THANK YOU.BEFORE closing the curtain on 2002, the Daily News would like to once again acknowledge and thank those readers who took the time to write to us and made Your Opinions, the letters to the editor columns, one of the liveliest and best read parts of the paper. The list of published letter writers, slightly more than 2,000, grew by more than 25 percent this year, up from around 1,400 in 2001. As usual, we received about 10 times as many letters as we had room to publish - one of the reasons we ask you to keep your letters short. We tried to publish a cross section that represented what our readers were saying. We also tried to give space to the lone voices crying out in the wilderness. The letter writers were rowdy - as usual - starting off the year with a debate on the war in Afghanistan and ending it arguing about the righteousness Righteousness See also Virtuousness. Amos prophet of righteousness. [O.T.: Amos] Astraea goddess of righteousness. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 36] Benedetto, Don Catholic teacher of moral precepts. [Ital. Lit. of a war in Iraq. Many writers got into personal spats spat 1 v. A past tense and a past participle of spit1. spat 2 n. pl. spat or spats 1. with other writers. And that was OK, too. Your Opinions is for your opinions, and they frequently clash. By far the most written-about subject of the year was the proposed Valley secession. Candidates as well as voters touted their positions, and more than a few paid consultants dropped us a line. Along the way, a lot of people - public officials and letter writers, too - got verbally disciplined in the columns. Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California and Gov. Gray Davis were by far the favorite targets, but 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. Superintendent Roy Romer Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. and Cardinal Roger Mahony His Eminence Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony (born February 27, 1936) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1991. also got their fair share of abuse. The Daily News got smacked across the knuckles with the ruler, too. We'd like to thank you letter writers for speaking out and letting us know what you thought really mattered. We tried to keep track of the contributors to Your Opinion and we begin publishing your names today and will continue to publish them through the end of the week, along with the best cartoons from View From the Valley by Patrick O'Connor Patrick J. O'Connor is a long-serving alderman in Chicago's City Council. O'Connor represents the 40th Ward on the North Side. Like the majority of the members of the City Council, he is a member of the Democratic Party. . This is our way of saying thank you. Keep the letters coming, and if you haven't written to us before, give it a shot. It doesn't hurt and it's important for people to see what others are thinking. CAPTION(S): drawing Drawing: To our letter writers... Illustration by Patrick O'Connor |
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