Incidentally, I was able to find online in about 90 seconds a 2010 Yellow Tail Chardonnay in a variety of stores ranging from under $5 to $6.33 in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, while the writer of the aforementioned article merely found that Pennsylvania, at $8, was cheaper than one New Jersey store.
Mark Squires
Philadelphia
School budget cuts' notable omissions
What a travesty. On the list of school budget cuts listed in an article Wednesday ("Philly school panel adopts 'interim' budget - with deep cuts"), there is not one cent of administrative pay cuts, increased health-care payments by employees, or any change to retirement plans.
Just how long do the people running the Philadelphia School District into the ground think the free ride on the backs of taxpayers can continue? In the meantime, they are condemning the kids to substandard education and continuing the city's ride to oblivion.
When will the city's residents wake up?
Tom News
Upper Chichester
Sex abuse in a society of users
Regarding the sexual-abuse crisis and the John Jay College for Criminal Justice report thereon ("The church blames society," May 24), this psychiatrist offers some thoughts.
From the left, we hear that sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church is fundamentally an issue of a flawed clerical culture resting on the faulty foundation of celibacy for both priests and nuns and abetted by their clueless leaders. They think that normalizing same-sex relationships and allowing priests and nuns to marry will solve the problem.
From the right, we hear those who say that the crisis is primarily a homosexual problem that incubates in the hothouse of a permissive seminary culture.
I say, "Yes, but . . ."
