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Mail Call for 3/12 Editor's note - Please be as brief as possible when calling Mail Call, The Daily Mail's reader call-in line. Mail Call is not staffed on weekends or holidays so it is best to call Mail Call during the week. The Mail Call number is 301-791-6236. You are welcome to leave a recorded message on any subject, but some calls will be screened out. Here are some of the calls we have received lately: "A lot of things in this country aren't fair.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Del. Craig Blair's bill to randomly drug test West Virginians who receive public assistance died Tuesday, but it has attracted national attention and interest from other state legislatures. And Blair, R-Berkeley, expects the legislation will be back next year. On a 70-30 vote Tuesday, the House rejected a motion by Blair to have House Bill 3007 discharged from the House Judiciary Committee, the Berkeley County Republican lawmaker confirmed. Judiciary Committee chairwoman Carrie Webster, who has questioned the bill's constitutionality and cost, did not allow the measure to be put on the agenda for consideration.

Editor's note: The Herald-Mail invites readers to answer poll questions on www.herald-mail.com. Readers also may submit comments when voting. A sampling of edited reader comments will run on The Herald-Mail's Opinion page on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. The question posted Friday on The Herald-Mail's Web site was: Do you think revelations about his sex life will cause viewers to turn away from David Letterman? Results: Yes, 230 votes (25.5 percent); No, 673 votes (74.5 percent)

Limbaugh promotes an extreme point of view To the editor: I would like to express my disappointment in The Herald-Mail's running of the David Limbaugh column several times a week. I feel a newspaper should present the facts in a nonpartisan manner, then help illuminate contentious issues by presenting various viewpoints. Ideally, this allows both sides to come to some kind of understanding, if not agreement, but it requires a willingness to talk across the divide with at least a modicum of civility and respect for other viewpoints.

HAGERSTOWN daniels@herald-mail.com As a young child growing up in Hagerstown, Kelly Wright remembers learning to swim at the Memorial Recreation Center, watching movies at the Boys & Girls Club of Washington County, and learning martial arts at the Hagerstown YMCA. During those formative years, Wright said he also learned the importance of giving back to the community through the actions of all those who offered him guidance, support and encouragement. "It taught me you've got to have a sense of something greater than yourself.

SMITHSBURG - A Smithsburg High School graduate will claim his status as a rock star tonight when his band, Course of Nature, performs in New York City's Times Square for New Year's Eve. Sean Kipe, 26, used to be a long-haired kid with a guitar, watching his favorite bands on MTV. He saw his favorite rock stars playing in front of thousands of people and knew he wanted to be a musician, he said. Kipe's only formal music training was playing the trumpet in elementary school.

Grace United Methodist Church, 712 Church St., Hagerstown, today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Rider Fellowship Hall, there will be craft tables with centerpieces, lots of fall and Christmas items, goodie tables with apple dumplings, homemade candies and homemade apple butter, along with sandwiches and homemade soups. Grace Bible Church, 2327 Hoffman Road, Greencastle, Pa., is hosting a ladies fall retreat today from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Speakers will be Samantha Jeffcoat, an evangelist's wife from Glen Burnie, Md., and Holly Aikens, principal of Emmanuel Christian School in Hagerstown and wife of the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Temple.