Sound Off For April 8 and April 9
Sound Off for April 8
Golf carts
After reading all of the complaints about golf carts, I wonder when and if the cities are going to do something before some child gets seriously hurt. It seems as if every city that allows golf carts on the streets are having the same problems. The other day on Courthouse Road in Gulfport, which doesn’t allow carts, there were kids on the road in one. In Biloxi, go to the area around Sunkist in the late afternoon and look at the carts being driven by underage kids with four or five kids on them. I was just told that the speed limit in that area was just lowered so that carts could be driven if they met the criteria for them. Cities, please act before some child gets seriously hurt and the poor driver of the car that hits them has to live with that forever.
COVID tests
On April 2, the federal government announced that people 65 and older can get 8 free at-home COVID tests per month. I tried these websites with no success: CMS.gov, COVIDTESTS.gov, CVS, Medicare.gov. So it looks like it’s impossible to order the test kits, and of course it’s impossible to talk to a human at any of these agencies.
Emails from Palazzo
Cong. Steven Palazzo must be running for re-election. He’s doing his best to communicate with late invitations to join his virtual town halls, text messages asking for input and mailings about all the good he’s doing. Bless his heart.
It’s more than ‘just business’
To the Sound Off writer who said Memorial Hospital layoffs are “just business”: If you run your business appropriately there is no need for layoffs. It’s people’s lives. Manage better.
Sound Off for April 9
Animal deaths
When will the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department release the name and motive of the arsonist that set numerous fires around the Latimer community? God knows how many animals died because of him.
Misspellings
Our congressman is mailing a glossy flyer documenting his accomplishments, including the principals (sic) he was raised on and the principals (sic) he lives by. Makes you wonder which schools employed those principals.
Supreme Court justices
114 out of 120 Supreme Court justices have been white males and heads were still spinning over Ketanji Jackson’s nomination.
Gulfport roads
Gulfport officials continue to push for a new road and an Interstate 10 overpass. There is no logic been provided to date. If you want traffic to flow to I-10, Exit 31, have it turn on 28th Street to Canal Road, north to Exit 31. The money saved should be used to make smart traffic lights on U.S. 49 to help traffic flow. The rest could be used to fix the numerous roads and parks in Gulfport. Who really benefits on the proposed road and overpass?
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This story was originally published April 9, 2022 at 12:00 AM.