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Plenty of blame for the war Your editorial 'Reflections on the war' was timely for July 4 celebrations (@issue, July 2). It reinforces the belief of two-thirds of the country [...]

The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge needs no explanation, but people honored by some other local bridges might need introductions: KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE A native Pole, Tadeusz Kosciuszko (ka-SHUSH-ko) was an American […]

Iran nuclear report Beware incompetent Bush President Bush has outdone himself. After his administration blocked release of this National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, presumably because it contradicted his war-mongering rhetoric [...]

King statue: Hire a Georgia artist The state with a lot of granite is buying granite from a foreign country. And using a foreign artist for a sculpture of one [...]

Voter ID law: Responses to 'Law threatens the right to vote,' Editorial, July 2 Prerequisite keeps system in check The AJC has missed the boat once again. To argue against [...]

King funeral: Southern hospitality missing Former President Jimmy Carter and the Rev. Joseph Lowery should publicly apologize to President Bush for their remarks at Coretta Scott King's funeral. Embarrassing the [...]

GOOD NEIGHBORS The Journal-Constitution reserves this space each week to give readers an opportunity to say thank you for kind deeds they have recently seen or experienced. Kindnesses flow after [...]

Reaching out: Responses to 'Bush must reach out,' Editorial, Nov. 4 It's the liberals who must reach The liberal media are bleating that President Bush must reach out to the [...]

Druid Hills Golf Club: Responses to op-ed package, @issue, Jan. 16 It's about love of family What Lee Kyser describes is a family and the thoughts and feelings we all [...]

To help pay for sewers, pay more for booze Now that someone else has been shot in Buckhead, bars open after 2 a.m. throughout the city are to blame. It [...]

In response to Martha Burk and the women's organizations' position on the membership of Augusta National Golf Club, as a woman I am embarrassed that NCWO has chosen such a [...]

Pledge of Allegiance: Ruling is a punch in the stomach I am outraged that the pledge was ruled unconstitutional. I can't believe that someone has decided to punch America in [...]

Southern Co. move likely to be a real gas So the Southern Company, parent company of Georgia Power, wants to buy a bankrupt natural gas supplier ('Southern tries gas power [...]

Picture of Japanese shrine insults U.S. WWII veterans I don't know why I was shocked at the front-page picture of a Japanese war veteran paying homage at the Yasukuni Shrine [...]

Coverage of economy paints an overly pessimistic picture I have been disappointed in the media's recent coverage of the U.S. economy. Several articles strike me as alarmist at worst or [...]

Charter schools have provided only marginal academic gains The charter school movement reflects previous reform movements that offer a simplistic response to complex educational problems. State legislatures have invested millions [...]

GOOD NEIGHBORS: World-class zoo director a blessing for Atlanta Terry Maple, director and CEO of Zoo Atlanta, made an eloquent plea to save the Sumatran tiger on the same day [...]

Bulldogs need a leader like Nall What's wrong with Georgia football, as I see it, are the same things I see every day as a teacher in the public school. [...]

Underground votes Late on Election Day, Al Gore worried that he may lose Florida, so he dispatched the VFG to look out for his interests. Bill Daley, president of the [...]

Power co-op got community input The Sept. 25 Spotlight column ('Co-ops' power over land is unchecked,' Sept. 25) ignores two important facts. First, there is a clear need for a [...]

Wooten should switch topics and stop focusing on sprawl I'm beginning to feel nauseated by Jim Wooten's position on sprawl in Atlanta ('Work to protect green space and preserve quality [...]

Norris showed his ignorance While it is certainly (Jeff Norris') right to express his opinion about an article on a sport he obviously dislikes, he has unfortunately displayed his ignorance [...]

Reagan's legacy Mack Moore ('Reagan undeserving of coin,' June 27, 'In My Opinion') knows his economics, and he is entitled to his interpretation of the Reagan years. He conveniently omits [...]

Wilkens blame unmerited I was saddened to hear of the resignation of Lenny Wilkens. The Hawks seem incapable of running a class operation. How could an organization have a top-notch [...]

CAROLYN WILDER I have been reading the 'Pedal to the metal' series about the carnage on our highways. I have driven in other states recently, and nowhere did I find [...]

An electronics store owner who shot and killed two robbers in a gunfight regretted none of it but his scars. A pet store owner who did the same and briefly became a neighborhood hero closed his shop, moved on to other work and tried to forget. A jeweler spent the rest of his life wishing he had never chased after two men who robbed his Brooklyn store. He told his family that he meant only to wound them when he pulled the trigger. Insurance, he lamented, would have covered the theft. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An ex-convict with a knife grabs a parole officer in Queens and is shot dead. A screaming woman slashes a uniformed police officer with a 12-inch kitchen knife inside her apartment in Brooklyn. She, too, is killed. On Sunday, a man wildly swung a knife in his Bronx apartment at a group of specially trained and armored officers, saying, ''I don't care about killing myself.'' After failing to subdue him with rubber bullets and Taser jolts, officers with the Emergency Services Unit shot the man dead. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The area around Bathgate Avenue and 174th Street is an industrial park, a contradictory term for a place that has more concrete-covered factory floors than grassy fields. Yet the term is quite fitting, actually, in another way: This ordinary corner of Bronx blue-collar life was once home to Studs Terkel, who earned fame by writing about people who were utterly devoid of it. Mr. Terkel, who died last week in his adopted home, Chicago, was born in the Bronx in 1912 and, according to the 1920 census, lived with his family at 1721 Bathgate Avenue, just south of 174th. He did not mention Bathgate in his last memoir, referring only to Clinton Avenue, a few blocks to the east, in a few pages, before shifting his memories to Chicago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lorne Michaels and Oscar de la Renta probably do not follow the deliberations of the New York City Council standards committee any more than most people. But they and other prominent, wealthy New Yorkers who volunteer on local civic boards and commissions might want to tune in on Tuesday. The committee will be discussing whether the people who sit on boards of certain nonprofit organizations will have to submit long and detailed financial disclosure forms -- laying bare their sources of income, stock holdings, real estate investments and debts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the most powerful defender of trial lawyers in the Legislature, has lent at least $50,000 of his own money to a company that helps finance small law firms that specialize in personal injury lawsuits. Since early last year, Mr. Silver, himself a trial lawyer, made two separate loans to the company, Counsel Financial. The loans come due in 2010, according to his latest ethics disclosure form. Paul R. Cody, the president of Counsel, declined to specify the size of Mr. Silver's loans, but said such notes generally start at $25,000 each and often are much larger. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The urge to climb came early to Timmy O'Neill, when there was nothing around him but concrete and steel. To the teenage Timmy, during a visit to New York from Philadelphia, the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge were as alluring as any playground jungle gym, but his short vertical clamber ended the same way some of his climbs do today: with a visit from the police. ''My father got chewed out,'' said Mr. O'Neill, 38, who has never stopped climbing. He favors natural formations, though he scales city buildings, including the Tribune Tower in Chicago, often enough to have earned the nickname the Urban Ape. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MIDTOWN, FEBRUARY 2007 A woman from Dallas left a suitcase in Osman Chowdhury's taxi, which she took from the Hilton Hotel to East 35th Street between Second and Third Avenues. She gave Mr. Chowdhury a 30-cent tip on a $10.70 fare -- and a $100 reward when he returned the suitcase, which had been left in the trunk and which held, in addition to clothing, 31 diamond rings and a laptop computer. LA GUARDIA AIRPORT, OCTOBER 2005 Thierry Belisha and Haimy Mann, jewelers from Montreal, left a suitcase full of diamonds and other gems in the back of a cab they took to La Guardia Airport after a show at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Mr. Belisha, an Orthodox Jew, called several rabbi friends in Israel and asked them to pray for him, prayers that were answered when Hossam Abdalla, a Muslim cabdriver, found Mr. Belisha's business card in the trunk and returned the suitcase (with all the gems). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

During her spring break in March, Chanequa Campbell, a Harvard senior, traveled to Milan for at least the fourth time in two years. In all, she had been away from Harvard for the better part of her junior and senior years, studying for four months of her junior year abroad in Italy, where she also took vacations during her senior year. This was partly wanderlust, partly a long-distance relationship and partly survival. She was, she says, ''burned out'' by pressures in college: the grueling work, continuing health problems and a lingering feeling that some of her peers judged her -- for being a loud, proud native of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even as he publicly remains coy about his political future, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has quietly approached some of the city's most powerful media figures to assess whether their publications would endorse a bid to overturn New York City's term limits, which could clear a path for him to run for re-election next year. Over the last several weeks, Mr. Bloomberg has held confidential conversations with Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation, which owns The New York Post; Mortimer B. Zuckerman, owner of The Daily News; and Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company, to gauge their views on the issue, according to people familiar with the talks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Carrying two handguns and a Bible, a retired city police officer was killed in a gunfight early Tuesday on a residential street in Staten Island by former colleagues who returned his fire, the authorities said. When the shooting ended, the officer, Jason Aiello, 36, was slumped at the wheel of a cousin's truck on the street in front of his home in the Rosebank neighborhood, with his wife, Rachel, sitting next to him, officials said. His three young children were in another family car across the street. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that 18-year-old Khiel Coppin was recently shot dead in a police encounter in New York City. It is stated that Coppin was shot outside his home as he falsely posed his hairbrush to be a gun. It is mentioned that 5 police officials who were involved in the encounter of Coppin had never shot at anyone before in their entire carrier.

The article reports on the growing house burglaries in the residential areas of Staten, New York State. It is believed that the burglaries have been committed by one man on a crime spree that began on January 19, 2007, and lasted for five weeks. Help from the residents of the area has been sought by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.

The article reports that Natavia S. Lowery, personal assistant to real estate broker Linda Stein, was charged with second-degree murder for using a piece of exercise equipment to beating Stein to death. Lowery told detectives she used a yoga stick to hit Stein several times in the back of the head. According to Lowery, she was treated poorly by Stein and beat her on October 30, 2007 after she made a racially demeaning remark towards her.

The article focuses on the growing population of prisoners serving life sentences in the U.S. Lifers are not provided with free lawyers to pursue their cases in federal court. Scores of lifers interviewed expressed their despondency. More than one in four will never even see a parole board. The nation's governors have all but stopped commuting life sentences. In many states, lifers have no way out. The number of lifers continues to grow. Prosecutors and representatives of crime victims applaud the trend. Others, including some death penalty supporters, have concerns.

There were five young men in all, waiting on a street corner in the Bronx on Monday -- two on bicycles, two with guns, and all with a specific target in mind: a 19-year-old rival who was inside a bodega. As the target emerged, police officials said, a street version of ''hot potato'' unfolded: a .40-caliber pistol went from one set of hands to another, settling with the youngest among them: Carvett Gentles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Omar J. Edwards's mother did not like the idea of her son becoming a police officer. But he joined the New York Police Department anyway, nearly two years ago. Then he fell in love and married a woman whose father had been an officer in one of the tougher precincts in Brooklyn. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The first hints of something strange at Apartment 4D came one night last May: Someone jabbed at Jason B. Holt's front door with metal tools, just a month after he moved in. He leaped from his bed, banged on the door from the inside, heard a voice say, ''Hey,'' and then listened to the footsteps as someone fled down the hallway. An hour later, someone stole the door lock's cylinder. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Apparently distraught over being removed from a school in the Bronx, a veteran teacher barricaded himself inside a classroom at the school on Friday morning, claiming that he had planted a bomb in the library and threatening to blow it up, the authorities said. About 1,200 students were evacuated, and within three hours, police officials escorted the teacher from the building and said his bomb claim had been false. The man, Francisco Garabitos, 55, has been a teacher in New York City's school system since 1981, and has been teaching computer classes for three years at New Millennium Business Academy Middle School, where he was also the chapter leader for the city's teachers' union. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As Philip Markoff, the medical student charged with murder, sat in a jail here, the top law enforcement official in Rhode Island said Wednesday that investigators there had ''promising information'' about a robbery attempt in which Mr. Markoff is a prime suspect. Patrick Lynch, Rhode Island's attorney general, said there was more work to do in building a solid case. His office is working with the police to determine whether Mr. Markoff held a woman at gunpoint last Thursday in her room at the Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, R.I., and demanded money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]