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Letters

  • Jungle law

    We were horrified by working conditions in slaughterhouses, described by Upton Sinclair in “The Jungle.” The 1906 book led to the passage of pure food laws, and it was said Sinclair influenced President Franklin Roosevelt. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created, but its clout diminished in the Reagan years. I recall that one day in the ’80s, the radio repeated Gov. Sonny Perdue was using the mafia to keep unions out, but government didn’t react. The people and government are conscious of the welfare of the consumer, but not the worker.

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  • Hefty haul

    Daystar Life center thanks the NALC (National Association of Letter Carriers) and the citizens of our county for their hard work and generosity during the recent Postal Food Drive.

    Daystar, an agency under United Way, was one of the recipients of the food collected during this nationwide annual event, put on by the letter carriers to help stamp out hunger.

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  • Deluge of donations

    Awe-inspiring and astonishing are the results of our NALC (National Association of Letter Carriers) food drive this year. Exactly 63,748 pounds of non-perishable food was collected last Saturday, thanks to our employees of all of our post offices in Citrus County participating in this national day of food recovery through USPS. Unbelievable!

    Folks in our community really stepped up to the plate this year to give something to those families who struggle each and every day to put the most basic human need on their tables — food.

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  • Life-saving hospital

    I want to thank Seven Rivers hospital and the doctors there for their care. I have been to a lot of doctors around the area, even to the University of South Florida in Tampa. Doctors at Seven Rivers helped me, after years (when) doctors couldn’t find my problem.

    Please don’t dismiss this wonderful hospital. They saved my life.

    Vera Brunke
    Inverness

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  • Golf for meals

    Citrus County’s Support Services, Nature Coast Volunteer Center, the Citrus County Chronicle and the Friends of the Nature Coast Volunteer Center joined the Meals on Wheels Association of America and its local programs nationwide for the annual March for Meals campaign to help stop senior hunger. Our local program is referred to as the “Home Delivered Meals Program.”

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  • Questions

    Regarding the letter by Naomi Vonesh on May 11 called “Speak your piece,” I have the following questions:

    1) If we are successful in removing federal control over the sovereign Florida waters of King’s Bay and returning them to the state of Florida, what is the specific “broader control” we would get over King’s Bay?

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  • Biblical guidance

    Leonard Pitts’ May 7 column pointed out problems that arise when people use the Bible as an infallible authority to modern issues. Consider: This is the 21st century; the King James Version was published in the early 17th century; the first compilation of the books of the Bible was in the 4th century; English was not the original language of the Bible; Mark, the first gospel to be written, was written in Greek in 70 AD; Jesus of Nazareth spoke Aramaic and died about 30 AD; there are many versions of the Bible today; and customs vary over time and in different parts of the world.

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  • Gas costs

    Gas prices in part are up because of the government policy that has weakened the dollar. We pay for foreign oil in dollars which are worth less because of the out-of-control spending and printing of more money, so it takes more dollars to buy the same amount of oil.

    What about this policy of issuing permits for drilling on public lands, which is way down from the Bush years, and President Obama’s interference with the Canadian pipeline? How does Obama think that increasing taxes on oil companies is going to help the people? It will only further increase the cost of gasoline.

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  • On freedom of speech

    The Citrus County Chronicle editorial of May 13, 2012, was very critical of the chairman of the Citrus County Hospital Board and candidate for Citrus commissioner, Mike Smallridge, after he offered to find an answer to BOCC budgetary woes.

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  • Scholarships

    I recently had the opportunity to attend Crystal River High School’s Senior Awards Ceremony, where scholarships and awards were given to local high school students who plan to further their education beyond high school. I have been telling everyone I see how uplifted and proud I was when I left the school that evening, because I learned we live in a county where its citizens and business leaders care — really care — about helping our local students pursue higher education.

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