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Easy choice: Obey signs, or get hit

Leaving Kash 'N Karry at Keene Road and East Bay Drive in Largo recently, I noticed that the elderly people who live in Imperial Palms are still crossing in the middle of Keene. What gives with this?

After all the markers and signs that have been put up and all the complaining that the residents of the apartment complex did, they are still crossing where they are not supposed to. Can they not read or see? The signs say "Use the crosswalk." This has not been the first time I have seen an elderly person crossing at that place.

When one of them gets hit, they will say it is the driver's fault. It's hard to feel sorry for someone who ignores the signs. What will we have to do, put up a 2-foot-tall median so they can't push their carts across?

Angled parking would help Cleveland Street

Re: Street upgrade irks Clearwater merchants, story, Dec. 29.

Downtown Newsstand owner George Kelly and the other petitioners are correct when proclaiming that the major problem on Cleveland Street is the lack of parking. Angled parking would work now that Cleveland is no longer the main drag. How the powers-that-be can't figure this out is beyond me. Kudos to those folks who take a chance in starting a business.

Making the street pretty and widening the sidewalks isn't going to get me a parking spot in front of the newsstand. My parents and I moved here in 1961 when I was 5 and I remember how good it was then - all the different shops, a movie theater and Maas Brothers.

Past tense.

Life downhill since school prayer banned

Re: Simple pleasures of bygone days taken to heart, letter, Dec. 25.

I applaud Joan Atkins for her letter reminding us of our wonderful past. I lived in that time.

The downfall started with the second-rate U.S. Supreme Court justices banning prayer and the Bible from schools and banning prayer from all school functions, and hiding behind the First Amendment to allow smut, porn, trash and vicious, obscene language to go uncontrolled.

Congress' judicial committee has the power to rescind the flawed rulings and violations of the Constitution, and the lazy bums did nothing.

Result: the current immoral society, saturated with illicit sex, influx of sexual predators and a general decline, shameful for a country we used to be proud of.

All incumbents should be removed from office.

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