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Todays letters: Readers comment on unaccompanied minors at the border, racism in America and the "big lie" about the election The Gainesville Sun © DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS, POOL/AFP via Getty Images Young unaccompanied migrants, wait for their turn at the secondary processing station inside the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. - The Biden administr...

NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals OPINION Todays letters: Readers comment on unaccompanied minors at the border, racism in America and the "big lie" about the election The Gainesville Sun Where’s the outrage? The recent news on mainstream media is that the first four of the approximately 1,000 children separated by the Trump administration have been reunited with their families.  Congrats to all involved.   Now, let’s talk about the 23,000 (and coun...

The Gainesville Sun Manage your sprinkler  If you are one of the landowners who has the sprinklers on all afternoon, or water spraying over pavements, you need to fix the problem right now.   There is a threshold for how much water can be infiltrated by soil during a specific time period. It usually takes about 30 minutes to reach that threshold. Once the limit is exceeded, the excess water eventually becomes surface runoff and goes down storm sewers. You are wasting extra money, while your ...