NIL exposes college sports payouts
My husband played basketball at a prominent Midwestern basketball power in the 1960s. One of his best friends was the star quarterback on the football team. The two would go together every month to an electrical supply company where the quarterback would receive his monthly “stipend.” Pay for play has always been part of college athletics. It’s just not behind the scenes anymore.
Janet Pauley Umatilla
Once-idealistic America is dead
I am dismayed at the petty, childish discourse in the current presidential election campaigns. I am 70 years old and have voted in every election since I was 18. I cannot recall any previous campaign discussions consisting of immature name-calling, criminal prosecutions, libel, semantics of what constitutes insurrection, who forgot what boxes of papers, elected officials not accountable for any illegal acts and who can stop whom from enacting any important legislation that might help working Americans. In this absurd atmosphere we are abandoning our allies, kowtowing to authoritarian hostile countries, creating a wider wealth divide, eroding civil rights, enabling greedy corporations and standing idly by while whole populations are decimated.
My America had high ideals of more freedom (not less), respect and equality for all citizens (not ostracization), standing up for democracy around the world (not turning a blind eye) and free and fair elections (not tampering and interference). What happened?
S.M. Feiner Orlando
Better off with Trump
I know that despite reading all of the Trump-hating letters submitted and published that there are many people in Florida who realize that we were better off under the Trump administration than under this current one.
People had more money in their pockets. Gasoline was much cheaper. There was no “woke” politics going on.
I honestly believe that the country and the world will be better off, safer and more prosperous under Trump than under the Biden administration that just keeps printing and spending money everywhere.
We need a strong president who scares dictators like Putin, Xi or Kim Jong Un, not a weakling like Biden.
Thank you to those voters who realize the truth.
Love him or hate him, he will be great for our country, but of course, if you are a Democrat, like many of you are, you will disagree with my words.
Keep loving the millions coming into our country illegally, and keep spending all that money we don’t have.
Harold Brown Delray Beach
Trump ‘bloodbath’ comment needed context
Here we go again! Comments taken out of context are blown out of proportion. Donald Trump’s threat of a bloodbath were in regards to the auto industry, according to his campaign staff (Letters to the editor: “Trump threats are dangerous,” March 22). He made the statement because he proposes a tariff on electric foreign auto imports, specifically Chinese autos and parts that are flooding the industry. As the U.S. does in the oil industry, Trump wants the U.S. to mine and build its own products. Please, people, get all the facts before you make your opinions known.
Ron Webb Umatilla
