European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 21 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside census should be Agenda free the Watertown daily times the next census wont be until but already special interest groups Are lining up to get their place on the questionnaire that every american household will be asked to Complete and return three years from the 2000 census brought complaints about the Overly intrusive nature of the Long form sent to 19 million the 53question form asked americans about their socioeconomic housing indoor employment status and How they get to it went far beyond the and Only requirement for conducting a census every 10 years for the purpose of re apportioning congressional the Long form will no longer be in a Shorter form will be sent to All households asking about the race and ethnicity of All their relationship to the head of the household and whether the House is owned or the decision has raised objections from some groups that had come to rely on the eco nomic and social data provided by the Long special interest groups have also used the census to Advance their cause and gain political clout when seeking government action or the census Bureau should resist pres sure to expand its 2010 keep it to the Basic information needed to do what the census was intended letting rap take the rap South Florida fort Lauderdale Don Imus did More than blow up his Ca reer and offend Black women across Ameri Ca with his three word assault on the rut Gers women basketball he unwittingly launched an open especially among Black on How to address the overabundant use of racist and misogynistic words in popular most notably in rap debate yielded some action at the highest Levels of the Industry when iconic rap Mogul Russell Simmons described to and the word As extreme curse words and called on rappers to ban them from their the pronouncement int going to save the world by it wont do much to arrest the free flow of offensive spewing that some believe allowed Imus to think he had License he didst to Call Star College basketball players Nappy headed but any sea change starts when someone of note takes a so coming frown the founder of def Jam the reputed ceo of the Call is both noteworthy and coming just a week after saying artistic expression must be protected against Cen Simmons is being accused of his Likely run far deeper than rap sales have been in a free fall since Accord ing to the Washington and raising the genres stature May very Well be about to help Black follow plan Star Tribune Minneapolis Check most statistics comparing Blacks and Whites in and youll find too Many Black boys and men prickly City by Scott Stantis Sarfe while the number of Black men earning College degrees has quadrupled since the the number growing up in disadvantaged circumstances has also that latter group has led to a crisis among Young Black males that threatens the entire according to the National Urban leagues state of Black America 2007 according to the Black men Are More than twice As Likely to be unemployed As White in the work Black males on average earn Only about 75 percent of what their White male counter parts Blacks Are nearly seven times More Likely to go to and their average sentences tend to be 10 months to address these the National civil rights group suggests greater emphasis on approaches we have Long among them Are expanded opportunities for Early childhood More experimentation with Al male longer school Days and mentoring and addition Al second Hance programs for High school dropouts and the group also places responsibility on Black communities and the re port says adults must constantly reinforce the value of a Good to help a risk Black boys and men reach their full productive such efforts Merit much More Why Iraq timetable is Tricky the Rocky Mountain Denver if the polls Are right and they Proba Bly Are most americans agree with con Gress that this country should begin with drawing combat troops from Iraq by 1 with a goal of removing most of them by next but leadership sometimes re quires ignoring As president Bush did last the president argues that the timetables in the democrats War funding Bill could hamstring prosecution of the Iraq Hes and he was on equally firm ground when he vetoed the Mea make no mistake were not suggesting americans should be willing to endure year after year of deadly attrition in Iraq without any sign of an the Point is this no matter when the decision is made to begin even if it were this any timetable should be both flexible and Congress should give David Petrae us the Chance it implicitly promised him when he was confirmed As commander in Bush and the Congress should come to a cognizant that the timetable on Iraq that matters most May be the 2008 its ire 5 i dont cover the facts in smog the Star Ledger of Newark the amount of pollution spewed in the air has dropped by More than half since the United states began stepping up efforts to fight smog in those cuts occurred even As americas population grew 46 per cent and the nations Energy and vehicle use Rose but the hard won Progress will be choked off if the Bush administration gets its a new Rule proposed by the Epa last month would produce More dirty air by redefining How Power Plant smog is Mea the result would be old plants run Ning longer and polluting sending More dirty air to new the proposed new Rule is a shameless at tempt to bypass two recent supreme court one coming in recent rejecting looser air pollution the Epa is trying to sell the new Rule by saying it will just make electricity production More not Worsen National air but the Agency admits pollution could increase in some a glance at the american lung associations recent annual review of air Quality shows the magnitude of the the Epa should look at those take a deep breath and drop its pro Pollut or Rule Green Light to Tva Power plan the Decatur daily with global warming now a worldwide the Federal government should take renewed interest in the Tennessee Val Ley authority because of its Green Power still in its the Green Power switch program is Selling a record amount of renewable Power and May soon reach its capacity that because people in the Tennessee Valley Are concerned about global acid rising fuel costs and having enough the program offers Power in blocks of 150 kilowatt which is about 12 per cent of an average households monthly the Cost is slightly higher than traditionally generated the program is generating Only 37 megawatts of tvs but it is significant because the program is demonstrating to the nation the practicality of Green Tva was a government Experiment in pulling the Tennessee Valley out of a Primi Tive lifestyle while it created jobs and recreation on a scale that few people could imag Ine when president Franklin Roosevelt signed the legislation during the great de Congress is one Way each of us can help with clean ing up the environment and stopping Glo bal warming is to join the Green Power switch Kucinich took a wrong turn the Norwalk Ohio reflector there Are Many reasons to run for presi some run to raise their some Hope to get a Cabinet some even want to be some do it to raise issues and improve the this last group deserves our thanks and sadly front runners can not always be relied on to discuss the important important issues Are almost by def dangerous therefore the Safe play for any front runner is to stay away from the big stuff and stick with vague platitudes about How the children Are our As if anyone would Dis right one of these Issue raising candidates is Dennis when the distinguished gentleman from the great state of Ohio insists on pulling stunts like calling for the impeachment of Dick he is less the conscience of the and More its we urge Kucinich to mend his ways and use what Little time in the limelight he has to better the affairs of this dont elevate horses status the Goshen in a 277137 House members voted to bar the Bureau of land manage ment from Selling off for Slaughter wild horses or Burros that make Western Public lands the House action would re store a 1971 Law that was voided three years the Senate Sci ence and transportation committee approved a Bill that would ban horse Slaugh Ter at the National strict vegetarians May have a leg to stand on in the horse Slaughter other opponents need to reevaluate their americans tend to View horses As com Panion horses also enjoy lofty Sta Tus thanks to popular culture chowing Down on a serving of trigger or Black Beauty to an unpleasant culinary but horses Arent intrinsically better or More Noble than Chick ducks or Deer in other Ani Mals routinely eaten with few qualms by the meat eating nor is killing them for food any More or less legislators Are tasked to Deal with critical elevating certain segments of the animal kingdom in the food Chain  be one of it Doest make horse