The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - April 27, 2016
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Editorial - Opinion - Commentary
Letter to the Editor:
What Can Some Animals Hear that
Re: SHOULD REQUIRE CITIZEN INPUT, Pt. II
The Suncoast Parkway has been an issue since about 1994. It was set to eventually
We Can Not?
come in down at Red Level, for the last 22 years. She has been like chicken little about "the
sky is falling, the sky is falling", there again telling us we better get ready or they will create
an overpass as a bypass and leave Inglis to die. Hasn't happened.
Have you considered how
Another project, Port Citrus---down South of us on the Barge Canal. She did and said the
birds "hear" blizzards coming?
same thing. It was proven after several feasibility studies to be unfeasible and the Commis-
Birds have exceptional hearing but
sion in Citrus decided against throwing more and more good taxpayer money at an impos-
in a lower frequency range than nor-
sible project.
mal human hearing. Birds can actu-
There are more--but back to the Wastewater treatment feasibility study. A study was
ally hear bad weather approaching.
already done by Mitauer back during the term of Bill Lake as Mayor and it was determined
I am sure you have noticed that a
that it was not feasible. In 2014, Ralph Walker went before the Commission to explain
day or so prior to a major storm,
that our Planning Commission had already studied the issue and it was determined to be
birds are frantically feeding at your
unfeasible. Nothing about this area has changed other than our Town officials. Why must
feeder. These birds hear the storm
we continue to throw good tax money after bad? Listening to the meeting, fear tactics are
The Newscaster
The
used that if we don't do this now, the Government is going to come inS. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446 for it. Also,
coming and prepare
5093 and MAKE us do
it, and then we will be stranded without the money. Bear in mind, Phone: money489-4588 Fax: (727) 362-4788 and eagles can
birds such as hawks
GRANT (352) is Gov-
ernment money paid by thel,taxpayers---it is Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.comIEmail, Debbie Russell, Editor: debbienewscaster@gmail.com air changes. This
actually hear the low frequency sounds of approaching thermal
Emai Tom Russell, not FREE money. "Kudos" to Commissioner
Tully and Commissioner Brennanefor thenewscaster.com ·"you should be ashamed of · history.newscasterarchives.com ·depend on thermal currents in order to soar.
is good because their very lives thehealthcaster.com
Websit s: voting "Nay", and the newscasterarchives.com
Birds can also detect very minute differences in air pressure. You could say they
yourself award"goes to Commissioners Webb, Morin and Williams voting "Yeah". In fact,
have barometers in their ears. Birds need to be very aware of the weather and the
Commissioner Tully was uncomfortable with it NOT being taken before the people and let
changes taking place in order to survive.
them decide. Dmerrittt is trying to say that the grant money, should we get it will pay for
Other animals also have incredible hearing abilities. Whales communi-
the laying of the lines up to each person's home. Then the homeowner pays a plumber to
connect it to the house, that's it. But what about the monthly bill collected by the Town? In
cate in the infrasound range with each other at distances of more than 100 miles.
doing my research the average is usually around $50.00 a month. What planet does she live
Male elephants also use these frequencies to communicate up to six miles away.
on if she believes that the majority of our citizens who are living paycheck to paycheck or
God cares for the very life of His creatures and has designed them with the abili-
on fixed incomes, can even come close to affording another bill, regardless of the amount?
ties they need to survive.
This decision was made under pressure from the Mayor and has left the citizens nottwo for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall
out in
Are sparrows sold
the cold. The Mayor's tactics of "it has to be done NOW" is going to cost the citizens in ground apartyour Father. So do not fear; you are more valuable than
the
to the from
end and the worst part is, she doesn't seem to care. Unfortunately many bad decisions are
many sparrows.
made in this Town based on "The sky is falling!" tactics, decisions are made spur mo-
of the
- Matthew 10:29,31 (NASB)
ment with lasting consequences. Wake up Citizens of Inglis---- we need to make our voices
heard! God bless America and God Bless Inglis--Rhonda Kline, Inglis
sendby BobAllen, Biologist-
te
Based on, Inspired Evidence a book by Bruce Malone, 2011
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Re: Inglis Commission
Last week Ms. Kline pointed out how in Inglis the Mayor and Commission can
decide to do whatever they wish, in approving an expenditure of $175,000 for a last min- a waste of the citizen's tax money.
They make decisions that benefit themselves and their friends and are above the
ute feasibility study for a wastewater treatment plant project that should require public
workshops and hearings before being put out for competitive bid. Who is going to get the law. As everyone knows the only two things that the Town does for it's citizens are to pro-
contract? No citizen can find out because the April 4th Committee Meeting minutes are un- vide a topflight volunteer Fire Dept and a high quality Water Distribution System with an
available 3 WEEKS after the meeting. This the same kind of under-handed conduct that we over-worked and under-paid Maintenance Staff that doesn't deserve to be forced into illegal
thought would be done with when we got rid of the last self-serving mayor. Unfortunately officials. You don't need a Town to provide water
conduct by over-paid and useless Town
Mayor Merritt believes she also is above the law as was demonstrated by her violation of and fire protection, and it's beginning to look like the citizens would be better off without
the Hatch Act and Town Code by forcing the Town Maintenance Staff into removing a legal the burden of an expensive and wasteful Mayor, Commission and Town Staff that seems
temporary political sign belonging Commissioner White on the day of the election. This duplicating County services.
dedicated to themselves and
Charlie Botts, Inglis
was done supposedly according to the County Sherriff s Office on orders from Mayor Mer-
Crystal River woman killed in
ritt and a determination from the Town's unqualified and inexperienced Code Enforcement
Officer Warren's determination that a sign in the back oftruck was
a an "illegal permanent
sign". Of course he ignored all the other truly illegal on
political signs that were illegally
Chassahowitzka traffic crash
public R.O.W.'s instead of being on private propertyrequired byCode because
as Town they
weren't Mr. White's.
Thirty year-old Rachael Elizabeth Trail, 30, Crystal River, lost her life, April 19, in
This is a clear violation of Federal Election Law that evidently is ok in Inglis when
a single vehicle traffic crash in Chassahowitzka. The crash occurred at 8:43 am. According
you have a grudge against someone because he asks questions about how the Town's money
to the Florida Highway Patrol, Ms. Trail was driving a 2008 Mazda SUV, traveling north
is being wasted. The Town of Inglis already has TWO (2) wastewater feasibility studies on
on U.S. Hwy. 19, just north of the Hernando County line. For unknown reasons, Trail lost
the shelves that they spent tens of thousands of dollars on in the past and a former Planning
one at cost on numerous control of the vehicle, departed power pole. Trailtraveled onto theinjuries and expiredMazda
the roadway and
east shoulder. The
Commissioner and contractor has offered to produce littleor no
rotated clockwise and struck a
sustained fatal
at the
occasions, and has been rejected. So which engineering company tofrom
is going benefit
scene of the crash. The report stated that Ms. Trail was not wearing a seatbelt.
this giveaway? Where are the Town minutes? Why were people that came to vote before 10
able to Presidential
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