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Today s letters: Readers comment on Charlie Crist switching parties, city trash policies and cigarette butts on roadways
The Gainesville Sun
Good reasons to leave GOP
I was enjoying Bill Cotterrell’s take on Charlie Crist being a likely opponent for Ron DeSantis, until he got to the “flip flop” phrase regarding Crist’s change in political parties.
As a former Republican, Crist had many good reasons for choosing to leave. When his supposed Republican colleagues basically crucified him for giving Barack Obama a hug when the president visited Florida, that was one.
When the Republicans got busy destroying Florida’s natural environment to serve the wishes of corporations and developers, that was another reason for Crist, a native Floridian who has a fondness for our flora and fauna.
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Gainesville artists gaze toward the Other Side
Bill Dean
It’s been a year now since the COVID-19 shutdown began an extremely bleak period for Gainesville musicians, who along with the rest of the country suddenly found themselves facing new realities unique to their own livelihoods and prospects, or lack thereof.
Despite the mass cancellations of gigs and a general unplugging of all live performances at the time, some musicians explored other ways of coping, including playing livestream shows from their homes or inside venues bereft of live audiences.
Still others performed in music videos – including two in Gainesville, “On the Other Side” and “The New Normal” – that addressed the pandemic head-on and brought together groups of musicians near and afar who could have only imagined playing together without them.
The Gainesville Sun
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Veterans for Peace 34th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration: at 8 p.m. Saturday virtually, performers in person and also via a recorded webinar platform. Tickets can be purchased at Veterans for Peace website: http://www.vfpgainesville.org/ or at https://bit.ly/33OZ21v/Performances include Cherokee Peace Chant, John Chambers, Lauren Robinson, Bob McPeek, Faye Baird, Bill Hutchinson & Jennifer Johnson, David Beede, Nancy Luca, Cathy DeWitt & Janet Rucker, Mark Billman, Ron Thomas, and Other Voices, along with readings by our Peace Poetry Contest winners. Peace Helmet winners will be announced.