MELISSA BLOCK, Host: It's time for your comments. But, first, we do have one correction. Yesterday's story about a public spat among conservatives about raising taxes incorrectly identified Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss as a former member of President Obama's Bipartisan Deficit Commission. He was not a part of that commission. We apologize for the mistake.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: Now to your letters.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: That's not a baritone warming up, but a vocal rendition of Miami's housing boom and bust over the past decade.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: Planet Money's idea of taking the latest Case-Schiller home price index and turning it into song, or at least a string of musical notes, did not strike a chord with listener Tom Anice(ph) of Grinnell, Iowa. He write this: Seriously, we're fighting three wars, the economy is in the dumps but improving, Iowa caucuses are 280 days away. We've got 300 million people in this country with interesting stories and the best thing you can come up with is a bad soprano singing about Miami home prices? Whew, that was annoying.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: She continues. The representation of the numbers as musical notes finally registered in my brain as a real concept. I was finally able to take the information and make it mean something besides an abstract number.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: And Jersey City's Leticia Villalon had this to say. I loved the creative production for this piece. This story would've been just as interesting without the singer but not as memorable. Can you put music now to the projections of the budget, she asked.</s>MICHELE NORRIS, Host: Sounds like a good idea. We appreciate your comments and keep those letters coming. You can write to us by visiting NPR.org. Just click on Contact Us at the bottom of the page.
Michele Norris and Melissa Block read emails from listeners about the Case-Shiller home price index.