In the six short years I have lived in Fort Lauderdale, I’ve watched traffic grow to match what I left in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area.
The noticeable (and welcome) break before the annual onslaught of snowbirds and tourists has diminished as Fort Lauderdale has become a robust year-round city with challenges to match.
So it was a bit of relief to see that the site known as Searstown may go back on the market.
With no meaningful plans to improve the heavily trafficked adjacent roadways (U.S. 1 and Sunrise Boulevard), I’m hopeful this parcel will linger undeveloped for a long time, until a regime change in Tallahassee allows Florida municipalities to better control their development destinies.
Lobbyists and developers do not care about our quality of life.
Kevin Schoeler, Fort Lauderdale
Archbishop is wrong
Archbishop Thomas Wenski is simply wrong.
Melanie Metz/The New York Times
Archbishop Thomas Wenski in Miami on March 11, 2022. He has repeatedly denounced the possible closing of the church’s Cutler Bay shelter, which is housing 50 children during the pandemic.
Illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor, subject to a fine and imprisonment. There’s generally no statute of limitations for this criminal act, as it is a continuing violation.
People who commit this misdemeanor are termed “illegal aliens” by law — and not “irregular” as Wenski describes them.
Anyone who violates criminal law should be punished. These illegal aliens knowingly break the law. They should be subject to arrest and deportation.
Enforcing the law is hardly “zealous legalism” and law enforcement personnel are not “modern-day Javerts” as Wenski writes.
As a nation, we have a right to control our borders.
Terrence J. O’Loughlin, J.D., M.B.A., Tamarac
Don’t drill, baby
Add President Trump’s proposal for offshore drilling off the Florida coast to the long list of shortsighted ideas that will jeopardize our environment and our future well-being.
Then again, if the president is so adamant about this, let those first drilling wells be sited along his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach.
Merri Rosenberg, Boca Raton
America deserves better
President Trump continues to be the ugliest American ever to be the leader of our country.
He continues to publicly insult and disrespect not only respected news reporters, but others he disagrees with.
Whatever happened to American decorum?
I’m sure that his actions are not reciprocated with negative responses because others respect the office of the president, and not the man. He evidently does not care how this looks in the eyes of other countries in the world.
America deserves better.
Ronald Jones, Pembroke Pines
Communism, misunderstood
Florida approved a new curriculum to teach public school students the dangers and evils of communism. I am sure they will begin by explaining that communism is a political and economic ideology that advocates for a classless society, where the means of production are publicly owned and wealth is distributed according to need.
Under this system, private property is abolished. All citizens are considered equal according to the principle of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
In practice, communism is often associated with totalitarian states where a single party controls both the government and the economy.
I have no doubt that instructors in Florida will point out that the ideological side of communism contains aspects favored by the Democratic Party — while its practical sides tend to mirror the Republican Party.
Lawrence M. Kopelman, Plantation
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