DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: Now your comments. Guest host Howard Berkes received a lot of praise for his conversation with the new secretary of the interior, Dirk Kempthorne. This note from listener Dale Wall(ph) of Memphis, Tennessee was typical of the mail we received.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: He wrote, In his several attempts to get Kempthorne to answer a straightforward question about the propriety of hiring former lobbyists to fill positions regulating the industries for which they have previously worked, Berkes did everything but translate the question into Esperanto.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: In a time when both the U.S. government and the public seem to have forgotten who is supposed to be working for whom, it was nice to have an interviewer insist upon a cogent answer from a public servant.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: Listener Katherine Brown(ph) responded to our report about a Texas school district's plans to teach Bible studies in its public schools. Ms. Brown describes herself as a Northeastern transplant to Arlington, Texas. She wrote, It will be difficult to find a teacher in the South that can teach this subject without prejudice. The school would need a teacher with a scholarly understanding and without personal beliefs being spoken.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: We welcome your comments. To send them in, go to our Web site, NPR.org, click on Contact Us, and select WEEKEND ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Please include a phone number, tell us where you live, and how to pronounce your name.
Debbie Elliott reads from our listeners' letters. There is praise for Howard Berkes' interview with Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, and a question about how the South will handle Bible classes in public schools.