic stem cells are derived from a blastocyst (the blastula typical of placental mammals; see embryo), which is very young so others can live a better life? There is no moral outrage from those in the entertainment industry or from our governor. Where is the America I knew - you know, the one where the right to life was an inalienable Not subject to sale or transfer; inseparable. That which is inalienable cannot be bought, sold, or transferred from one individual to another. The personal rights to life and liberty guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States are inalienable. right? - Maureen C. Wiggins Lake View Terrace Treatments and cures As one of millions of parents with two children who suffer from a disease that could be cured with stem cells, I strongly support a yes on Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell stem cell In living organisms, an undifferentiated cell that can produce other cells that eventually make up specialized tissues and organs. There are two major types of stem cells, embryonic and adult. Research and Cures Initiative. Stem cells have the potential to provide new treatments and cures for many diseases and injuries, including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis cystic fibrosis (sĭs`tĭk fībrō`sĭs), inherited disorder of the exocrine glands (see gland), affecting children and young people; median survival is 25 years in females and 30 years in males. , Parkinson's and spinal-cord injuries. But those new treatments and cures will be found only if scientists can move forward with the research that's needed. - Gina Doughty dough·ty adj. dough·ti·er, dough·ti·est Marked by stouthearted courage; brave. [Middle English, from Old English dohtig; see dheugh- in Indo-European roots. Lancaster Prop. 63 Proposition 63 attempts to set up a mental health bureaucracy completely above the law, shielding it from any accountability to California's elected officials and locking in, for all time, a windfall for the mental health profession and its multinational drug suppliers. The U.S. Justice Department has already found California's Department of Mental Health to suffer from poor management and widespread abuse of patients. Proposition 63 just adds gasoline to the already out-of-control fire. - Mike Imken Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Prop. 67 As medical director of the emergency department of Providence St. Joseph Medical Center St. Joseph Medical Center may refer to: In the United States:
For about 50 cents a month added to our phone bill, we can help ensure our ERs are there when you need them. While it won't cost the phone companies - whose officials oppose Proposition 67 - anything, failure to pass it would cost our patients dearly. - Philip Schwarzman, M.D. Burbank Ballot taxes When will the voters say enough is enough. The money sponges we call our city officials raise our taxes for water, electricity, parks, zoo, etc. ad nauseam. Now they want us to shaft ourselves with new ballot taxes. These are the same nit-wits who find nonexistent non·ex·is·tence n. 1. The condition of not existing. 2. Something that does not exist. non million-dollar bills in the way normal people find change in their sofa. It would be bad enough if new taxes went for the stated bleeding-heart causes, but you know that won't happen. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , we get really dim-witted adj. 1. mentally retarded; relatively slow in mental function. Adj. 1. dim-witted - lacking mental capacity and subtlety simple-minded, simple solutions. Dennis Zine and his ``No babies in Dumpster'' stickers. Bozo idea. Yeah, that will work. - George Timko West Hills Fair share My 15-year-old daughter read out loud the article ``Fair share for Valley?'' (Oct. 25). She was especially outraged when reading the part where Mayor Hahn claims credit for building or renovating 11 libraries in the Valley. She wanted to know if Mayor Hahn counted the Chatsworth library among the 11. As of today, the Chatsworth Library sits unfinished. I'm not sure exactly when the old Chatsworth library was closed for rebuilding, but I do know that it's an amount of time in which my daughter has finished three years at Lawrence Middle School Lawrence Middle School is a middle school in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Lawrence Township Public Schools. The school teaches students in grades 7 and 8. Lawrence Middle School's mascot is the cardinal. and is now in her second year of high school, all without the benefit of the Chatsworth Library. - Jane Kennedy Northridge Watchdog focus Re ``Fair share for Valley?'' (Oct. 25): One would get the mistaken impression, in this report from Sacramento, that members of Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment spend their time dreaming about the next chance they would have to vote for cityhood for the Valley. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is clear to us that secession is not in the foreseeable future. As a nonpartisan lobbying organization of concerned citizens we have been and continue to focus on all the quality-of-life issues that we fought so hard for during the cityhood campaign. We promote and support governance and continue as a watchdog to see that promisees made by City Hall are fulfilled. - Joe Vitti President Valley VOTE Cartoon draws fire Can we expect Patrick O'Connor to redraw To redisplay an image on screen whether text or graphics. The concept is that the first time elements are displayed, they are "drawn," and if something is changed, they are "redrawn." Applications often have a Refresh command that redraws the screen. his Oct. 26 political cartoon anytime soon? Instead of George W. Bush standing by an explosives dump while terrorists (I mean insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. ) loot it, he can draw a soldier wearing a United Nations helmet with the caption, ``John Kerry has a plan. ... He would have us doing the job.'' The 380 tons of missing explosives disappeared under the U.N.'s watch. They are most likely hidden next to the weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . - Matthew Schaaf Granada Hills Unfair generalization Re ``By the numbers'' (Their Opinions, Oct. 27): Richard Cohen would have us vote in the upcoming election on the basis of what's good for Israel. His article lends substance to the charge that American Jews are people with divided loyalties - an unfair generalization that Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. does nothing to dispel. - William A. Mueller Sherman Oaks Iraq successful Vice presidential candidate John Edwards has it wrong. Iraq is a great success because it has attracted Muslim terrorists to that one state where it is easier to kill them, and there is no other way to stop them. It is also very successful because the terrorists are in Iraq instead of being in the USA, where they would prefer to be. - Ralph Smathers Newhall Alarming disconnect So Dick Cheney feels the chaos and quagmire in Iraq is a ``remarkable success story''? One can only pray that such ``success'' doesn't spread to other parts of the world. The Bush administration's disconnect with reality is alarming and dangerous. - Robert Young Glendale Radical Radical right-wingers love to say how much they admire George W. Bush when he takes strong but controversial stands. They say they respect his guts. But when the Daily News takes a strong but controversial stand in endorsing John Kerry for president, these same right-wing radicals go apoplectic ap·o·plec·tic adj. Relating to, having, or predisposed to apoplexy. ap  o·plec , demanding the editorial board's heads on a platter. - Paul Jackson Chatsworth Hope and pray I must applaud the Daily News for presenting bipartisan views on this emotionally charged presidential election. I, however, am in total disagreement with your endorsement of John Kerry. There is no doubt in my mind that George W. Bush is the candidate all Americans should support. We should all hope and pray - yes, it is OK to pray - he is elected. - Dolly Greene Northridge |
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