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USA Today
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- Business
- USA Today
‘American Dream' making a comeback as President Trump makes country great again
Opinions expressed in Letters to the Editor are those of our readers and not the Pensacola News Journal. In order for letters to be considered for publication, they must be 250 words or less and include your full name, address and phone number. Only your name and city of residence will be published. Submission does not guarantee publication. Email submissions to opinion@ 'American Dream' making a comeback because of President Trump President Donald Trump's skill as a negotiator is clearly illustrated by major companies, e.g., GE, IBM, J&J, Apple, Merck, and others planning to build factories in America. More jobs plus new tax deductions create opportunities for all Americans. Joe Biden's open-door policy released millions of illegal aliens into the United States. Remember the caravans of thousands of illegals walking from South America through Mexico to the U.S.? Many of the women and children were abused or killed. President Trump and his staff are working hard to arrest and deport the most dangerous illegals first. Unfortunately, liberal Democrats stand in his way at every turn. He has even had to call out the National Guard to maintain the rule of law in California. I for one am sick and tired of liberal Democrats doing nothing but complaining about Trump rather than helping to 'Make America Great Again.' God bless America. William Thomas, Pensacola Why can't utility companies share conduits already in place? For years we have had Cox underground cables in our neighborhood to locate every time we want to plant a bush. Then, this spring, AT&T puts in their fiber cable service by digging up patches of our yards, tunneling under driveways and installing separate cable conduits and access boxes (and incidentally busting the water main in two places on 12th Avenue). Now we learn that T-Mobile fiber is going to do the same thing AT&T did (hopefully not bust the water main). Who is approving these contracts? Why can't they make these companies share the conduits they already have in place? Will every company who wants to provide internet cable to our neighborhood have to chop up our lawns and add access boxes to my little 50 foot wide front yard? I already have a large Florida Power & Light transformer, a large Cox Cable box, an old AT&T phone box, a cover plate over the new AT&T box, and a street light post. I don't know where T-Mobile will put their box. I don't have any more room. I know all of this is on the utility easement, but there ought to be some type of compensation for having a utility center in half of my front yard! James Day, Pensacola No excuse not to fix Jefferson Street parking lot elevator As a local resident I pay for parking all the time. In spite of the parking income the city collects, the elevator at the Jefferson Street parking lot has remained broken for weeks. I have spoken to some of the local businesses, and they have unfortunately not gotten any help with it. The city needs to get it fixed. Stanford Morse, Pensacola Pace's U.S. 90 and Woodbine intersection is a mess To whoever designed the intersection at U.S. 90 and Woodbine in Pace, you can't fix stupid. Bill Helms, Pace Early learning development pivotal to healthy environment for kids Early childhood development is an ever-increasing mission. Over the years the wellbeing of our children must remain the highest priority, Understanding the ever-increasing needs of each individual child is crucial. Individual Educational Planning is of the upmost importance and should be based on each child's individual developmental need, and not a majority census. As the 'early learning teacher' we have a crucial role in the overall development of each child within the early learning environment. So, facilitating and understanding the child's needs, not only highlights the 'individual educational needs of children,' but through careful observations the teacher can also track the 'emotional, social, physical, and other needs associated with the child. This is pivotal. By providing a loving, safe, educational, and healthy environment for children to learn, grow, and develop, children have support and opportunities needed for years to come, regardless of their ethnicity, social, economic, educational, or religious background. This simple formula opens a gateway for children to receive the essential ingredients needed on so many levels. Elizabeth Wright, Cantonment 'Alligator Alcatraz' is nothing but Florida's concentration camp Florida has a concentration camp! Giving it a catchy name, "Alligator Alcatraz", does not change the fact that people are being swept up and placed into horrible living conditions without cause. Go online to contact your senators or call senators Rick Scott and Ashley Moody at 202-224-3121 in Washington, D.C. (This is the number for all federal senators). You get the switchboard and will be sent to their office, probably to leave a message, so have one ready. If you need to, borrow my message: "Close down Florida's concentration camp, Alligator Alcatraz. Shame on America. Shame on Florida". Are you afraid to call? Afraid this will put you on a "list"? That says it all, doesn't it. The way we lose our rights is by not standing up for others' rights. I am a proud Navy retiree who will never give up on America. Stand together or fall apart. Ruth C. Edwards, Pensacola Downtown Pensacola parking causing businesses to lose support In response to Jim Little's article on downtown parking and Mayor DC. Reeves, who thinks it's working: You have no idea how many people no longer shop or dine downtown Pensacola who live in Escambia County. You apparently can't put data to that number. But I, for one, no longer come and support local restaurants and shopping in downtown Pensacola because of it. Most of the people I discuss this with feel the same. We have 'Pensacola' in our addresses but feel we cannot support our city. So sad after all that Mr. Studer did to make it a viable downtown area. When the businesses begin to fail, maybe you will again address the 'data'. Kathy Cook, Pensacola History will look back on MAGA and 'Alligator Alcatraz' in shame While thinking of the unfortunate people locked up by Trump's ICE night riders in 'Alligator Alcatraz,' maybe think about what the average "illegal" has done. Things like put the roof on your house after a hurricane, picked crops in conditions no American will tolerate, cleaned your trashed hotel room, grunt work in the background of practically every DIY TV program, spent their money in town on food and shelter, not on financial planners, and picked feathers off of chickens and guts out of pigs on processing lines. All those jobs Americans won't do any more, but the "illegals" are eager to get. They showed up for a scheduled immigration hearing and were kidnaped by masked men with guns. They are "illegal" only by the arbitrary definition of powerful people with absolutely no empathy. The undocumented workers are simply poor people trying to get through the week, like on the Statue of Liberty, following a route traveled for 15.000 years. What is wrong with you Trump and MAGA people? Alligator Alcatraz is terrible. You should be ashamed, which is where history is going to put you. Grover Diehl, Gulf Breeze Never miss a story: Subscribe to the Pensacola News Journal using the link at the bottom of the page under Stay Connected.
USA Today
23-07-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Commanders and Guardians don't need to revert to racist names to be great again
Instead of focusing on the names of professional sports teams, maybe Trump should focus on releasing the Epstein files and lowering egg prices, as he promised. Help me out, Wisconsin. Please, no one tell President Donald Trump that Milwaukee used to have an MLB team called the Braves or that Marquette University used to be known as the Warriors. I don't want to jump into the way-back machine. You might have heard Trump is urging the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians to revert to their former team names, which included derogatory terms based on racist caricatures. He even suggested that if the Commanders did not change their name back, he would obstruct the NFL team's efforts to build a new $3.7 billion football stadium in Washington, DC. This stance is part of Trump's agenda to "Make America Great Again," even if it offends Native Americans who have criticized the previous names and images for decades. This can be seen as his latest attempt at what he believes is patriotism. I'm afraid he wants to take America so far back to a time when there was separate water fountains for Black and White people. Trump claims Native Americans 'want this to happen' In a July 20 post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump claimed that Native Americans want the names reverted. "There is a big clamoring for this," wrote Trump. "Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago." I'm uncertain how many Native Americans Trump consulted to conclude that "massive numbers" want the name changed back. Even if that were true – which I doubt – it raises the question of why they would like the name to be reverted in the first place. Take our poll: Trump wants Washington Commanders to revert to old name. Should they? | Opinion Forum Following George Floyd's killing by a Minneapolis police officer, there was a renewed effort to remove Confederate statues seen as symbols of slavery and racism and to eliminate racist sports team names. By the end of 2020, nearly 100 Confederate monuments had been taken down, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Efforts begun in the Biden administration to rename offensive and derogatory place names – including many in Wisconsin – were halted by Trump-appointed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. The Washington football team rebranded as the Commanders in 2022 following the controversy surrounding their original name. Similarly, the Cleveland baseball team changed their name to the Guardians in 2021 after going by their original name since 1915. Neither Washington nor Cleveland appears willing to cave to pressure to revert to names they used in the past simply to appease Trump, and they should firmly stand by this decision. Furthermore, if Trump interferes with the Commanders' efforts to secure a new stadium, the NFL should consider legal action. This could prevent Trump from targeting other teams in similar ways. What would stop him from pushing teams to return to leather helmets or reinstating outdated rules intended to protect players? Milwaukee Brewers, Marquette Golden Eagles changed names Imagine what will happen if Trump discovers Milwaukee's past? Before moving to Atlanta in 1966, the MLB franchise used a logo with a laughing Native American with a mohawk and feather. What about my alma mater, Marquette University? Will he pressure the school to change from the Golden Eagles back to 'the Warriors,' which in 1961-71 featured Willie Wampum, a Native American with a giant cartoonish head and Indigenous clothing? I must admit that I had a hard time adjusting to the name changes for Washington and Cleveland. The team change for the nation's capital was especially difficult for me because, as a football historian, I remember the great battles between the Washington (derogatory name) and the Green Bay Packers. Do you remember the 1983 football game between Washington and Green Bay at Lambeau Field, which became the second-highest scoring game in Monday Night Football history? Washington's quarterback, Joe Theismann, and the Packers' quarterback, Lynn Dickey, combined to throw for nearly 800 yards. The Packers won the game 48-47 with a field goal by Jan Stenerud. Opinion: Trump bans AP and words he doesn't like. 'Free speech' was never about the First Amendment. This game quickly made the Washington team my second favorite. Although its logo featured an image of Blackfeet Chief Two Guns White Calf, I didn't find anything wrong with the depiction of the Native American with a red face. For years, I hadn't fully understood the significance and racial implications of the derogatory name and imagery associated. That changed after a conversation with one of my former editors, Ricardo Pimentel. He posed a thought-provoking question: "James, what if the Washington team was called the Washington N-words?" While no one would ever take it that far, his words made me rethink and recognize the impact of such imagery. This is something that Trump should consider before interfering with professional sports. Instead, he might want to focus on delivering on promises he made to the American people, you know about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein case files and lowering egg prices. James E. Causey is an Ideas Lab reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where this column originally appeared. Reach him at jcausey@ or follow him on X: @jecausey
AU Financial Review
20-07-2025
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Can Meg O'Neill deliver Woodside's $100b gamble?
Donald Trump was beaming as he stood on a stage at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Dressed in a blue suit and cranberry-coloured tie, the US president was on his first scheduled trip abroad after being re-elected. Trump was attending the exclusive US-Saudi Investment Forum, and he was there to do deals, tremendous deals – deals that would Make America Great Again. Travelling with him were entrepreneurs and visionaries who also happened to be some of the world's most powerful business titans. Among them were Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Tesla's Elon Musk, Amazon's Andy Jassy and OpenAI's Sam Altman. Also present was Meg O'Neill, the 54-year-old chief executive of Woodside Energy.
LeMonde
20-07-2025
- Politics
- LeMonde
'The Epstein case is a new version of the classic conspiracy against authentic America'
Since his arrest for orchestrating a child sexual abuse network and his death in custody on August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein's name has been continuously associated with various conspiracy theories. As soon as news of his death broke, the idea that "Epstein didn't kill himself" went viral within far-right online communities. Behind this phrase lies the theory that justice was prevented from completing its work, stopped by powerful and secret forces intent on protecting their own unspeakable interests. The suicide narrative, according to this belief, was merely a convenient – perhaps too convenient – smokescreen to cover up the truth: surveillance cameras (conveniently?) failed, his cell was (deliberately?) left unmonitored, medical reports (intentionally?) contradicted each other, and so on. In this version, everything is connected, nothing happens by chance, and everything is a matter of lies and manipulation. Epstein's supposed list of clients guilty of sexual violence remains fantastical. But it is true that the parties organized by the financier were attended by well-known figures from politics, tech, film, and music, such as Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Michael Jackson – and even Donald Trump. What better fuel for the most lurid speculation about a network of elite child abusers orchestrating their own impunity? The Epstein case thus encapsulated a worldview and rhetoric typical of binary conspiratorial and populist discourses: them against us, the threatening other (elites, minorities, foreigners) against the good and virtuous people. From 2019 on, for conspiracy-minded circles of the alt-right, for QAnon supporters, and for fans of commentator Alex Jones, Epstein became a new version of the classic plot against authentic America, involving a satanic network, Hollywood, the deep state, the liberal left, or the Democratic Party. In this narrative, Trump was cast as the would-be champion of the real America, supposedly set to restore true values: "Make America Great Again!"
Axios
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Axios
What to know about Miami's "Good Trouble Lives On" protests
Tens of thousands of people are expected to protest the Trump administration again on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the death of civil rights leader and former congressman John Lewis. Why it matters: Lewis was one of the most vocal critics of President Trump during his first administration. Trump's 2017 inauguration was the first that Lewis missed during his three-decade tenure in Congress. By the numbers: 56,000 people RSVP'd for more than 1,500 events across the country as of Friday, organizers said. Zoom in: In Miami, one rally will be at The Roots Bookstore & Market from 4pm-8:30pm, while the second is planned for 5pm-7pm at Florida International University Green Library. A third rally in Davie will be from 4:30pm-6pm at the entrance to Nova Southeastern University. What they're saying: "Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of action to respond to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration," the protest website said. "Together, we'll remind them that in America, the power lies with the people." The other side: "Nearly 80 million Americans gave President Trump a historic mandate to Make America Great Again and he is delivering on that promise in record time," White House spokesperson Liz Huston said in a statement. Context: Lewis, the son of sharecroppers, grew up in rural Alabama. The civil rights leader was arrested more than 40 times and injured repeatedly but remained an advocate for nonviolent protest, per the Library of Congress. "Rosa Parks inspired us to get in trouble," he said in 2019. "And I've been getting in trouble ever since. She inspired us to find a way, to get in the way, to get in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble."
