Editorials
Conservancy shows how to save
How does one create a new national park when the people running the U.S. Department of Interior are timid, at best, on preservation? You do it yourself, which is how the Nature Conservancy created Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.

Hedging on the detainees
The White House's effort to clarify the policy on treatment of Taliban and al-Qaida detainees at Guantanamo only created further confusion.

Letters
Community moves in right direction
Re: Amid troubles, new voice emerges, Feb. 3.

Susan Taylor Martin
What is America getting in return for its foreign aid?
Every year, Israel and Egypt get a total of $5-billion in U.S. foreign aid, making them by far the largest recipients of American largesse.

Martin Dyckman
Some would tax your groceries if they could
TALLAHASSEE -- The lobbyists knew before Senate President John McKay that Jeb Bush was preparing to dump on his tax reform. Some of them were even boasting about it on the street Tuesday.

Robyn E. Blumner
Study on glass ceiling is worthless science
Benjamin Disraeli was thought to have said there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. A new report, A New Look Through the Glass Ceiling: Where are the Women?, written by U.S. Reps. John Dingell, D-Michigan, and Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, is the third.

Philip Gailey
On campaign reform -- ban soft money, not speech
The Enron scandal, which exploded like a stink bomb in Washington, has revived the debate over campaign finance reform, a political disinfectant Congress has resisted for years. The Houston energy company spread its soft money among Republicans and Democrats, just as other corporations do, and now that the company has been brought down by fraud, corruption and greed, members of Congress are scrambling to distance themselves from this dirty giant. They are returning their Enron campaign donations and may even be ready to turn off the soft-money spigot.

Bill Maxwell
'Manchild' resonates as strongly today
'Run!'