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Sarasota News Leader November 22, 2013 OPINION Page 88 Commentaries, on the other hand, are the recommends apartheid, it is disingenuous to opinions only of the authors and might not feign surprise. reflect the opinion of the publication. And it adds fatuity to folly to then maintain That, of course, includes the author of this that, despite the obvious prejudices, it still humble column. If something written here is objectionable to you, the only person respon- can render an impartial plan for desegregation if it is asked specifically to do so. sible is yours truly. I also would be remiss if I did not point out that we scrupulously maintain a "firewall" between our news reporting and our Opinion section. In fact, we are committed to ensuring that one will never find even a hint of bias anywhere in our publication except in the opinion section, where it is appropriate. The public is not served when news is not accurately and impartially reported, and our mission is always to protect the integrity of that reporting. The County Commission's bungling of this Laffer Associates debacle, including its continued insistence that Donna Arduin and her cronies will provide any semblance of an impartial, defensible analysis of our 2050 Plan, insults the intelligence of every citizen of Sarasota County. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "If a free society cannot help the many who 'GIVE US A BREAK' DEPARTMENT: are poor, it cannot save the few who are If you hire the Ku Klux Klan to develop a racial rich." – President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, desegregation plan, and it offers a report that Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 % "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." — Thomas Jefferson FREE SUBSCRIPTION Don't have your own subscription to The Sarasota News Leader? Subscribe for FREE and receive a weekly notification when the latest issue is available online.