Letters
As a parent of three third-graders starting a new school in Henderson this year, I was shocked to find out that there was no bus transportation for them.
To the editor: As a political scientist somewhat familiar with constitutional rights, I had briefly sparred with my unabashed liberal friend via e-mail that building a mosque near Ground Zero — although constitutional and therefore legal — was not the proper path to pursue. He dismissed my argument for its divisiveness, absolute insensitivity and questionable motives. It was about rights, not responsibilities, he argued.
To the editor: The U.S. Department of Education became a Cabinet level department signed into law by Jimmy Carter in 1979. According to the agency’s website, the total estimated 2010 expenditures were $56 billion.