To the editor: As we often do, this past Sunday my husband Kiko and I took a walk in the beautiful Galt Preserve in St. James City. We love the serenity we feel there, and the communion with nature we always find. I usually take a bag, on the chance that we spot the odd piece of trash that ...
To the editor: The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 136 with the help of the Legionnaire Sons of the Legion, and the American Legion Riders donated $1,600 so our chairman for Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation, Kristen Petty, could buy hygiene supplies, kitchen supplies clothes for the ...
To the editor: Currently, there are 25 states that have higher death rate tolls than Florida per 100,000 from “COVID-19.” (Statista) Four of the five top deadliest states are controlled by Democratic governors and have endured severe, oppressive lockdowns which clearly have not ...
Approximately two years ago after Gov. DeSantis took office and replaced former Board members of the South Florida Water Management District that were closely aligned with the sugar industry, there was a great deal of hope and optimism that the new Board would provide the leadership to revive ...
To the editor: In response to the article, "Topics discussed at the Greater Pine Island Civic Association," Jan. 13, I was glad to read that someone with experience, a retired meteorologist, spoke out against the 110-foot Doppler radar tower WINK News wants to construct on our island. One of ...
To the editor: I have never written to a newspaper, television show, newscast or radio broadcast, but today I feel I need to express myself. Hold on to your britches...it’s all good. I am a retired physician and my wife’s a retired nurse (can be very critical at times) and today we ...
To the editor, What a hideous sight to see thugs storming our Capitol Building last week. In an open society that governs itself under the rules of law and order, order was not on display that day. I used to work in that building, the U.S. Capitol. For most of the 33 years I spent on the ...
Thank you to the many members who participated with us in trying to maintain the integrity of the federal wetland dredge and fill permitting process. However, on Dec. 17, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted the state of Florida the sole authority to permit dredge and fill requests ...
To the editor: We have now reached the grim point where more than one in every 1,000 Americans is dead of COVID, yet, the debate on following CDC guidelines for the safety of the public rages on. “One person’s rights end where another’s begin.” This is how we have historically ...
To the editor: The clock is ticking, literally. In cities around the world, such as New York, Berlin and Paris, giant clocks are reminding us the number of years we have left before climate change stops being a challenge and becomes a sentence, a death sentence. Over the years I’ve kept ...