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Newspaper
Sun Coast Gondolier
Location
Venice, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1981
Page
4
The Venice City Council wins praise for a millage rollback of 0.75 mills, saving a homeowner with a $50 000 assessed home about $87.50. Critics question the $796 000 surplus funds and urge limits on the city banking of taxpayer money while noting emergency needs.
Local guidance invites reader letters up to 200 words and requires writer signoff with full address and phone number for publication. Submissions should be addressed to Letters to the Editor P O Box 1028 Venice Florida 33595.
A reader thanks W A May of Babe's Plumbing Venice for returning a teenage girl's purse found after it slipped from her car on Business 41. The note praises the honest act and notes her glasses were intact.
A Venice visitor recalls meeting Lowell Thomas and recounts past work with him in Battle Creek. The piece also notes Thomas's later marriage, Brinkley’s NBC retirement, and a quip about Hoover Dam naming.
A personal meditation on why today’s couples delay or avoid starting families. The author argues media and society portray parenthood as costly and restrictive, pressuring newlyweds to postpone children and redefining the traditional family role in American life.
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