Letters to the Editor

From the issue of February 15, 2001

A A A Comments Thursday, Feb 15 2001

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Ambrose Sims
MiamiBlood Money
Coffin nails and the moral imperatives of free-market capitalism: Tell me, how can a paper that espouses (and often practices) such high principles, a paper that is willing to put itself on the line and risk offending the status quo here in South Florida, how can New Times still continue to carry cigarette (cancer) advertising on its pages?

Where are your principles? Or as it is with so many of the Miami-Dade officials you write about and expose, is money and profit the highest priority for you too?

Come on, New Times. It's time to reject all cigarette advertising in your paper.

Marshall Freedland
MiamiLitter Bug
Social responsibility and the detritus of free-market capitalism:I would like to propose a monthly trash pickup of old discarded copies of New Times that litter our beaches, sidewalks, and streets. Perhaps New Times would be willing to provide snacks or lunch to participants in the pickup. Those who take part would be lending a public service to affected areas while, at the same time, showing a common purpose.

I invite comment on this idea by New Times or any interested party -- I believe it to be sound in purpose and an instrument by which we can be brought closer together.

Alan Gittelson
North Miami