Voice of the Reader policy and contact details
Editorial policy for letters to the Voice of the Reader includes a 250 word limit, signature requirement with hometown, verification telephone, and rights to edit. Publisher Dennis DeRossett and Editor James Bennett are named contacts, with submission methods by mail, fax, and email.
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Privacy erosion in the information age and call for stronger protections
The piece argues that privacy is vanishing as data trails grow from traffic tickets to online habits. It urges stronger government and corporate safeguards, calls for bans on spyware, secure handling of laptops, and higher fines for data breaches, while noting 7 million identity theft victims in 2003 and ChoicePoint breaches affecting 145,000 Americans.
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ChoicePoint
Congress
Readers Protest ECHO leadership and Rapture columnists
Marcus Garner a 2006 Project ECHO graduate writes as a former student government representative defending ECHO’s supportive environment and criticizing interim regional superintendent Ronda Baker. The letter condemns media attention seeking and defamation of Barry Kohl’s administration. Across additional text, readers discuss Lebanon war coverage, evangelical Rapture rhetoric, and opinions on Ann Coulter and Molly Ivins.
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Ronda Baker
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Barry Kohl
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Middle East
Israel
Congress
After Castro, what becomes of the exile Cuban community
Leonard Pitts Jr. argues the Cuban American exile community faces identity and purpose questions after Fidel Castro’s health worries and potential death. The piece weighs whether exiles can remain cohesive without a unifying foe, and what roles they will play in a post Castro Cuba and in mainstream American society.
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Miami Herald
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Cuban America
Elian Gonzalez
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