Opinions for week ending: Sunday, October 05 2008

(10.01.08) Raleigh Officials Heavily Discount Convention Center
RALEIGH — City officials gave $2.3 million in rental discounts on the newly minted Raleigh Convention Center through 2023 and $167,000 in taxpayer-funded subsidies this year to attract companies and organizations, public records show. The city also booked at least 10 groups for free, among them RBC Centura Bank, and another dozen organizations for one dollar each. Other groups, however, paid full freight for conventions next year.

(10.01.08) Hispanics and police
The Winston-Salem Journal says that gaining the trust of Hispanics is part of improving public safety. But those here illegally who are arrested should be deported.

(10.01.08) Retreat from the sea
Instead of jamming things closer to eroding shorelines, and then defending them at all costs, the time has come to retreat from an encroaching sea writes Orrin H. Pilkey.

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