Editorials
Goodbye to a winner
Tony Dungy has been a successful football coach and an even better human being, and this community will miss him even if his successor wins a Super Bowl.
Food stamps for immigrants
President Bush's proposal to restore food stamps to legal immigrants living in poverty is a step Congress should take. Enactment of the president's plan would correct one of the harshest provisions in the 1996 welfare law, passed by Congress and signed by then-President Clinton, that made legal immigrants ineligible for many forms of public assistance. Ostensibly designed to help balance the federal budget, the move doubled as a way for politicians to give immigrants the stick while enabling Washington to shift a greater part of the burden for social services to local governments and the states.
Editorial Notebook: Martin Dyckman
Put money in deep space
An asteroid some 1,000 feet wide -- about the size of a very large shopping center -- crossed Earth's orbit at not quite twice the distance of the moon last week. Astronomers consider it a very near miss, too close for comfort. Had it hit land, it could have taken out an area the size of France, Texas or the entire Northeastern megalopolis. On impacting at sea, it could have flooded lowlands around the world, killing millions.
Letters
Hunt for scandal in Enron case turns up little
You have to hand it to the media -- they never stop trying. Ever since Sept. 11, they've been looking for some kind of scandal to hang on an extremely popular George W. Bush, but just haven't been able to get any traction. Now comes Enron, which seems tailor made for the occasion. With so many big-money ties to the administration, surely there must be something that could tarnish the image of the White House, and the two Big Oil men who run it.
Bill Maxwell
In celebration of a true American legacy
GAINESVILLE -- In many cities nationwide, the events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. continue to be attended mostly by African-Americans and a handful of other civil rights advocates.
