PUBLIC FORUM OFF-SITE ADMINISTRATORS.Re ``Fixing the LAUSD'' (Editorial, Aug. 1): At last the Daily News discovers an administration amiss in LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) . United Teachers of 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. has been pointing out bureaucratic boondoggles in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. for years. The union even sponsored a bill to limit school administrators to 5 percent of the total number of school employees. It never could get support to get the bill passed. The truth is off-site administrators are not held accountable for their actions. Too often administrators report to board meetings without reports the board requested months before. We fail students who do not get their work done on time. The district rewards its recalcitrant employees with pay raises and promotions. How else could the superintendent receive an extension of his contract? - Ed LeVine Chatsworth Needed a subway Re ``Orange Line Busway'' (Your Opinions, July 27): Bruce Spiegel's praise for the landscaping of the Orange Line Busway is all well and good, but think how much better it would be if the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. had shown real vision and initiative and used the dedicated right-of-way to construct what is really needed, a subway. The transportation corridor would still have been landscaped, but with bike and walking paths and no buses. - Howard Littman North Hollywood Refreshing site change As a longtime Valley resident, I can't wait for the Orange Line to be completed and operational. Not only will it fill a wasteland strip in the Valley with upgrades, rapid bus transportation, needed parking, trees, walkways and a bike path, but it will be refreshing sight change from the decades of a commercial railroad right of way. I believe it will also be a plus for real estate values. - Sol Taylor Sherman Oaks Caught you Re ``Christian minority targeted in Iraq'' (July 2): Oops. The Daily News let some truth sneak through today regarding Iraq. In the article on the attack on the Christian minority it says ``the U.S.-led invasion has unleashed Islamist hardliners, long suppressed during Saddam's rule.'' Be careful Daily News, you don't want to be accused of ``being like Mike,'' Michael Moore  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. that is, and actually saying what the rest of the world knows, which is that we have created a power vacuum A power vacuum is an expression for a political situation that can occur when a government has no identifiable central authority. The metaphor implies that, like a physical vacuum, other forces will tend to "rush in" to fill the vacuum as soon as it is created, perhaps in the form which has been filled by religious nuts who are using the American invasion as a successful recruiting issue. The next thing you might do is start showing photos of maimed maim tr.v. maimed, maim·ing, maims 1. To disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at batter1. 2. Iraqi children and American troops. We can't have that. - Chuck Heinold West Hills Paying for Bush Re ``Kerry as Senator'' (August 1): Bill Zelenka wonders who will pay for Sen. John Kerry's promises. He should also ask who will pay for Bush's? Bush has given tax cuts while increasing spending. Normally one would do this with spending cuts. Now, we have a huge budget deficit. Just where does Zelenka thinks this money will come from to pay this deficit down? The Tooth Fairy? Someone will have to pay for this deficit sooner or later. Trust me, it won't be the Tooth Fairy. - Richard Martin The name Richard Martin can refer to different people:
Burbank Include me out If Teresa Heinz Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry (born October 5, 1938) is an American philanthropist, the widow of the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III, and the wife of Senator John Kerry. Kerry, wife of Sen. John Kerry Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , plans to exercise her ``cherished right to free expression,'' very often as first lady, then as Yogi Berra Noun 1. Yogi Berra - United States baseball player (born 1925)Berra, Lawrence Peter Berra, Yogi said, ``Include me out.'' I will enthusiastically vote for President Bush. You go, Laura. - Robert A. Gismondi Reseda Wait for debates It seems that people are critical that Sen. John Kerry's speech did not give enough information on his programs of how he would implement them. All convention speeches are not intended to explain all the details of how the candidates are going to implement their programs. There is not enough time to do it. There will be times and places to do that. They are called debates. Both parties can explain their policies and track records. - Martin Schiechl West Hills What we have After all the gushing gush v. gushed, gush·ing, gush·es v.intr. 1. To flow forth suddenly in great volume: water gushing from a hydrant. 2. over John Kerry, John Edwards and their speeches, what do we have? Regarding the war on terror This article is about U.S. actions, and those of other states, after September 11, 2001. For other conflicts, see Terrorism. The War on Terror (also known as the War on Terrorism , they will undertake what Bush is already doing. On the economy they will repeal the tax cut which turned around the recession. While ridiculing the president for the deficit they will increase spending at all levels. You can go on and on, but the most troubling aspect of their convention was the stance they took telling the American people to just sit there, just wait, don't do anything on your own, don't work hard toward your goals. Sit there, ``Hope is on the way.'' Let the government take care of everything. Disturbing. - Michael Hannin Oxnard Congress' job In his convention speech, Kerry said, ``Saying there are 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 in Iraq doesn't make it so.'' Yes, we know that, Sen. Kerry. Congress' investigation - this year - clearly found that the allegations used to let Bush rush us into the Iraq invasion were simply wrong. If Congress would have done its job in late 2002 - its constitutionally mandated responsibility under the ``separation of powers'' clause - they would have saved almost a thousand American and thousands of others' lives, and our sky-high-and-growing war debt would not exist. But, whether out of fear, ignorance, disinterest dis·in·ter·est n. 1. Freedom from selfish bias or self-interest; impartiality. 2. Lack of interest; indifference. tr.v. To divest of interest. Noun 1. , laziness or opportunism Opportunism Arabella, Lady squire’s wife matchmakes with money in mind. [Br. Lit.: Doctor Thorne] Ashkenazi, Simcha shrewdly and unscrupulously becomes merchant prince. [Yiddish Lit. , the majority simply and irresponsibly caved in and let Bush do as he wished. - Stanley J. Bass Montrose For Republicans The recent Democratic Convention in Boston was probably the most successful one ever: for Republicans. There was but a brief four hours of network television coverage all week, which garnered dismal ratings. The much anticipated John Edwards speech was a dud. Hillary made the very least of her speaking opportunity, while Al Sharpton made the most of his. Teresa Heinz Kerry, dressed in a ketchup red dress, managed to increase her negative ratings to close to 66 percent. Not ready for prime time not ready for prime time - Usable, but only just so; not very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device. Often connotes that the thing will be made more solid Real Soon Now. Howard Dean got the warmest reception of anyone all week. John Kerry made one of the best speeches of his career and ended up with what appears to be a ``negative bounce.'' Overall, the Dems would have been better off not to have had a convention at all. - Bobbi Leigh Zito Porter Ranch Electoral College electoral college, in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, Re ``The gap widens'' (Your Opinions, July 30): Thank God for the Electoral College. Like the Senate, it ensures that the populous states don't run roughshod over the other states. If it didn't exist, presidential politics would only exist on the two coasts and a few populous interior states. It is an important part of the checks and balances built into the Constitution. With the Electoral College, an elected president truly serves the entire country. Our form of representative democracy works better than any government in history; ``it ain't broke,'' and doesn't need fixing. - John Green Northridge Judge for yourself I am a 56-year-old teacher, raised in conservative Whittier, Calif., who just returned from seeing Michael Moore's ``Fahrenheit 9/11.'' I challenge every person who's condemned the movie without seeing it or made up his mind to vote for George W. Bush in November: See ``9/11'' first. Examine the film closely for yourself for any lies, distortions or deceptions. After you've seen the movie, let's see if you're still in Bush's camp. - Kathie Marshall Northridge |
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