Sad Update On Utah Mine Search

In a sad change of direction is less than a week, it is being reported that the search for the Utah coal miners is being suspended. This just days after promises were given to the families that the search would go on until the miners were found.

For nearly four weeks a mining community in central Utah held out hope that six men trapped in a coal mine cave-in would be found alive. That hope is gone now that federal mine officials have suspended the search for the men.

How devastating to the families. They haven't even finished checking all of the holes, but the robot camera somehow got stuck some 50 ft. from the top of hole four, and that is when they decided to end the search.

These poor families have been jerked one way and then another throughout this ordeal, and they deserve more respect than these officials are giving them. We can only hope that they reconsider this a second time, because just drilling holes and checking is not endangering anymore lives, it is merely costing more money, and that may be the true cause of the suspension. How sad that money, is always more important than the lives of miners, or peace of mind and closer for the families.

A very sad update indeed!


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2 Hawkeyes Suspended Indefinitely

In a disturbing story in the morning Hawkeye Update from the Iowa Press-Citizen it says that two University of Iowa football players have been suspended indefinitely following their arrest Sunday. Sophomore wide receivers Dominique Douglas and Anthony Bowman were taken into custody by University of Iowa Police. They were charged with unauthorized use of a credit card and were later released on their own recognizance.

What is wrong with these people? They have everything going for them, as is evidenced by the fact that Douglas led the nation in number of receptions by a freshman and started in 11 Hawkeye games. He was looked upon to have a great year this season and now, because someone did not teach him or Bowman right from wrong, they may have ended their careers, before they even had a chance to start, and may well end up in prison, if found guilty. They not only may have thrown away their sports careers, but their academic lives as well.

Perhaps some ethics training is in order for all incoming freshman, as well as for K-12 grades, because it is easy to see in the number of shoplifting arrests alone, made at the mall that many young people do not see stealing in many forms as being wrong. I was told by security that most of the time that they catch people stealing, that they have enough money on them, to pay for the item, but just choose to take it. I know this is a little afield from the story, but the ethics lapse is evident not in just their case, but in others as I mentioned about the mall "thieves", etc.,. "Everybody" wants to be a Gansta or a Thug and more is the pity.

It is possible that because Douglas and Bowman do not seem to have any other criminal records, or none that are known yet, they may get off with lesser sentences, and if they do, hopefully they will have learned a lesson of a lifetime, and can have more honest lives. We will keep watching as the case moves forward.

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