Editorial challenges Grove Terrace modernization waste
An editorial questions a $150 000 HUD funded Grove Terrace upgrade, including $20 000 for replacing nine year old stoves and fridges. It argues federal funds come from taxpayers and urges tenants to care for appliances, warning indiscriminate replacement drains tax dollars. It asserts value in decent housing but condemns perceived carelessness and federal gift rhetoric.
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Grove Terrace
Venice
HUD
From Urph to City Hall Secretaries by Mike Murphy
The author compares corporate and City Hall secretaries, focusing on Sheila in the city manager's office. She handles daily tasks, coordinates with mayor and council, calms irate citizens, routes calls, and manages appointment demands. He notes secretaries serve and organize, with City Hall duties tougher than the business world.
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Sheila
Nutsville
City Hall
Venice’s 1950s press scene revealed by Mary Hinkle
Reader recalls Mary Hinkle’s Venice column detailing a large network of reporters in the area during the 1950s. He contrasts Venice’s journalist density with his Michigan hometown, notes encounters with Sam Dillion and The Gondolier, and reflects on local media history and memories of Venice.
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Mary Hinkle
Venice
Enquirer
News
Battle Creek
Pete Conover
Mary
Camelot
Florida Press
Sam
Donald Hinderliter
Gulf Breeze
West Venice Avenue
Tamiami Trail
City of Venice
Inflation: Too much government in Washington
A reader argues inflation is driven by government growth and new agencies. They urge cutting waste, reducing regulations, and expanding private energy efforts in oil shale coal and solar power, noting lengthy permitting and costly bureaucratic delays.
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Congress
Department of Energy
Department of Education
Washington
DOE
Europe
A Reader's Light Hearted Take on Men and Women's Dress
Norah Denison writes a witty exchange critiquing contemporary men's fashion and defending practical dress. She notes Cary Grant style as ideal, laments leisure suits and tourist tacky outfits, and ribbings about gray pinstripes while embracing casual denims and tees in daily workwear.
Death by own action leaves friend in guilty reflection
In a letter to the editor Iris Woolcock, a NYC journalist, died by her own action while visiting Warm Mineral Springs. The writer laments three such losses, questions if she was sensitive enough to see desperate need, and asks for guidance to prevent further tragedies.
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Iris Woolcock
New York City
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Helen Hastings
Ned Burke
Kathy Tyrity
Randall Hicks
David Bitner
SUN Coast Gondolier
Sun Coast Gondolier Inc
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Rankin
Robert A. Vedder
John C. Hewens
North Port News
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Miami Ave
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Tallahassee
Fla
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