| Show Opinion - Standard-Examin- Friday December 1 2000 1 5A f fetters & To our Readers Standard-Examine- Coming up in the: r PO Box 12790 Ogden UT 84412-279- 0 Please keep letters to 300t words or less and include your name address and daytime phone for verification Letters must be signed and may be edited and condensed Columns ' MAIL FAX (801)625-450- Opinion pages 8 of SATURDAY: Our weekly round-u- p editorial cartoons from around the nation Lettersstandardnet I Sen David Gladwell is a strong supporter of education My husband David GladtfelL who ran success- fulty for state Senate District No 19 was wronged during this past campaign In the final days of the UniServ falsely incampaign the Ogden-Webformed teachers that he is against education Nothing icould be further from the truth He loves educators and education For the past four years he has been on the front line of education funding while serving on the Public Education Appropriations Committee David has great regard for teachers He has often stated his admiration for teachers in the privacy of our home He has spent many hours visiting classrooms and meeting with teachers lies about my husband UniServ told They said he didn’t vote for even the easiest edu-er ' cation bills His record defies this carelessstate- ment Out of the 42 education bills considered by the Legislature this past year David supported 40 of them UniServ should be ashamed for how unprofessional they have been David has a reputation in the Legislature for being a statesman and a strong supporter of education As one teacher recently stated David is a class act I would invite any educator who has been misled by UniServ to call my husband and learn the truth 5 Please call The Ogden-WebUniServ has flunked the test of honesty 737-081- er Ruth Ann Gladwell North Ogden ut ' t Drivers please pay Hello attention I am disgusted with the driving I see on the roads lately i I travel a lot between Ogden and Salt Lake City and I see too see too many drivers who seem to have tunnel vision I spent from 10 am to 3 pm on Saturday Nov 4 going to Centerville and turning around to go home because of a careless driver I never made it to work much carelessness I Then today on my way to work in West Valley I spotted a driver on entering the freeway with no intention of trying to merge I moved to the inside lane so the trucker in the outside lane could move over so this person didn’t merge into the side of the truck There was plenty of room both ' in front and behind the trucker - if this person would have cared to look and adjust his speed 1 Please people let’s pay attention and anticipate when driving We could help save everyone time money and lives Wesley Rash Ogden Prayers love offered to Gage’s family I am writing in response to the articles and commentary that have been written about Gage Wayment recently had short correspondence with a Standard-Examinreporter congratulating him for his wonderful article on little I er Gage’s funeral The article brought peace to an outsider someone so far away from the situation I have kept up on the news articles in this paper to see how the community has been dealing with this The Nov 19 commentary by Paul Wayment “Gage’s tragic death softened by kindness” touched me also Here is a man who lost the one true thing in his life that means so much Whether this is due to an error in judgment or whatever he has suf-fered like no parent should in their life t My heart goes out to your community and my prayers are with everyone who trekked the mountains looking for the little boy and for all the people who assisted in all different ways in bringing him back My love and prayers are with you God bless Victoria I I goodbye logic English-onl- y Initiative A struck me as pure M Dietterick Berwick Pa and simple bigotry Proponents cited savings in printing costs They couldn’t have been more wrong Now Utah must change its modus operandi Historic Latin legal terms must be weeded out and translated into English What could be more closely defined as “the business of the state” than its gal system? le- The cost of translating and reprinting will be phenomenal We have spoken The law is the law Adios habeas corpus Frank Wood Ogden Treatment is less costly than imprisonment Regarding the Nov 17 article on Utah’s expanding drug courts treatment has been proven to be than incarfar more crimes are sentenced for a second time for committing a violent offense non-viole- nt cost-effecti- ceration Yet in order for drug treatment to be truly effective -and not necessarily preceded by an arrest - policymakers are going to have to tone down the rhetoric of the drug Whatever else it reflects this pattern highlights the possibility that prison serves to transmit violent habits and values rather than to reduce them lerance war Tough-on-dru- gs attitudes courage the type of honest disdis- cussion necessary to facilitate treatment Driving illicit drug addiction underground is counterproductive and only compounds the problem Nonetheless drug courts are definitely a step in the right direction With violent crime rates continuing along a downward trend the drug war is the main reason America has the highest incarceration rate in the world Putting Americans with substance-abus-e problems behind bars with hardened criminals is a dangerous proposition According to research published in American of Psychologist about those initially imprisoned for one-four- The United States is making a big mistake by criminalizing illicit substance abuse Imagine if every alcoholic in America were denied treatment due to lack of funds Now take that one step further Imagine if every alcoholic were thrown in jail and given a permanent criminal record How many lives would be destroyed? How many families would be tom apart and career aspirations shattered? How many tax dollars v ould be wasted turning potentially productive mem- that uneducated immigrants would not be able to vote with reason and they wanted to keep the fink say in the hands of the educated few So the Electoral College was instituted They sold it to the people as being a way to keep power in the states Today we are still clinging to that belief even though the outcome of this election hinges on a large populated state I believe the Constitution was and is an inspired document in that men were inspired to write it However I do not believe everything in toe original document was inspired Originally only free lame-duc- k sky” We have known for a long time that there was a randy “Saturday Night Bill” and a contrite “Sunday Morning Bill” Mr Saturday Night was an alley cat who let the dogs out Mr Sunday Morning sang in the church choir in Arkansas and stood before a national prayer breakfast and confessed he had sinned Indeed in August he discussed his moral failings candidly with 1 000 Christian leaders from around the world Prodded by the Rev Bill Hybels a minister who has counseled with him every month for eight years President Clinton described his spirituality as a work in progress and said he was working on rebuilding his family life But just a few months later there he was grinning suggestively on the cover of “Esquire” His wife Hillary didn’t mention his name and shrugged away his hugs when she won her New York Senate race You get the feeling these days that Bill Clinton realizes he will never be in that “fancy rock garden on Mount Rushmore” no matter how good the economy or welfare reform or the North American Free Trade Agreement were And that frustrates him If he's really smart Bill Clinton will ask Hybels to keep up his spiritual counseling after he changes addresses in January Because from all appearances the man is not finished yet Rena Pederson is editor of The Dallas Morning News editorial page Write to her at The Dallas Morning News Communications president By RENA PEDERSON The Dallas Morning News Bill Clinton was Nowhere Man during the presidential campaign A1 Gore acted as if he d were some guy in a suit that he met once on a flight But now Bill Clinton is everywhere He’s back in the headlines jetting to Vietnam to promote trade with a country that is now sporting Nike shoe factories He’s also back on magazine covers and interestingly each reflects a different face of his Rubik’s Cube persona Most notoriously the 42nd president of the United States is on the cover of the December “Esquire” in a cocky parody of statthe ue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial It’s his Elvis side in full color To see such a cheapening of the presidency makes you wonder “What was he thinking?” Inside he reveals that he thinks the Republicans should have apologized for impeaching him because he had apologized for sinning Later he complained that “Esquire" printed what he said There he is again in the December issue of “Wired” magazine the hip required reading for the digirati In the exit interview he waxes eloquent about telecommunications and the new econofny He predicts our increasing global interdependence will act as a “reverse social Darwinism” forcing people gravy-staine- es 1 around the world to seek more win-wi- n solutions to disputes than win-loscenarios because their fates are interconnected within communities and beyond borders This time he’s Oxford se Bill There he is on the cover of the “New Yorker” dressed like a chunky cowpoke riding off into the sunset Joe Klein who brilliantly novelized White House machinations in “Primary Colors” shows a Clinton who is just now figuring out how to operate like a president rather than a governor There he is on the cover of the very conservative “National Review” with a sneermg headline “A Farewell to the Big Creep FINALLY" The writers complain that Clinton's legacy is that he made the presidency smaller: “The question left for Clinton’s successor is what to make of a diminished thing” Amazing William Jefferson ” Clinton soon a at 54 will be remembered most for a stretch of prosperity and the stretcher “I did not have sex “has-been- Center Dallas Texas 75265 The Lindesmith Center-Dru- g Policy Foundation Washington DC RB757BCWH - Hotpoint 30" white males were allowed to Free-Standin- g vote Minorities and women were excluded from this fundamental right so an amendment was later drafted to include all Americans GE RANGE GE RANGE HOTPOINT RANGE JBP30WBWW - GE Spectra QuickClean Electric Range JBP66BBWH - GE Spectra 30' QuickClean Electric Range 30' g g Electnc Range What is ultimately fair is what support: The vote of the majority should elect all public officials in the future In American history the three othpr times that a president has been elected by less than a majority vote has ended with three ineffective presidents I It takes about 36 states to overcome most-populat- the states which 14 HOTPOINT ap- Sett Cleaning Oven pears to favor the populated states more than the states Also not all states are bound to vote by the popular vote of their state ed Two and Two 8" 6" Plug Cooktop with m Dual Heating Elements Calrod Support Rods Wouldn't itbe easier to influence the outcome of an election by buying a few electoral votes than to buy millions of popular votes? 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