My spouse and I lately went to the state drivers’ license workplace on Pine Island Highway in Dawn after ready two months for an appointment.
A police officer greeted us and verified our appointment time. As a result of we’re seniors, they put us on the entrance of the road. Whereas ready, we watched this officer cope with quite a lot of issues that he dealt with in a educated, skilled means. When it was time for our appointment, we had been introduced inside and sat within the entrance row, reserved for seniors.
Quickly a employee got here by, verified our paperwork and gave us a particular next-in-line quantity for seniors. Shortly, we had been known as. We acquired our licenses renewed, paid and left.
Whereas ready, we watched freeway security personnel display everybody. There was plenty of nervousness and drama, however staff professionally dealt with everybody with compassion and understanding. My spouse and I simply needed to say because of everybody who works there for expertise.
Frank DiMartino, Plantation
Preserve digging, DOGE
It’s time for a severe reckoning at Go to Lauderdale.
Since Stacy Ritter grew to become its CEO in 2019, regardless of missing tourism or digital advertising expertise, the company operates prefer it’s nonetheless 1995.
Hundreds of thousands have been wasted on outdated techniques equivalent to Instances Sq. promoting, an $800,000 float within the Rose Bowl parade, and a Sphere advert in Las Vegas with zero measurable return on funding. Palm Seaside tourism has had a TikTok presence since 2020. Broward? Absent.
Worse, for 25 years, 80% of promoting inside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport has promoted one enterprise, Everglades Vacation Park. It is a publicly owned park, privately run for revenue.
Why isn’t Go to Lauderdale showcasing the enduring Hollywood Seaside Broadwalk, Sawgrass Mills or Las Olas? The place’s the accountability from the airport director or the tourism workplace?
Broward’s airport may very well be producing income from high-end advert buys. As an alternative it’s on autopilot like a lot of Broward authorities. It’s insiders hiring insiders. Ritter earns an estimated $350,000 a yr with no confirmed success.
Fortunately, DOGE is lastly investigating Broward spending. County taxpayers deserve an expert, fashionable, clear tourism company — no more waste and self-promotion.
Will Candis, Dania Seaside
The GOP’s glass home
Letter author Neil Bluestein by no means fails to supply us with ammunition that contradicts his pro-Trump rants.
In his newest letter, he cited three situations of heinous murders of girls by unlawful aliens beneath the Biden administration and said “they’d all be alive as we speak if not for the insurance policies of the earlier administration. It’s a real tragedy what the Democrat social gathering has change into.”
Might I remind Bluestein of the 58 folks massacred by a lone gunman at a Las Vegas live performance in 2017; the 26 folks murdered at a Baptist church in Texas in 2017; the 17 college students and employees massacred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland in 2018; the 22 folks murdered on the El Paso Walmart in 2019; and numerous folks murdered in mass shootings in the course of the first Trump administration.
These crimes had been dedicated by U.S. residents because of ridiculously lax gun legal guidelines instituted or upheld by Trump and the Republican Occasion. If not for his or her insurance policies, all these folks may nonetheless be alive. It’s a tragedy to see what the social gathering now generally known as TPFKAR (The Occasion Previously Recognized As Republican) has change into. Pay attention to your personal glass home, Mr. Bluestein.
Rita Ouellette, Margate
Keep in mind them
To all of the supposedly non secular lawmakers who’re so desperate to imprison immigrants: “Keep in mind these in jail as should you had been along with them in jail, and people who are mistreated as should you yourselves had been struggling.” (Hebrews 13:3)
Karen Schmeck, Dawn
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