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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 8, 2009

Fans losing patience

I cannot help but feel badly for the Bucs' coaches and players. Their owners shop for them on the sales rack and in the bargain bins. After acquiring them at discount prices, they expect the team to be competitive in a league where, for many teams, talent and experience are a factor in determining whether they get the job and paid their salary.

The Glazers shouldn't assume the fans are behind them. After all, look at all the empty seats at each home game. So I suggest they get with the program or sell the team.

The fans, players and coaches deserve it.

JUDY HOUSER

Satellite Beach

Change jail policy
Re: "Inmates aid deputy under attack" (front page, Nov. 5): The wonderful part of this story is how prisoners did not hesitate to rescue 64-year-old Deputy Kenneth Moon.

The not-so-wonderful part raises a rather distressing and even amazing question: Why in the world was only one elderly, basically defenseless man overseeing, according to this story, literally dozens of men, many half his age, held on charges such as armed robbery, assault and attempted murder?

Surely it was not only me who found this to be almost incredible.

If this is policy and it is not changed, it is a tragedy just waiting to happen. Please, Sheriff Gee, fix this before it happens.

STEVE WEBB

Tampa

Hitting the road
Last Sunday my husband and I made the trip to Orlando on Interstate 4, a corridor known for accidents, to meet a friend. While there were places where traffic thinned out, in many areas it was almost bumper-to-bumper. And this was on a Sunday night.

This road has no "down time," and I have no wish to travel it, not even for the Disney attractions. When will the county commissioners and urban planners wake up and get rapid transit (rail) in here?

It would benefit Tampa, Orlando and everyone in between. Let's put our money where it won't be wasted by do-nothing officials or one more "task force."

NANCY E. MOORE

Riverview

Need more vision

Drilling for oil is a destructive enterprise that will endanger Florida's beaches and wild places while doing nothing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil or the cost to consumers. Rather than follow the advances toward energy independence pioneered three decades ago in California and adapted by forward-thinking leaders around the world, Florida languishes in the doldrums of an antiquated energy philosophy.

We have nothing to lose by encouraging better energy economy in our transportation, in our homes and offices, in our building technologies and in our daily lives. It requires vision and political will, both of which seem to be in short supply in Tallahassee and Washington these days.

MICHAEL MACDONALD

Clearwater

Athletes' dress code

A few years ago we had a high school administrator who wanted to prevent female volleyball players from wearing uniforms because they were too suggestive. He lost that argument.

Now our school system wants to direct the runners on how they should dress for training and contests. ("Feel the heat," front page, Nov. 5). It's totally ridiculous that our athletes should be subjected to such baseless decisions. Look around the state and the Southeast, and it is apparent that their thinking is flawed. That being the case, why not really enforce rules against pants being worn almost to the knees or the hip-huggers that are suggestive?

What's next? Swimmers wearing sweat suits during competition?

JOE VOSKERICHIAN

Tampa

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