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The Editors
There is news on BBC radio output, BBC online and teletext. There is more time given to news than anything else so what is the point of more news. Could it be to reduce the length of prime time shows and save money? I hope this bulletin will replace the endless self advertising between programmes that has got completely out of control. You refer to research. Please can we see the questions and responses to understand how you got the answer you wanted. BBC News should be about content before presentation. Take an example from today headlined 'Olympics could cost more'. It turns out that a report gives a 20% chance that the budget will be exceeded. That means an 80% chance the budget will be met. Do you think your headline is fair and informative? Why not write headlines about anything that could happen? 'BBC licence fee could double'.
Airport screeners get no respect
Light, professor of public policy at New York University, said he's not surprised that TSA and the IRS are tied for low public esteem.
Yet he defended TSA as misunderstood, because it's highly visible yet can't brag about its successes. "It's an agency that's damned if it does, damned if it doesn't," Light said.
TSA responds to every complaint it receives, said spokeswoman Ellen Howe, adding that each complaint is forwarded to the federal security director at the airport in question.
In the cases AP reviewed, the most common response was a form letter, apologizing for inconveniences, often blaming the problem of long lines on the local airport and forwarding complaints about inappropriate patdowns to the airports where they occurred.
In May, TSA improved the way it handles complaints and now has a more accurate and complete database for them, Howe said.
A 30-foot gumbo-limbo tree makes its move from Marco to Naples ...
Also, to some extent it's a statement to the community that we're all about saving trees, “ he added. Holley said the cost of the move related almost equally to its age: “When you think about it, it's about $1,000 a year, “ he said. “The truth is, this tree looks like it's 75 to 100 years old. It's got great genes." It's also proof of the Florida gardener's adage that if you put a stick in the ground here it will grow. Claudia Curle and her late husband, Fred, received the founding branch from a handyman shortly after they built the Grapewood Court home in 1976. “It was kind of an educated planting. I'd seen other gumbo-limbo trees," she said, “At that point, we did much care. We were young and we needed landscaping. It was a lot, and we needed plantings." When the Wruckes were looking for another place for the tree, they contacted Curle's daughter, Chris Curle of Marco, who alerted the botanical garden.
Hinrich's gaffe is window to season
If historians ever need visual proof of the Bulls' early-season ineptitude, just place a DVD of an 81-second stretch from Tuesday night's second quarter into a time capsule.
In a play that doesn't happen often, Kirk Hinrich took off for a breakaway layup after picking up a loose ball from Joakim Noah's steal—and threw the ball away.
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