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GOP should not roll over on Medicare

Friday, May 6th, 2011 by Mark Chapman

One of the small plea­sures in life I enjoy is sit­ting down for break­fast with a cup of good hot cof­fee and the news­pa­per. I have a rota­tion of restau­rants I visit and I enjoy the “quiet time.” Usu­ally. But not this morning.

Instead of going to the comics first, I made the mis­take of read­ing the arti­cle the front page of the Sara­sota Herald-Tribune. The par­tic­u­lar story of dis­may was enti­tled “GOP will Shelve Bid to Retool Medicare.”

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In praise of Skidmore

Thursday, May 5th, 2011 by Mark Chapman

Com­mis­sioner Skid­more is a per­son who will go the extra mile. He is the only Board Mem­ber that has a web site, to inform the pub­lic. You can find out what was on the agenda and how the Com­mis­sion­ers voted. This is a com­plete pack­age for your infor­ma­tion. You can copy this and use it for future ref­er­ence. At elec­tion time you can use this infor­ma­tion to make a good deci­sion. Also this site has mate­r­ial to inform you, to bet­ter under­stand projects. The last one was on Mos­quito control.

We need to be bet­ter informed on the ins and outs of our Board of Com­mis­sion­ers. Com­mis­sioner Skid­more saw this need. Thank you for your extra devo­tion to your job.

Joe Voll,Burnt Store Colony

Buchanan Tea Party survey questions cause ire

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 by Mark Chapman

Mr. Buchanan,

To be per­fectly hon­est, I am extremely offended by your online sur­vey today. You are ask­ing peo­ple if they “sup­port” the tea party or not. I am offended on two counts:

1) First, it shows absolutely no under­stand­ing of what the tea party stands for. You are skew­ing your ques­tion in order to get neg­a­tive reac­tions to the tea party name. This is obvi­ous because oth­er­wise you would ask the same ques­tions the tea party asks you. Do you sup­port con­sti­tu­tion­ally lim­ited gov­ern­ment? Do you sup­port reduc­tion of spend­ing to no more than receipts? Do you sup­port energy inde­pen­dence? Do you believe the con­sti­tu­tion should be the guid­ing force behind all leg­is­la­tion? I dare say you would get near 100% pos­i­tive response. This is NOT ABOUT THE TEA PARTY!!! This is about our gov­ern­ment gone amok and cit­i­zens work­ing to see that it get fixed. When you ask such a ques­tion as ‘do you sup­port the tea party or not,’ you are doing more to polar­ize than bring together. STICK TO THE ISSUES! WE ARE NOT THE ISSUE, WE ARE MAKING A POINT OF SPEAKING TO ISSUES.

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McCall family offers thanks for benefit

Friday, February 11th, 2011 by Mark Chapman

The ben­e­fit for Gene McCall and fam­ily in Decem­ber was a huge suc­cess. A hand­ful of peo­ple started this ben­e­fit because they saw a need and we are so grate­ful that they did.

There are so many peo­ple to thank for so many ser­vices pro­vided that I would not be able to list each and every one of you. What I would like to say to each of you is this:

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A heartfelt thank-you

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

To the editor:

Ann and I want to pub­licly thank all our friends, acquain­tances, and even strangers who have expressed their appre­ci­a­tion for the time we spent at Lemon Bay Playhouse.

We have always worked together for all of our work­ing lives, and the time we spent at Lemon Bay Play­house, both as vol­un­teers and employ­ees, was some of the most reward­ing. Most of that grat­i­fi­ca­tion came from work­ing with the won­der­ful vol­un­teers there, as well as the best audi­ences in the world!

You will still see Ann on stage from time to time, but I am now involved with Ticket Tur­tle, the online tick­et­ing sys­tem that the the­ater uses. We live here in Engle­wood, so if you see us around, please say “hi”.

Jim and Ann Hanushek

Engle­wood

Vote Yes on Amendments 5 and 6

Thursday, October 14th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

The Olde Engle­wood Vil­lage Home­own­ers Asso­ci­a­tion asks you to Vote YES on Amend­ments 5 and 6 on Nov. 2.

These amend­ments direct that vot­ing dis­tricts be as com­pact as pos­si­ble (one now goes from coast to coast), fol­low exist­ing city, county and geo­graph­i­cal bound­aries where pos­si­ble, can’t favor or dis­fa­vor an incum­bent or polit­i­cal party, and will add to the rights of minor­ity party voters.

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Charlotte County TRIM notice a bad joke

Friday, August 27th, 2010 by Mark Chapman

To Mr. Robert Skid­more and Commissioners,

In my opin­ion, and I am sure many oth­ers who received their TRIM notices, the county has per­pet­u­ated a really bad joke in the form of the TRIM notices. Not only has the county admin­is­tra­tion increased the assessed value of my prop­erty, blam­ing the state of course, but really have added insult to injury by increas­ing the tax rate for every sin­gle cat­e­gory of tax­ing unit. This hap­pens to be the third straight year of increases for this household.

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Sharkey’s concession trailer, overlay code changes bad new for Key

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 by Mark Chapman

To the editor,

A recent arti­cle in a local print news­pa­per stated “Mobile ven­dor approved for Engle­wood Beach.”

There was another story in recent months about another food con­ces­sion on Man­a­sota Key; only this one was in Sara­sota County. A novel idea there allowed the peo­ple to vote their choice.

Even though their are no restau­rants on their beaches and much greater park­ing, the peo­ple voted NO.

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