Editorial
Use Technology, Forget How To Spell, Survey Says
      According too a story in a daily noose source, a survey buy a cable television network indicates that Moor then 25 percent of adults poled end more tan 20 percent f children said they didn't think they kneaded to bee able two spell. Spell check has eliminated the need to no how to reed a dictionary, or even a map, the respondents claim.
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Driving Resolution
To The Editor:
      Ecclesiastes admonishes us: "There is a time to love". My time to rejoice in this exhortation comes at 2:30 every afternoon when I hop into my car and drive 10 miles to pick up my two grandchildren from the school bus. Every day I eagerly look forward to this familial reunion with my grandtots.
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Praises Penner
To The Editor:
      While I, Sylvia Bailen, only aspire to be the Maureen Dowd of Bayside, Larry Penner has already reached literary heights in all matters that are pertinent to citizens of Queens, indeed for all. So yes, he is again to be applauded for his recent detailed epistle as to the importance of the availability of continued information sources from Albany. His detailed argument is convincing and solid.
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Housing Omissions
To The Editor:
      With the greatest of interest, I just read the latest issue of the Gazette, and again, it presented very important news that has a profound impact upon the quality of life and safety in our area.
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Help The Homeless
      To The Editor: As I picked up one of our regional newspapers I was disturbed to see on the front page a homeless man and titled, "Million Dollar Bum". Now I was appalled that this man is being sued by Karl Kemp who owns an antique shop on Madison Avenue and has filed a milliondollar lawsuit demanding the vagrant leave from the sidewalk in front of his shop.
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School Orientation
A copy of the following letter was received by the Gazette
      Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg City Hall New York, NY 10007 Dear Mayor Bloomberg: We commend you on reaching a contract agreement with the UFT in record time. One issue that Presidents' Council of District 26 feels is of utmost importance is a uniform instituting of a Back to School Orientation.
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Op-ed
Super Bowl Offers Goal Achievement Celebration
BY THOMAS A. BOWDEN
      As half the nation eagerly awaits the kickoff of the Super Bowl, the other half looks on in wonderment. What could be so enthralling about grown men running up and down a field carrying an oblong ball? Football fans who cannot articulate why they feel such passion for the game may retreat to their television sets feeling a vague sense of guilt that perhaps they are wasting their time.
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