Don't you think it is about time you write about all the taxes and fees we were hit with in the Cape thanks to the city manager and incompetent people we have in charge in City Hall.

Let start with our city manager, Mr. Szerlag, we have a tax on our electric bill and fire assessment tax and property tax increase thanks to him.He can't even come to terms with LCEC let look at all the money he wasted on that and still no agreement.

Then we have his assistant, Mr Illczyszyn, who is on paid leave since December and now back to work and no one has any idea what is job is but he makes over $115.000 a year. Just another example of the waste of tax dollars. 

And to add to more tax problems we have a councilman, Carioscia, who wants more parks and improvement and wants more taxes from the people of this city,like we have a shortage of parks in this city?

When is all of this going to stop? Did they forget they have people in this city on fixed income or they just don't care. Let's hold these people in City Hall accountable for what they are doing and start looking for people who will look after the residents of city and stop the waste of tax dollars. 

Roy Spegele, Cape Coral 

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Women wanted

Well, Well. The Sunday paper mailbag with 11 contributions by men and no women? The person that made this choice was a man, of course. 

Maybe women have decided that it is useless to write.

Gwen Leftton, Fort Myers

Happy medium

The closing of 8,000 Starbucks coffee shops seems to be ridiculous overkill to appease political correctness. Yes, the arrest of two men was unfortunate and extremely avoidable. Yes, the manager of the store should be held to task. Yes, anti-discrimination training modules should be updated and employees required to complete them. However, inconveniencing thousands of Starbucks customers is not the way to rectify the situation.

Inviting the non-paying public to avail themselves of seating and use the restrooms is solution looking for a problem. If a individual urgently needs to use the restroom, then let them. 

However, who will speak for the thousands of Starbucks paying customers if not I? Starbucks customers are willing to pay a little more for their coffee in anticipation of a pleasant atmosphere (No, I am not an artsy liberal wearing Birkenstock shoes and paying with my family's trust fund money. I am a conservative Republican.), available seating and a restroom that does not have the aromatic ambiance of a big city subway station. is that too much to ask?

Larry Boggio, North Fort Myers


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More needed

Another week; another school shooting.  And we all know what needs to be done, but no one knows how to make it happen because we want to stop these crazy shootings once and for all.  But we won't be surprised when it happens again. 

The young student in Texas said she was scared but not surprised. Maybe we need to take "prevention" as a word and goal and argument out of the equation.  Nothing can be prevented but many things can be mitigated and ameliorated. 

Let's quit dragging out our lame notions and retorts based on ultimate solutions.  The sheer number of guns in a culture where guns are protected and loved in the hands of kids with access and issues who are angry and turn to their guns as the very first line of defense because they saw the last guy ... Bang.

The new word is "some".  Some more access to mental health, some more limits on guns, some more of anything, some more something. 

George Cook, Fort Myers

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