For years, I have driven on Commercial Boulevard between Powerline Road and Northwest 15th Avenue and seen a homeless man on a bus bench — mornings, nights and rainy days.
I’ve stopped to talk with him. I’ve bought him food (he loves KFC). If he wants Chap-Stick, I get it for him.
As people in this community, what are we doing to help those who are helpless and lost, poor and needy?
“Mark” needs a warm bed and a table with food. We need to help people like him. But we drive by every day and do nothing. I hope to God help will find him. He needs our love and support.
Alecia Waller, North Lauderdale
The Teflon King
Right-wing protests are on the decline, according to groups tracking them.
Antisemitic and racist protesters believe that marches like the one in Charlottesville, Va., are no longer necessary as they have accomplished their goals with Donald Trump in office. That’s the view of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right group Oath Keepers.
Rhodes was part of the Jan. 6 riot and was pardoned in spite of the violence instigated by Trump.
Some federal prosecutors who tried them were fired for defying the tyrant in the Oval Office.
Ethics, justice and morality have been abandoned. What remains is obeisance to the Teflon King.
Wake up, America.
Dr. Howard Olarsch, DDS, Boynton Beach
Leave ZIP codes alone
As a 250-year-old self-funded institution, the U.S. Postal Service remains committed to its mission, but proposed legislation in Congress (H.R. 672 and H.R. 3095) threatens to disrupt mail service by unilaterally redefining local ZIP codes. These changes would significantly degrade mail service.
The Postal Service created ZIP codes to support and enable delivery. ZIP codes are generally based on the physical facility from where local letter carriers deliver. Legislated ZIP code changes often overlook how ZIP codes function and instead focus on secondary considerations such as tax collection, car insurance premiums or community identity.
Changing them by congressional decree will force inefficient and costly rerouting of mail to other facilities and changes to truck and carrier routes when we’re working to improve our financial and service performance.
Consistent and reliable delivery will be more difficult if lawmakers dictate ZIP codes without consideration for the implications on postal operations and customers. We stand ready
to work with Congress to make it easier — not harder — to deliver mail.
David Guiney, Lighthouse Point
The writer is a district manager for the United States Postal Service.
(Editor’s Note: The sponsor of H.R. 672 is Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Miami. The bill would create ZIP codes for Cooper City, Miami Lakes, and other communities. It passed the House with broad bipartisan support on July 21.)
No fan of Pat Beall
Pat Beall is now an editorial writer and columnist for the Sun Sentinel, focusing mainly on Palm Beach County issues.
Your “humor” columnist, Pat Beall, is quite possibly the unfunniest humor columnist I have ever encountered in a newspaper.
Her endless trashing of Donald Trump, and of conservatives in general, likely means that her well of ideas is shallow and only runs in one direction.
Is there any way to have her column excised from my Sun Sentinel before I receive it?
Osvaldo Valdes, Hollywood
Too much fear of Trump
President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous statement, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” now makes complete sense to me.
Too many representatives in Congress are quite fearful of Donald Trump.
It is that fear that we need to fear.
Jay Pellis, Coral Springs
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