Sound Off: July 10, 2025

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

New stadium

Didn’t the Gulfport taxpayers just spend a ton of money refurbishing Milner stadium? The new stadium makes no sense.

The buck stops where?

If you are in charge and something happens on your watch, you are ultimately responsible. Own it and fix it.

I’ve now heard it all

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said someone asking about blame in relation to the fatal flooding was “the word choice of losers.” I always thought attempting to find out what went wrong and fixing it was to be commended, but maybe the guy in charge in Texas feels differently. Can’t imagine why.

Certain as sunrise

A writer asked how long it would take President Taco to blame the Texas floods on Biden — after his weekly golf trip, on the NJ tarmac when being first questioned about the cuts to NWS and the NOAA satellites regarding the warnings to the Texas folks, the first thing out of Trump’s mouth was, “you look at that water situation, that was really the Biden setup...”

Blame Trump

Makes no difference what it is, rain or shine, feast or famine, dead or alive, cancer cured, the sky’s falling or not, to Democrats, it’s all President Trump’s fault.

No list?

So after years of delay in releasing the Epstein list of clients involved in underage sex activities, Pam Bondi claims there’s no list. This after she told FOX News it was on her desk.

USNS Medgar Evers

Defense Sec. Hegseth wants Navy ships to be named after warriors. Medgar Evers was a warrior who served in a Navy uniform during WWII and again in civilian clothes in a segregated Mississippi, facing several death threats, before ultimately being fatally shot in the back in his own driveway. I am a 75-year-old Caucasian US Navy veteran, and I find it insulting in the extreme to have Medgar Evers considered as anything but a courageous warrior for our country.

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