Solution to go, Solar Sentinel, for calling out Gov. Ron DeSantis’ energy play to pressure the Legislature into particular session to plot pointless anti-immigration legal guidelines.
In 2018, DeSantis offered himself as a wiser incarnation of Donald Trump — and thus extra dependable to hold out Trump’s often-zany insurance policies. However DeSantis’ smugness made him unlikable, and voters kicked him to the political curb in favor of their favourite con-artist King of Nasty.
DeSantis described himself (with apologies to canines) as a “junkyard canine” prepared to maintain calling an unwilling Legislature again till they heel.
Say what you’ll about our embarrassing Legislature, however they discovered {that a} term-limited DeSantis is the proverbial canine that received’t hunt. In order that they one-upped him: As an alternative of adjourning with out motion, they handed their very own ridiculous, silly immigration regulation.
It’s a foul invoice. DeSantis shouldn’t signal it. However the Legislature despatched a message to DeSantis: Keep in your personal junk yard.
David Kahn, Boca Raton
East vs. west in Lauderdale
This considerations the Solar Sentinel article on Jan. 25 (“Revamped, new motels … loom as tourism catalysts for Broward in 2025″).
If you happen to drive west alongside any highway west of Northwest seventh Avenue, you will note blight, homelessness and empty storefronts.
The distinction to the “tourist-y” japanese a part of town is jarring. Is that this largely due to the pores and skin shade of the residents of the western elements of town? Simply one thing to think about.
Seth Wexler, Plantation
Reward for GEO Group
A current letter author, Richard Elliott, is sad with former state Rep. Adam Hasner as a finalist for president of Florida Atlantic College as a result of Hasner is govt vp of The GEO Group, which operates non-public prisons in Florida.
I’ve by no means met Hasner, and I’ve no reference to The GEO Group.
However I can inform you that Elliott has misinformed concepts about non-public prisons.
I’ve practiced legal regulation in Broward since 1991, each as a prosecutor and protection legal professional. In 2021, I wrote a column for the Solar Sentinel explaining how my shoppers who’ve hung out in Florida prisons invariably want GEO jail amenities to state-run prisons. They inform me GEO prisons have extra humane situations and higher academic packages.
Since 2021, I’ve continued to request GEO amenities for my shoppers sentenced to jail and so they constantly inform me that GEO establishments, similar to South Bay Correctional in Palm Seaside County, are much better than the “iron triangle” of state-run prisons in North Central Florida.
Gerard S. (Jerry) Williams, Southwest Ranches
Don’t broaden landfill
Permitting Waste Administration to broaden its Broward County landfill when it can not now comprise the leachates could be an ecological catastrophe for Florida.
I additionally want the Solar Sentinel would publish articles encouraging moms to cease utilizing disposable diapers — it’s an enormous a part of landfill issues in every single place. Fabric diapers with Velcro snaps are of top quality, and the financial savings could be large.
Jan Lloyd, San Pedro, Calif.
Voting no within the Pines
I don’t agree with the upcoming bond concern (“It’s time for Pembroke Pines taxpayers to chip in,” Solar Sentinel editorial, Jan. 10).
The gadgets on the listing to repair are static, and so they all should be performed. However I received’t vote sure.
Sorry, my vote is not any.
Margot Hummer, Pembroke Pines
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