Considering what’s happening in the Gulf Coast, and that Grant County, in its usual let’s-help mode, is sending money and people down there (see related story link below), and with the federal government treading water in a swirling controversy over its response before and after Hurricane Katrina, this week’s opinion page focuses on the eye of the storm. What’s your opinion? (E-mail the Editor)

“We are assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and we will help the people of the Gulf Coast recover from adversity. To accomplish the difficult work ahead of us, our nation will call upon our vast resources and the ingenuity of our citizens, and these will be required in full measure. The citizens of the Gulf Coast can count on their fellow Americans in this time of trial, and their government is standing with them, as well.”

President George W. Bush

National radio address, Sept. 10