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Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Education! A disaster? Public School Review cites the failures of our system. Among them are; academic decline — lowest reading and math results in more than three decades.  Lowering standards have only encouraged lower performance. Students regress further since there ...

To the editor: The Friends of the Pine Island Library encourage you to join us in a brand new activity this season, an Historic Bike Tour of the north end of Pine Island. We will begin the tour at 9 a.m. on Jan. 30 at the library at 10701 Russell Road, Bokeelia. Arrive with your bicycle and ...

Research health care claims

To the editor: Secretary of Health and Human services Robert Kennedy Jr. has issued many controversial health care decisions. He has no medical training or scientific training. Do not believe everything that is stated on TV.  It is essential to seek information from credible sources when ...

Are you ready for the coming cuts to Medicaid?

To the editor: Are you prepared if your relative is discharged from a health care facility?  The federal budget cut $880 billion to Medicaid over the next 10 years, significantly affecting the healthcare in Lee County, particularly impacting nursing homes. Many residents  are soon to ...

To the editor: The Calusa Land Trust was invited to participate in PIE’s first ever STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) Event on Dec. 19 for an hour in the evening.  We were delighted to share information about gopher tortoises as a keystone species on our preserves. Students could ...

Unraveling fact from fiction

To the editor: Some recent contributions to the Eagle’s “Letters to the Editor” have expressed comments that may have been perceived as facts rather than opinions and as such laid out incorrect assessments of our U.S. Department of Education’s recent declassification of professional ...