The “Speak Your Piece” by Ren Lohoefener, Linda Goodman, and Ed Shepard (“Recovering the northern spotted owl: The road ahead,” May 20) is a masterpiece of government “spin” aimed at influencing public opinion. Their superficial description of the issues apparently is the Bush administration’s way of telling the public, in the words of the Great Oz, to “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”  Read more…