News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • A40

40A SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2019 THE NEWS-PRESS Deserve more Recently, I turned on LeeTV to listen to the Board of County Commissioners regular Tuesday morning meeting. To my surprise, only Muzak was playing as public information slides were scrolling on the screen, 30 minutes after the meeting start time. I checked Lee website again to see if there was any new information about the meeting nothing. Thinking that the county might be experiencing one of its frequent in broadcasting its meetings, I called county and was told that there a quorum so the meeting was canceled. The complete failure to in anyway alert the public that its regular Tuesday morning BoCC meeting (and afternoon budget workshop) had both been canceled is yet another example of the complete disregard for the public and its citizens.

Not only do the commissioners (with the exception of Frank Mann) ignore the clear wishes of the citizens on such vital issues as mining and wetlands, recently they literally forgot that the public was a part of their meetings and even think to let us know that they had can- celed them. The citizens of Lee County deserve more from the county government than this. Darla Letourneau, Sanibel Openly admired Forty years later, Woodward and Bernstein said that Nixon was much worse than they previously thought at the time. Trump is much like Nixon. Both prefer to attack and never quit.

Both conventional rules. Both di- vide the world into loyalists and ene- mies. Both courted the white working class. Both shunned intellectuals. Both sought adulation and power.

Nixon openly admired Trump. Doris Brown, Fort Myers Wearing blinders It absolutely amazes me as to how profoundly the President Trump haters can continue to undermine the presi- actions. The very actions that will enhance the American way of life. A recent example is their behavior about the presidents visit to the U.K. The Dems in Congress, the media and those who have public time on TV like the Many of who know nothing about what is going on and what the president is accomplishing.

They seem to constantly be on a page as the rest of the world and wear blinders when it comes to anything the admini- stration or President Trump is doing. No one seems to be able to answer the question, why? Why do these people hate our country so much? Why do they hate our president so much? This hatred has caused an unprecedented gridlock. So much so that Congress is accom- plishing nothing. They have only one line of thought, hate, hate, hate. All of the candidates for the Demo- cratic nomination are part of the swamp and have no from one anoth- er.

They are all extremist with the same socialist platforms. Most of them we have never heard of before. God bless us all. Gary Olson, North Fort Myers Name sources The News-Press, Naples Daily News, USA Today, Gannett, the Associated Press and virtually every other news re- porting organization continues to report quotes from unnamed sources on the condition of anonymity. I just said that the sky is falling but I have to reveal my name, in order to per- haps get published in the Mailbag.

I just hope that sometime in the future, re- ports are only reported by named sourc- es, after all if you identify and name the source it is nothing more than a rumor or opinion. Happy to announce that the sky is not falling, and I do have to reveal my name, as not an unnamed source. James Kibler, south Fort Myers Reveal truths There is an old Chinese proverb that is the path to The situation of governance in Wash- ington seems to be in a chaos mode on both sides of the aisle in Congress and beyond. Maybe this upcoming election will re- veal the real truths of what is truthfully happening. Richard A.

Ferreira, Bonita Springs Just relax I was surprised to learn in a recent let- ter that people created God. I know that. No one talks or tweets about it; not even on Facebook. Regardless, the writer made the wick- ed assertion that it automatically caused women to be subservient to men. At that point, I felt faint and stopped reading to inform my husband he had to make breakfast and clean the house.

I suppose the equal and opposite ver- sion of creation would be the Bible. A lot of people do read and talk about that, es- pecially my brother-in-law, who says God is not too happy with the ways things are going down here and that we are living in the end times. Hmm, that could explain why so many folks are interested in going to the moon or Mars. And now sorry I wast- ed money fertilizing the lawn. Yes, these are scary times: many na- tional disasters (weather and people), oaths of with God deleted, borders without walls, investigations without end.

But, people should just relax and try to have fun, to do and say silly things like this letter, for instance and like created Jan Ganter, south Fort Myers Swamp living I recently home and seemed to have landed in the middle of a President Trump swampland. All the Trump-I-Ga- tors seemed to be surrounding me. So as not to disturb the nest I quietly sat and watched and listened. What I observed were the exact opposite ings that I had concluded upon investi- gating this presidency through many di- verse sources, both pro and anti Donald J. Trump.

I would highly recommend for people to go out and read and investigate for themselves. The Trump-I-gators each described current events as if a facsimile machine was on constant print mode. We need to simply look and listen to the man him- self. If your moral and patriotic compass then points to him, follow it. Nothing I can say would ever describe the swamp the way he can.

Don Macchioni, Fort Myers Elitist hypocrisy One has to at least be amused at this college bribery scandal mostly seeming- ly to California universities. It appears that most, if not all, of the cul- prits are rich Hollywood movie and or television stars. Apparently, due to their wealth and fame they knowingly bribed their way into getting their children into college by lying and cheating. Great example they set for their children and their adoring fan base. These actions also in many cases cost more deserving, children of lesser wealth to lose scholarships or admission all together.

My question is, these the same people who rail about the so- called injustice of the wealthy and their white privilege? getting more con- fused daily. John McWilliams, Fort Myers Cost everything In response to a recent letter about military service published only two days after Memorial Day, I am shocked that The News-Press printed it at this time. My husband was a soldier. He was not poor and undereducated. After serv- ing as a medic in Vietnam, he graduated with a dual degree in chemistry and mathematics, and returned to the Army.

With the many other highly educated he worked for peace. We served in Berlin for the peace of Europe. It cost him his life. His life. Our lives.

He mea- sured radiation after the Chernobyl acci- dent and died. The letter was an insult to all veter- ans, whether alive or passed. All veter- ans have risked their lives, whether or not they have seen combat. This does not make them young, poor, middle class or It makes them strong, caring for those they do not know. I do not see where the author admits to serving.

He just thinks everyone else should while he enjoys freedom. It free. It cost service members and their families everything. Ellen Beato, Cape Coral MAILBAG DOUG MACGREGOR As devotees of the 1978 cinematic masterwork know, the motto of the Faber College was: is While per- haps a bit and lacking in the usual feigned gravitas, the motto does go a long way in explaining our world to- day, particularly as it relates to the pop- ular game show Before Monday night, James Holz- hauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, seemed unbeatable. Night after night he not only won, he won big.

He deployed what seemed like a riverboat swagger but what was actually a precise methodology. He went for the high- dollar answers and always bet big on the Daily Doubles. He mastered buzzer tim- ing. So successful was he that observers proclaimed that he had gamed the sys- tem, even it. And then, after 32 consecutive victo- ries that left him on the brink of break- ing the record for most money won, he was beaten by a librarian.

Like 35-year-old Holzhauer, 27-year- old Emma Boettcher had long studied the game to the point of writing a mas- thesis on it. But the main reason she won is that she knows a lot of She is, after all, a librarian, one em- ployed by the University of Chicago, among the most prestigious institutes of learning on the planet. Both she and Holzhauer went through the entire game without getting a single answer wrong. Some analysts will no doubt attribute her win to dexterity with the buzzer, or to the dynamics of having a third strong contestant. But the reality is that Boettcher and Holzauer never would have gotten so far without having a lot going on between their ears.

Depending on how many more games Boettcher wins, her victory could be seen as a kind of cultural moment in the vein of Bobby Riggs versus Billie Jean King. Holzhauer, notwithstanding his obvi- ous intellectual acumen, was a kind of cult hero to the middle-age, modestly educated, sports-addicted American male. call him Sports Man. Sports Man thinks professional gamblers are totally awesome because they make a living doing what others do for fun. (Never mind that many are actually math nerds.) success made a hot topic on sports talk ra- dio, a place not generally noted for its er- udition.

Sports Man has no such for li- brarians. He sees them as restrained, precise and always telling people to be quiet. For Holzhauer to be taken down by one is a staggering loss. For millions of others, the opposite is true. There is the obvious gender issue.

Nine of the top 10 winners of consecu- tive games on are men. More important, though, is the blow win strikes for education, academic rigor, book smarts. Highly educated professionals getting a lot of attention these days. President Donald Trump have much use for them. Candidates and journalists are focused on working-class voters.

win is a statement for un- derappreciated overachievers every- where. The bibliothecaries are no doubt her victory this week. In its own small way, win shows how education still matters. And how knowledge is, indeed, good. take Importance of for $1,000, Alex Emma Boettcher beats superstar James Holzhauer on Monday.

JEOPARDY PRODUCTIONS The Editorial Board USA TODAY WASHINGTON If there was love all during President state visit to the United King- dom, as he tweeted Monday, the partic- ipants royal and decidedly otherwise were deceptively discreet. From the coverage, one might have thought that Madame Tussauds had teamed up with George Lucas to create a charade parade of mechanized wax What a crew of dour sourpuss- es they were. But then, what would one expect when New most-famous hillbilly drags his entire entourage to sup at the sumptuous table of the Queen of Eng- land as though word had leaked of an all-you-can-eat and free booze over at Eatery? Donald Trump may have plenty of dough and houses dripping with gold, but his money has that new smell, and his crass behavior is testament to the adage and more recently Countess Luann de song buy you To which I would only add, The countess should know. Marry- ing royalty get you there, either, apparently. But then, Luann, as in Real Housewives of New York perhaps was being ironic.

See PARKER, Page 41A Kathleen Parker Columnist Money buy you class.