Editorials
The money tree
Auditors have found that George Kirkpatrick's creation, the Occupational Access and Opportunity Commission, is fatally flawed with inherent conflict and should be abolished.

Unseemly bias, unneeded benefit
Some 1,100 students already have applied for 30 openings at Florida State University's medical school this fall. But it may be that only 28 of the slots are fairly awarded. By law, the other two must be reserved for students or graduates of the five U.S. service academies -- in preference, if necessary, to applicants with better grade-point averages and superior Medical College Admissions Test scores.

Letters
Community's progress was at stake
Re: Chief's firing splits, confounds neighbors, Dec. 23.

Robyn E. Blumner
Transfer policy for detainee has been abused
In an almost comic moment at the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Attorney General John Ashcroft's terrorism investigation, Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold raised concerns over the problems detainees were having accessing lawyers. In some cases, detainees reported being moved from place to place so their attorneys couldn't locate them. Others said they were given little or no opportunity to communicate with counsel.