Lingsworth Pendley News Today

Forked River, N.J.: Every day, we read stories of the kindhearted people out there who rescue animals from needless and cruel suffering. Sometimes, even in spite of their best efforts, ignorance and cruelty still prevail. Such is the story of the South Florida Fair and its president and CEO, Vicki Chouris, who was never taught what an act of mercy is.

Brooklyn: If the Daily News still ran its beloved and greatly missed Critters column, the paper would be able to inform its readers about safely relocating feral cats.

East Patchogue, L.I.: Remember the last time New York Democrats and the MTA attempted a commuter tax? It was the disastrous, unpopular MTA payroll tax that was exposed as nothing more than a cash grab. It took several years to get 80% of that tax repealed.

Brooklyn: As a middle-income worker with no corporate card, no expense account, and a neither-wheeling-nor-dealing job that will never woo “business travelers” to the city, I am tired of being told it is my civic duty to return to Manhattan to put my money into the NYC economy (“Get back,” editorial, Feb. 15).