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Letters to the editor for April 28, 2021 The Gainesville Sun Let's stomp it   The easiest way to send COVID-19 packing is for all adults to get vaccinated. According to the New York Times, the vaccines have nearly eliminated death, hospitalization and other serious COVID illness among people who have received shots. The paper also says vaccines have radically reduced the chances that people contract even a mild version of COVID or can pass it on to others.   More than 130 million people in the U.S. have gotten at least one dose. COVID infections have plummeted as a result o...

Letters and feedback: March 14, 2021 Florida Today © Provided by USA TODAY President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that includes $1,400 stimulus checks. Home rule, quality of life in jeopardy The proliferation of short-term rentals and/or Airbnb's is slowly eroding the quality of life in residential neighborhoods in Brevard County. Our neighborhood in South Cocoa Beach has already experienced disturbances at all hours of the night during the work week. This is not only an infringement upon our right to peace and quiet...

Over in the Economist, Kal Kallaugher wonders if Europe will ever trust us again, given that she’s got reasons not to. I’m leading with it because yesterday I promised to look into the missile strike against a launch base in Syria, admitting that, given my feelings about our having abandoned our Kurdish allies, I had some expectations in the matter. An analyst interviewed on the BBC that morning noted that the target was an Iraqi group and suggested it was a departure from the Trump policy of blaming everything on Iran and signaled a softening related to our desire to rebuild the Iran nu...

Star poet Amanda Gorman signs modeling contract Amanda Gorman has been the talk of the town since she wowed the world with her poem at the Biden-Harris inauguration. Next up: modeling and bestselling books. Star poet and now model Amanda Gorman Just a week after the 22-year-old enthralled the world with her inaugural poem The Hill We Climb at the Bide-Harris swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C. on January 20, Amanda Gorman's career appears to be taking off in many different directions. The young activist and poet just signed to IGM Models, an international model agency that prides itsel...

Florida governor’s political future linked to COVID response | Bill Cotterell Bill Cotterell, Guest columnist It’s time for Gov. Ron DeSantis to turn his attention to re-election and, at the moment, things look better than he deserves. In the slightly more than 50 years that Florida governors have been able to seek second terms, only two — Claude Kirk and Bob Martinez — have been denied. But they were controversial guys, elected in something of a fluke, and had faced sharp divisions in their Republican ranks. Worse, they had strong, well-liked Democratic opponents. DeS...