Orlando is right to keep eyes on its trees
Orlando officials say tree count is a good investment” read the headline. I have often had trepidation when traveling under large tree branches that overhang the roadway. Canopies are beautiful, but if the city or property owner does not know the health of the tree, citizens are in danger of being harmed if the tree topples, or a branch is too heavy to be supported and comes crashing down. Dangerous trees can be trimmed or removed. Protecting life is paramount, even preferable to beautiful tree canopies. Tree inspection and inventory is wise and a necessary investment.
Choice Edwards Clermont
Public servants serve themselves
Democracy is a good idea. Too bad that it has failed in America. We should be electing fiduciaries. Instead, those elected think they are our leaders; not required to listen. Worse, they love conflict so much that they will never learn to collaborate, with each other or anyone else.
Roger Van Zanen Deltona
Who is delusional?
Those of us who have an intense dislike for Donald Trump (I was taught to try and avoid the word ‘hate”) d/o not necessarily have “Trump derangement syndrome.” Instead, maybe just we realize, like many others, the damage he is doing daily to this country and consequently the rest of the world by his own ego and sense of self- importance that outweighs reality.
Yes, the president of the United States is of course the most important job in the whole world, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the holder of that office is capable enough, responsible enough and far-sighted enough — along with everything else connected to that pffice — to be totally worthy of the title. Which is, of course, one of the reasons we have term limits, and the president of the United States can be neither a king or a dictator. Donald Trump’s ‘derangement” seems to be that he thinks he is both.
Nancy Caroline Tait Altamonte Springs
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