Report Inappropriate Comments

The airport already holds an enormous amount of land with logical extension toward the east, where hundreds of acres exist for future expansion of the terminal. Their efforts to hold land west of Tamiami Trail is illogical and should be opposed.

Expansion up to the highway could only detract from what is considered the "cultural highlight" of the area with the museum and its gracious entrance. Parking lots and rental properties are the major sources of revenue for the airport, they are busy tearing down commercial structures along Tamiami Trail for — what else but parking!

The destruction of the internationally-known honors college for a jock shop to please the governor is tangential to this story. If there will be no difference, what remains of New College makes no sense abutting another state institution of greater stature offering the same type of education. All the honor students will be gone in three years, the average grade point ratio is plummetting at admissions. The former New College is being turned into a conservative religious institution in a public university system that is being targeted for destruction just as the lower schools in the state system. We are letting a small number of folks destroy the national commitment to separation of church and state, without understanding what will happen when others seek to use the funding for their benefit (beware the next step up in authoritarianism is likely to be funded from the Middle East), a trustee has said that there are too many women on the campus... sounds as if we a more than half way there already.