I am writing this letter to praise Bradenton Police Chief Michael Radzilowski. The residents of Bradenton should be proud they have a police chief who took the high road when it comes to excessive fines for traffic violations.
It would have been easier for the chief to just turn a blind eye to the excessive fines and cry, “Hang ‘em high, zero tolerance, increase the fines even more.” However, Chief Radzilowski understands that excessive fines do not solve the problem, but increase the problems for the people who received the violations, with the increased financial burden on the family that is struggling to get by financially at this time.
William S. Tow
Bradenton
Florida lags in educating students in math, science
Until this recession, Florida’s economy grew mainly because of new housing. But the ability to wield a hammer is no longer a job guarantee. With the state reducing funding for public education, it is a given that Sarasota County needs to continue the one mill sales tax for education.
The Oct. 21 New York Times Business section ran an article explaining why Tarrytown in Westchester, N.Y., has lured several biotech companies to invest heavily in their area. It is because of the availability of skilled workers, location and good transportation. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, one company that has come to Tarrytown, emphasized that “science today is being done in collaborative groups” and for one project we might need a molecular biologist, a biochemist, a physiologist, and a biochemical engineer, all of whom know how genes fit into development and manufacturing of a new drug.
This article shows that there is a serious need to produce well-educated scientists if Florida is to lure new biotech industries here. To do this, math/science education must start with the lowest grades. Our weather might compete with Manhattan as a location lure and we continue to improve public transportation, but most of all we need to educate students to know a lot more than how to hammer a nail.
Rosemarie Myerson
Sarasota
Only Fox News exposing government secrecy
I am vastly concerned at the letters defaming Fox News, the only trustworthy news channel. If Germany had “freedom of speech” during World War II, as we supposedly have in our country, and if they had men warning people of what Hitler was doing, perhaps the Holocaust would not have happened. Thank God for the newsmen who will tell it like it is and who have deep-seated convictions, moral courage and moral outrage to let it be known what our government is hiding from us. Were it not for moral outrage, America would be under British rule and the Emancipation Proclamation would never have been written.
As Americans, our decision to speak out or remain silent will create the world our children will inherit. As of now, our nation is spiraling downhill morally and financially and the men in charge are making matters worse.
Our forefathers acknowledged our creator God in the Declaration of Independence, but we are forbidden to talk about Him in our schools. There have been more than 50 million abortions since Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land, mostly for birth control.
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