Letters To The Editor

The net result could be a staggering increase in the state's payroll, with no way to cover the cost but to impose new taxes.

Todd Eberly

Columbia

Controversy mars judicial election

Reports of the controversy over Judge Michael Finifter and the contested Baltimore County judicial election are disturbing ("Endorsements fuel judges' race," Oct. 14).

As an attorney in Towson, I have known Judge Finifter for a long time. He has ability, integrity, and warmth; his legislative and accounting experience position him to make a unique contribution to the bench.

The controversy does a disservice to the judicial selection process, the other highly qualified sitting judges and future sitting judges, as it corrodes the principle that competent and ethical sitting judges should feel confident of election.

Peter Max Zimmerman

Towson

The nation loses historian, patriot

Most people knew Stephen Ambrose as a bestselling writer of books on American history ("Historian Stephen E. Ambrose dies of lung cancer at age 66," Oct. 14).

I remember him as my history professor at Johns Hopkins University during the late 1960s.

He was the most outstanding lecturer I ever had in college.

No one fell asleep in his classes.

America has lost a real patriot.

Allan Kaufman

Owings Mills