I look forward to receiving the paper every Thursday. I live in Hillsboro Beach and I know I am going to find out everything I want to know about what is going on in my town and surrounding towns. Keep up the good work!

Janet Hennessy

HillsboroBeach

Hopefully it won’t be President John McCain and VP Sarah Palin

Dear Editor:

Let’s hope it’s not another Bush four years with the election of John and Sarah. [McCain] is a 72-year-old who has refused to fully disclose his health history and whose first major decision was to recruit Sarah Palin for his running mate (A decision alone that should disqualify him for the office of President). He’s rejected even the weakest renewable energy programs or supporting improving fuel-efficiency standards. In a time when the country is facing the worst housing crisis in the memory of most Americans, McCain couldn’t even recall how many homes he owns. More huge tax breaks for the wealthy and the oil companies… John McCain — who finds it funny to take issues as serious as the instability in Iran and sing a silly song about “bombing Iran” in public, whose own campaign has been nothing but distorted lies about Senator Obama. Our beloved country is in the very fight of her life; this is not a dress rehearsal. Not me, I’ve seen the last eight years and I don’t want more of the same, and that’s just what we would get with McSame – a much older Bush but with an uncontrollable temper. More war anyone?

Bill Carey

Pompano Beach

To the thief who took our political sign

Dear Editor:

I’m not mad; just curious. Why would you trespass and commit petty theft against a neighbor … to stifle a plastic sign?

What are you afraid of? I know the talking heads tell you that people who think differently than you are traitors. But I love this country just as much as you.

Maybe nobody explained to you how our constitutional republic accommodates opposition. It works like a ship sailing into the wind. You tack one way for a while, then the other. Staying to port or starboard either takes you off course or you fall off the wind and go nowhere.

Of course, you believe that the true course is yours. I believe the same. I also believe that if the other side never got a turn at the tiller, this would not be a country either of us would love.

Just so you know, I have been in that house for 10 years, but my family got here a hundred years before the Revolution. My people are all over America, they fought for both the Union and the Confederacy; they served in many wars. They vote Republican and Democrat. Who knows? You and I might even be related.

There is a new sign in my front yard because I am not afraid of you and you don’t have to be afraid of me. Good luck to your candidate and God Bless you and your loved ones.

Daniel Bracewell

Deerfield Beach

10/02/08