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Sound Off: Oct. 5, 2024

By Sun Herald readers
International Longshoremen’s Association member Ramon Robinson holds a picket sign along with fellow union members outside the entrance to the Garden City Terminal on Tuesday as the ILA went on strike at the Georgia Ports Authority in Garden City, Georgia. The Carolinas face supply chain concerns on staple items as a port strike follows damage from Hurricane Helene.
International Longshoremen’s Association member Ramon Robinson holds a picket sign along with fellow union members outside the entrance to the Garden City Terminal on Tuesday as the ILA went on strike at the Georgia Ports Authority in Garden City, Georgia. The Carolinas face supply chain concerns on staple items as a port strike follows damage from Hurricane Helene. Richard Burkhart Savannah Morning News via Imagn Images

Unfair media

Media coverage of the longshoremen’s strike has been terribly unfair. The media always make a big deal out of how much inconvenience a strike will cause and how much it will cost, making the strikers look like selfish, self-centered people. How about giving equal attention to how much financial, physical, and psychological stress the owners of the pertinent companies inflict on their workers, and how much profit the owners make and keep for themselves. And who makes that money for the owners? The workers. They have a right to complain and strike when they think they are being treated unfairly. They should not be misrepresented by one-sided reporting.

Blight and danger

As Buc-ee’s, the state and the county continue the destruction of exit 24 at Pass Christian, we will soon have monstrous signage to deal with. Two variances increasing sign limits are on the next planning commission agenda. By raising the height and size limits we will be subjected to all the me-too’s that will follow. The variance will increase the size by nearly one fourth and height by forty percent. What sort of mess and dangers can we expect when the next high wind blows through? All in the name of economic development. A giant gas station. Gomer Pyle would have been proud.

Spot on

A recent contributor is absolutely correct. Civility will return to America when Donald Trump is defeated. No election has caused more division, neighbor against neighbor, than Trump.

Ukraine corrput?

Ukraine is corrupt? I’ve e never heard, or read, anything about this country being corrupt. Maybe it’s because I don’t watch FOX News.

Hurricane

So, Biden-Harris spent all the FEMA money on illegal aliens and don’t have money for Americans in the hurricane ravaged North Carolina? Oh, yeah, let me vote for four more years of this.

Tragic event

I was sad to hear about the 8-year-old who was fatally hit by the school bus. I have been advocating for years about the lack of safety precautions with school kids traveling to and from school. At GHS there are no sidewalks around the school or on the roads the local kids must walk. The bus stop for elementary kids at Victory Street and Loposser Road is at a four-way stop with overgrown trees and scrubs that is always littered with trash. Yet we have new tennis courts.

One more regulation

Hooray for the “More regulation” Sound Off. I want to add another: We need to stop companies from leaving behind expensive problems that taxpayers have to fix, such as property saturated by toxins. Companies should be required to set aside dedicated assets or have appropriate insurance for such possible needs before they are allowed to operate. Otherwise they walk away with a grin and leave the bill to you and me, the taxpayers.

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