Reporter Lisa Huriash’s news article about a possible transfer of the Richard C. Sullivan Public Library of Wilton Manors, a small city library, to the county library system quotes Wilton Manors City Commissioner Chris Caputo as saying the size of the county’s collection dwarfs the smaller library’s offerings.
According to the commissioner, this differential will benefit the smaller city’s residents by giving them access to a larger network.
That is a misleading statement. Thanks to the county main library’s generous arrangements with smaller cities, Wilton Manors residents can already obtain free library cards to access the larger system’s services. Wilton Manors residents are already being served by the county.
By keeping the Wilton Manors library, which reflects a uniquely diverse population, commissioners help protect the city from anti-diversification measures that have become the hallmarks of current state and federal political climates.
Anne Bellissimo, Wilton Manors
Leave the ‘trinity’ alone
Re: Hypocrisy by Fort Lauderdale’s ‘holy trinity,’ Editorial, April 19
Opinion Editor Steve Bousquet seems relentless toward Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis and Commissioners Steve Glassman and Ben Sorensen for their rejection of two nominees to the city Planning and Zoning Board.
Yet we heard not a peep when Sun Sentinel staff writer Susannah Bryan reported on Commissioner John Herbst’s outside employment as the CFO of an apparel company owned by the city’s biggest development partner at the Bahia Mar resort.
Bousquet is a hypocrite. If the three city officials he continues to criticize were discovered to be on the developer’s payroll, he would have immediately asked for their resignations and tarred and feathered them.
Nothing personal, but because it involves Herbst and the political consultant Judy Stern, he shamefully remains silent. Let’s get off this bandwagon.
Richie Baptista, Fort Lauderdale
It’s not his father’s GOP
I thank my Dad for his honesty, patriotism and service in World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps. I remember his integrity, loyalty, intelligence and his intolerance of ignorance, stupidity, carelessness and sadism.
A good Republican, he was proud of President Eisenhower. He would not abide today’s Republican Party. He would be so tired of the B.S., gaslighting, cruelty, incompetence, stupidity, misogyny and racism. Fear and hate, and weakness instead of strength. MAGA mini-mind ministers and others voted in a king, or a dictator. This is misogynist stupidity at the lowest level, ignorant of our own history.
The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment inherited from Europe that birthed our nation has been replaced by the superstitious, putrid and perverse, self-loathing, medieval flagellations of the inquisition, and to magnify its ignorance, fear and hatred, it has been fed the steroids of money, media and power. The real Magnificat of the spirit and the soul, that yearns for truth and justice, has been turned upside down in the devil’s mockery.
Men such as Leonard Leo, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk could be the nails in America’s coffin. Let’s push back!
Steve Mento, Boca Raton
Save the planet
We’re privileged to live on Earth. The planet has everything: water, air, fire and soil, which sustain us with food. Earth has awesome beauty. But through the many changes by humans, we have caused environmental terror, which we are experiencing.
We need to take care of our environment and not just think of money. Stand up and fight for the right thing, and not make Earth worse.
Donna Rice, Boynton Beach
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