Please explain
To the editor:
I have been hearing quite a lot around town on the matter of human signs.
I feel that if it’s OK for politicians in town and all of their volunteers to stand on every corner of every intersection in the city of Kissimmee during the months that precede an election — not to mention the day of — then it should be all right for the small, struggling businesses of Kissimmee to do the same thing at times, like florists on Valentine’s Day, Santa with a bucket for Salvation Army at Christmas, Kissimmee Fire Department with the boots at intersections raising money and tax preparation during tax season.
Please explain the difference to me.
Robin Krewson
Kissimmee

Clean water leadership?
To the editor:
It’s difficult for me to admit, but I was once as young as some of the Osceola County commissioners, and truth be told, I was probably just as naïve. It pains me to say that.
Recently at a meeting of the six-figure bunch dragging the county commissioners around by their nose-rings (more commonly known as the County Commission meeting), it was bemoaned that the get-what-you-can-while-you-can boys might actually have to be held accountable to a standard on water quality. They say this with dread in their voice.
Perhaps this might be the time to let the citizens (remember us the ones who pay more and get less) know that over a period of 10 years FDEP spent 20 million of our tax dollars to establish a minimum water quality standard. They were unable (or unwilling) to come up with minimum standards. So the Federal EPA stepped in and did it for them. All of a sudden it’s doom and gloom.
For whom you might ask?
Is it doom and gloom for a homeowner whose taxes keep going up on his waterfront home but can’t get to their waterfront because Osceola County is not doing its best to keep the stormwater runoff that comes off the streets and from the yards from getting into the county’s lakes?
Is it doom and gloom that they can’t get to their dock or get their boat out of the canal to go enjoy what’s left of their lake?
Is it doom and gloom that county staff fines a homeowner who buys a house with a dock? Then when it’s proven that the dock was permitted, the county attorney refuses to refund the money! Even though a county commissioner built the dock and home?
Is it doom and gloom to finally admit that excessive weeds that come from county staff’s refusal to adhere to “best management practice” might finally be curtailed? Or county staff’s practice of spraying weeds with copious amounts of chemicals, causing them to fall to the bottom of the lakes to smother fish eggs and keep young fish from reaching areas shallow enough to find shelter long enough to survive?
“Keep Osceola Beautiful?”
Who knows, maybe we taxpayers might finally get some help in trying to do that.
Capt. Al Bernetti
President
Alligator Lake Chain Homeowners Association
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