Sunday morning is one of the best days of the week. While eating a wonderful breakfast, I read the local papers. Reading the Voices section is like that sore in your mouth you keep running your tongue over or that scab somewhere on your body that you know you should leave alone but you keep picking and picking until it starts to bleed. ...more

January 6, 2010

I am not given to writing letters to the editor but have felt compelled with a sense of urgency to respond to the accusations put forward recently by one of our Spring Lakes residents. Having served a little over nine years on the SLID board, my background is quite deep and I can without hesitation say that the current commissioners are not and do not intend to do anything that would be out of line financially or authoritatively on their watch. This is for the most part a thankless job and not a member of the board over the years as far as I know has ever undertook the job of soliciting votes to serve the Spring Lake Community for financial gain. If anything, there are times when I know a board member has requested themselves from voting on an issue that might have questionable ramifications. ...more

December 6, 2009

Strings attached I see Brian P. Moore is at it again in your letters to the editor on Dec. 3, trying to convince everyone how wonderful life would be like under socialism. ...more

December 5, 2009

It seems that the "Hate letters" letter of Sept. 18 slipped by Highlands Today's requirement of letters avoiding personal attacks on other letter writers. ...more

September 24, 2009

What great letters to the editor on Aug. 30! I share the thoughts of Terry Collins and Daniel Burke. Obama's health care plan is scary and I along with many others don't want it. Our families and friends in Massachusetts have never liked the "cruel" marks that Sen. Ted Kennedy left on the sands of time. ...more

September 6, 2009

In Sunday's letters to the editor, there were several addressing water conservation. None mentioned the wasted water caused by county building codes. ...more

April 14, 2009

Blame Bush Between your editorials and letters to the editor, a lot of people have been complaining about these United States becoming a socialist state and it being President Barack Obama's fault. ...more

April 1, 2009

With the reduction in revenue and property values during the current economic downturn, the Pasco County Commission will be required this summer to make some tough decisions as to what services we will offer next year, the level of service to be provided and how we will pay for those services. Based on letters to the editor, e-mails and one-on-one conversations with residents, we realize we need to do a better job of explaining to our citizens the budget decision process. ...more

March 29, 2009

Your editorial pages and the accompanying letters to the editor are starting to resemble cable TV, with its opinionated talking heads and manufactured outrage. It is as if half the people expect President Obama to be a miracle worker, and the other half-think he's no better than the last group. ...more

March 27, 2009

Gingerlee Prettymitchell's "Words of Wisdom" published March 17 in the letters to the editor are really "Words of Folly." We can't even call them words of knowledge for she is talking about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and claims Jefferson's words support them. ...more

March 20, 2009