It is with real interest that I watched the plight of Iraqis moving to the United States. I work in a school with a small population of Iraqis in Louisiana, and I always marvel at their resiliency and their work ethic. I wonder if Iraqis who wish to come to the US might do well in the New Orleans area. We have a lower unemployment rate that the rest of the country due to recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Also due to Katrina, we have approximately 65,000 damaged houses. I would love to see an innovative approach to immigration in which Iraqis relocate in New Orleans and are given assistance in rehabilitating a blighted house. While some of our customs here in Southern Louisiana might be odd to Iraqis, New Orleans has a three hundred year proven track record of being able to welcome new immigrants and make them New Orleanians.

I found your 11/10 feature on the 40th anniversary of "Sesame Street" both amusing and frustrating. The two "experts" told us how "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" were the only daytime shows aimed at kids. Perhaps you need slightly older experts. I recall "Howdy Doody," "Captain Video," "Tom Corbet, Space Cadet," "Kookla, Fran & Ollie," "Soupy Sales," a whole flock of kid's-type westerns, "Captain Kangaroo," and "Mickey Mouse Club." I'm sure there are some I haven't mentioned. And those were only the national shows. There were also a lot of locally-produced shows. Surely some of them were still around when "Sesame Street" came on the scene.

Your coverage of the massacre at Fort Hood has not been intellectually honest and has ignored the real and inconvenient questions the massacre raises. The News Hour first portrayed the killings as the consequensce of stress on a combat fatigued US Army. PBS never once mentioned that Major Hassan was a muslim. It belabored combat fatigue in spite of the fact that at that time the killer was reported to have had one or two accomplices - which gives the presumption of a plot, not stress. The coverage was almost surreal inits attempt to re-shape the facts. Today Gwen Ifill interviewed two reporters and never asked a question central to understanding what happened - did the pursuit of political correctness blind the US Army to the numerous indications that Major Hassan was a security risk. Idealists prefer to see the world as they wish it were. But reporters must report the world as it is - ugly or not. They must deal with inconvenient questions and perhaps inconvenient truths. Reporting is not wishful thinking. Your reporting has done a disservice to your listeners.