Bring again golf to West End
David Whitley’s humorous column in The Sun in Aug. 18 factors out the want for more golf programs in Gainesville.
The West End Golf Club had a worthwhile golf course till the out-of-town proprietor determined to let it get run all the way down to be offered to an out-of-town developer, claiming golf was useless. Golf shouldn’t be useless; in actual fact, golf has gotten more in style in the final three years.
Alachua County would discover, if the zoning stays recreation, that the property could possibly be a nine-hole, lighted, fairly priced course. This course could be particularly suited for instruction, senior golfers and a fast recreation for all ages and talents. Add a driving vary and a clubhouse/sports activities bar and the West End golf course not solely would survive however thrive.
Join the West End Community Alliance for Recreation and Education (WECARE) and Friends of West End (FOWE) to maintain the golf course property zoning leisure.
Stephanie Phillips, Newberry
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Respect for lecturers
Gov. Ron DeSantis disrespects the coaching, information and experience lecturers have. He needs to provide people with no educating background a $4,000 bonus after which one other $1,000 bonus to show in a scarcity space. Could he acknowledge and reward lecturers who’ve expertise and experience? Would a returning instructor be given the identical bonus?
Why not enable retired lecturers to return again and proceed to take their pension (which needs to be more than it’s) and in addition obtain a starting instructor wage with that bonus? That would honor the years of service to our nation these skilled lecturers have given our state and supply college students with actual professionals.
Why not give lecturers an hour to plan their classes as New Jersey does? Then they might plan classes that meet the wants of the college students they train.
As a Florida licensed instructor and a Nationally Board Certified Teacher who taught in New Jersey, Florida, Scotland and China, I hope sometime Florida will respect lecturers and honor them as they deserve. Then, I’d contemplate returning to the classroom to show on this state.
Karen White Porter, Newberry
Green goals
The Democrats are celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Despite patting themselves on the again, it’ll have little impact in curbing inflation.
They are additionally celebrating the spending of $369 billion for low-carbon know-how. This can have no impact on international warming as a result of no matter the USA does can be overwhelmed by what the remainder of the world does or doesn’t do.
Some economists suppose passing more big spending payments throughout an inflation disaster is unwise. Spending on inexperienced goals has a foul historical past. Think Solyndra, one in all President Barack Obama’s inexperienced failures. The federal authorities has a really unhealthy report as a enterprise capitalist
Joe Biden’s assault on the oil trade and the struggle in Europe have reduce provides and elevated costs. There are some ugly surprising penalties of this, like the big rise in inflation.
China, India and far of Africa are growing their fossil gas utilization to boost many out of poverty and/or to replace their economies. There is not any straightforward strategy to get to a low CO2 setting from the place we are actually. Some scientists and physicists say the greatest manner most likely is with more nuclear reactors
Nowadays, constructing something more complicated than a rooster coop would take a few years. The greens are even having bother sighting photo voltaic panel and windmill farms, which many need however need elsewhere. Classic NIMBY!
Jonathan Berger, Gainesville
Double normal
There’s not a MAGA rally the place the attendees don’t nonetheless chant, “Lock her up!” For a year-and-a-half, Hillary Clinton was completely investigated and exonerated for attainable mishandling of top-secret, categorized authorities data on her private e-mail server. That investigation was spearheaded by Donald Trump, the MAGAs, the Republicans and Fox News.
But now that Trump is being investigated for comparable unlawful actions, Trump, the MAGAs, Republicans and Fox News are calling it a political witch hunt and demanding that Trump’s hand-picked FBI director, Christopher Wray, be fired and the FBI defunded.
What if Clinton did what Trump did? What if she left public workplace and illegally eliminated high secret, extremely categorized paperwork and refused to return them, for over a yr, regardless of quite a few negotiations and even a subpoena? What would Fox News and the Republicans be saying? You know, don’t you? They’d be calling for at the very least a lifetime in jail.
Ted Quinn, Alachua
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