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Re: Sand to barge in for safety's sake, Aug. 13.
I have lived on Sunset Beach for 20 years and have watched the sand get pumped in every two or three years. Storms and tides take it right back, and the high tide is in the same location as before the renourishment.
Pinellas County coastal management coordinator Nicole Elko seems to think the renourished sand will be there for the next turtle season.
She also thinks more people will come to the beach because it's 30 yards wider.
I guess, if nothing else, it makes some company a lot of money and gives her something to do.
See you back in a couple of years.
Johnny Watters, Treasure Island
Progress leaders should be ashamed
Re: Progress Energy Florida's one-quarter profit was: $87,000,000, Aug. 10.
As a retiree living in Florida, I want to say how happy we all are that Progress Energy is showing such a nice profit for its last quarter.
How can the corporate leaders sleep at night knowing they are taxing the fixed incomes of all of us? Soon it will be, for even more of us, a decision each month to pay the electric bill or buy food.
Between the electric bills, medication prices, telephone bills and insurance, our comfortable life of retirement, which we all worked years to obtain, has become a nightmare of survival.
Phyllis I. Heinly, Tarpon Springs
Time traffic signals to fight terror
We need to time or synchronize our traffic lights so that when we drive the posted speed limit, traffic will flow better.
By doing this we, as Americans, will be contributing through less gas and oil consumption.
Also, we will not be contributing money through oil and gas to our enemies who support terrorists, who kill us and our servicemen and women.
If we did this, our politicians would really earn their keep, and law-abiding citizens would be doing their part against terrorism.
Vernon Hipkins, Clearwater
Prevent crime, lock your car!
Re: Police: Car burglars bold, but beatable, by Casey Cora, Aug. 16
I get up before dawn and walk a few miles seven days a week. During my walks I see countless cars with the doors unlocked. With car break-ins so common, it is very foolhardy of car owners to do this. Trust is not compatible with the reality of today. Absence of car burglaries often depends upon presence of mind. Why make it easy for criminals to rip you off?
I do think that when a car owner catches someone in the act of breaking into his car that the owner should be lawfully permitted to use as much force as necessary to hold the malefactor until the police arrive. A citizen's arrest in this case would be most appropriate.
Robert B. Fleming, St. Petersburg