admin Tallahassee Overrich
Florida’s edict on lecture rooms is sporting skinny with some college board members. | March 3
Extreme entry to our faculties at Tallahassee is outstanding and inconsistent with the conservative values of home guidelines or native management. These had been additionally the values and resolutions of Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and different Founding Fathers after they debated and determined that faculties must be domestically pushed and distinctly nonpartisan. In response to my analysis, the explanation they felt that approach (and that is nonetheless true right now) is that many of the college students who attend our faculties both stay in or return to our communities, so the group is essentially answerable for figuring out what is required from graduates. due to. Political events and right now’s focus will destabilize our schooling system. We’re positively seeing their prognosis unfold throughout Florida.
laura Hein, st petersburg
The writer is the Vice-Chair of the Pinellas County Board of Training.
Extra punishment please
630,000 gallons of uncooked sewage spilled into the Hillsborough River. | March 3
Tampa seems to have already got some type of “faucet water” from the Hillsborough River, which is presently the first supply of our ingesting water. I perceive that TECO will flip off prospects for non-payment, however should not the utility know the place the pumping station is positioned? Would not it make sense for property homeowners with pumping stations on their premises to demand computerized funds? Regardless of the punishment, it must be a lot increased.
CM Allison, Tampa
Cruising with COVID
Florida continues to be studying arduous COVID classes | EDIT, 7 Feb.
I simply returned from a 10-day cruise in Miami as a result of I wasn’t feeling effectively. Sure, I examined constructive for COVID-19 as a result of cruise ships and all companies are prohibited in Florida from requiring proof of vaccinations. We’re totally vaccinated, however plainly everybody else will not be. Because of the Governor’s assure, we will cruise with COVID and be free to contaminate others.
Tony Reisner, Tarpon Springs
Florida’s downside
Free will not be free | letter, March 5
the letter author Loss It ends with Gov. Ron DeSantis dressing up as libertine and saying “Worse: Greater than half of Florida appears to agree.” no approach. Almost half of Florida did not vote (54% voter turnout) because of dysfunctional Democrats. DeSantis obtained 4.6 million votes. of those that voted. Nevertheless, there are 14.5 million registered voters. Most of Florida both disagrees with him or would not care. That is Florida’s downside.
Terry Beninkasa, palm harbor
