I hope for Florida
Lawmakers summon Florida Attorney General for DeSantischarity Probe | April 15
Why does Gov. Ron DeSantis refuse to answer basic questions about “charity” that his wife, Casey DeSantis, runs? The governor will not answer valid questions. Instead, he attacks the representative to ask them. Is this good leadership? If Gov. Desantis has nothing to hide and all the transactions were on the board, why wouldn’t he answer the question? I hope Republicans continue their investigations without being threatened by DeSantis’ ridiculous attacks on them.
Elizabeth Belcher, Sefner
Follow the money
Tracking $10 Million from Hope Florida | April 13th
Times Reporter Lawrence Lawmower is extremely grateful for becoming like a boned dog after $10 million was paid to Hope Florida. The light is finally shining in its contribution, and it doesn’t look pretty.
Kara Rebel in St. Petersburg
Sales tax rate
This is Florida Home, Senate’s budget and tax cut position | April 11th
I think it would be better to lower the state’s sales tax rate as much as you want to save on property taxes. Yes, it will benefit tourists. But why is that a bad idea? Don’t we want more tourists to visit and spend their money in our state?
Additionally, sales tax reductions will directly benefit all Florida residents, whether they own their own home or rent a home or apartment. It is important to remember that many renters can only rent because prices are rising and they can’t afford to compete with businesses that snap their homes and turn them into rentals at inflated prices. In addition to reducing sales taxes, we really want to reduce the abolition of sales tax on more important things like clothing and shoes.
Carolyn Clema, new Port Richie
Our dangerous streets
Too many people cross Tampa Bay Street. Here’s how to stop it: |Column
Graham Brink and Jim Burfulst’s outstanding line on physical dangers was brought to pedestrians by moving the vehicle thoroughly and quantitatively defining the problem. However, there is one point that has not been fully mentioned. It’s a distracted pedestrian.
As a road bike rider often on the road, to go to the Pinela Trail, I often have to stop suddenly due to pedestrians glued to my smartphone. There are cars that hypnotize their devices down, notice their ignorance around them, ignore the red light, or look either way, adjusting the road, approaching them. Often they glaze approaching drivers and sometimes display single-finger hand gestures with a prominent display, but they don’t realize that their bodies can’t compare to the energy of an average-sized SUV moving at 25 mph.
We definitely have a very dangerous pedestrian problem, but everyone needs to be on common sense and vigilance.
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Albert C. Hein, Seminole
More tickets
Too many people cross Tampa Bay Street. Here’s how to stop it: |Column
I regularly run through pedestrian crossings, lights flashing, speeding up the school zone, running red lights, spinning at intersections and stopping school buses without bringing the right to pedestrians. Some local drivers don’t have the attention skills and don’t seem to understand or care about respecting basic traffic laws. First of all, too many drivers have phones in their faces, piloting deadly weapons. I hate to say this, but I hope that law enforcement will spend more time enforcing school zones and pedestrian intersections while finding ways to re-educate people about the requirements for owning a driver’s license.
Kurt M. Clotz, Lago
There are no choices or choices
The Florida community is thinking about removing fluoride from the water | April 3rd
The letter writer compared fluoride to vitamin B12. This says they won’t force you to put it in your water and consume B12. However, the writers were unable to realize that although our food supply has many sources of B12, the same does not apply to fluoride. And why does the choice only apply to this question? Other healthcare situations probably should have the right to make.
Carlos J. Desisros, Tampa
