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City manager process is endless

Re: City manager finalists get public interviews Oct. 28

Endless. That's the word that came to mind when I read the article about public interviews for the job of Dunedin city manager.

The search for city manager story is like the Energizer Bunny. It keeps going and going and going.

The public interviewing, I believe, was a dead giveaway to the undue importance the city commissioners are attaching to the city manager's job.

Good grief. Hire someone.

If that person doesn't perform up to expectation, fire that person. Let's go.

Having public interviews for the job is akin to congressional interrogation of proposed U.S. Supreme Court justices.

Will somebody please tell the commissioners they are hiring a manager for a small, lovely city in Florida, for Pete's sake?

The fact that fewer than 10 people were in attendance at this public interviewing should be no surprise to any thinking person.

If a citizen cannot vote for a candidate for city official, why would that person want to watch an interview of any candidate?

Allowing the citizen to ask questions but have no say in the hiring of any candidate is a painful intellectual tease.

Undoubtedly, Dunedin is populated with smart people who would rather stay home and watch anything - anything - on TV.

Come on. The College of Roman Catholic Cardinals has chosen a new pope in better time than this collection of commissioners is spending on the hiring - hiring, for God's sake - of a city manager.

My hope is that soon we will see a puff of white smoke coming out of the chimney on City Hall.

Jack Bray, Dunedin

Why does a clock need GPS to run?

Re: Clock gets back its tick-tock, photograph Oct. 26

Will someone explain why the restored clock in downtown Clearwater needs GPS (a precision position-finding system) to keep accurate time?

Go ahead, get technical.

Richard Parvin, Clearwater

Watch Bayshore for scofflaws

Re: School buses need arm of law at stops Oct. 26

Hey! What a great idea!

With a price of $157 for getting a ticket for not stopping when a school bus stops, maybe that will shock more people for driving so fast and/or not paying attention.

Now, if the police really want to make some bucks, they should stake out the area of Bayshore Boulevard and just watch for cars that daily drive around school buses and pass other cars using the middle turn lane. I cringe when I see my mailman or lady, standing there waiting to finish crossing the road.

Nancy M. Eggert, Dunedin

Good people help when car stalls

On a recent beautiful Sunday morning, my wife and I were driving to the beach via Belleair Causeway at 9:15 a.m. when our car lost all electric power halfway up the drawbridge - a first for me at age 85.

Cars were piling up fast!

The good: A nice lady got out of her car smiling and immediately tried to call 911 on her cell phone with no success.

Another nice gentleman offered to help and started to direct traffic around us.

May the Lord bless you both with good health, happiness and a long life.

Sorry I had no time to thank you. I discovered that by turning my radio switch off I could get power again.

My car started, and we drove off the bridge.

The bad: some people blowing their horns.

Made a bad situation worse.

The ugly: Someone hollered at us angrily to turn our emergency lights on.

Lights don't work without electricity!

Thank you for printing this, and thank goodness there are still some good people around.

Kasimir Drzyzga, Ocala

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