Sick kids purged

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Sick kids purged

I am simply gobsmacked that Gov. Rick Scott personally presses the Florida Legislature for $1 billion for corporate tax subsidies while the state purges 9,000 sick and disabled youth from the rolls of Florida’s Children Medical Services as detailed in the Dec. 6 article State strips frail kids of coverage.

Clearly, these disabled, frail, and sick kids couldn’t make the expected campaign contributions and lacked the well-heeled lobbyists that corporate America has in getting the governor’s attention and concern. An utter disgrace.

John Ise, Miami Shores

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Vote for civility and ethics for better local governments

By Jim Cason, former mayor, Coral Gables, Merrett R. Stierheim, former Miami-Dade County manager

February 20, 2019 01:36 PM

There are many important municipal elections scheduled this year throughout Miami-Dade County. The impact of those elections on local residents spans across many issues, like personal safety and security, taxation, and neighborhood recareation programs.

Because these issues often affect the quality of residential life and the delivery of municipal public services, residents should take more than passing interest in who their candidates are and what they stand for. It is most important for all of us to become informed and vote.