Sorry this is out late. The above was in The Orlando Sentinel Wednesday, April 15th. Oddly enough Tax Day.

The Sentinel wants the light rail. They have never cared who pays for it. They know private business refuses to pay for it becausee they have been vocal to say they know they can’t make any money from it. It’s a money loser. The private business, though, will take the tax dollars, make a mint of dough and then knowingly create a white elephant that the tax payer gets stuck with. They are just being capitalists.

So is the Sentinel. The difference: The Sentinel is supposed to have ethics and keep their opinions on the editorial pages. They just see add revenue and couldn’t care less otherwise. The photo to the left is of a pleasant looking Lee Constantine taking the Sentinel’s side. And then on the other side is an angry Paula Dockery now not taking the Sentinel’s side.

I should not be able to look at the cover of any newspaper with any journalistic ethics and see their political preferances. Yet here it is. I don’t want to see newspapers go away. But this kind of mess is almost worse.