Change premise of impact fees
If impact fees were limited to commercial construction and not a burden to retired people putting a double-wide or a retirement home on a lot to move down here, I would be all for them.
We need homeowners. They far outnumber businesses, and that's where you get tax money for schools over the long run.
Change the premise, and you got my vote.
James Woods, Brooksville
Why Keystone meets resistance
Let's connect the dots.
Dot 1: President Barack Obama has consistently resisted approval of the Keystone pipeline.
Dot 2: The Canadian oil that would be shipped via the pipeline has regularly arrived in the United States via the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.
Dot 3: If the pipeline went ahead, the railway would suffer a substantial loss of shipment income.
Dot 4: The railway is 100 percent owned by Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway.
Dot 5: Mr. Buffett and the railway's political action committee are major contributors to President Obama, Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party.
Do I see a connection of these dots?
Robert B. Ryan, Spring Hill
We're easy prey for manipulators
With the decline of newspapers, serious reporters and investigative journalists, we have left ourselves ever more vulnerable to the slick talker and the smoothie who knows all about manipulating an uninformed public.
With the advent of the Internet and people too busy to read more than a headline, we have given up our responsibility to ourselves.
We have left ourselves gullible and clueless, subject to politicians with the money to buy their way in taking over our governments, large and small. Woe to us!
L.J.Phillips, Brooksville