DOGE Report should address what impacts community
Another “Weekly DOGE Report” in The Port St. Joe Star and Apalachicola Times, a community paper?
The topics included in these reports seem “cherry picked,” selectively chosen to promote divisiveness against certain groups of people. It totally ignores other DOGE cuts which directly impact people of this community
Why doesn’t the “Weekly DOGE Report” detail cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, veterans, education, cancer and medical research, subsidies to US farmers, the Postal Service, teens and adults with disabilities, SNAP benefits, WIC, the Environmental Protection Agency, HUD and affordable housing? These are issues that directly affect the people in our community.
The unverified information on DOGE.gov is provided by the billionaire unelected owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. DOGE.gov is not a permanent government agency and has been set up within the Executive Office of the President with zero oversight. That means DOGE.gov can say whatever they want without independent verification.
Can the government spending be reduced and streamlined? Absolutely. It takes careful planning, not an under-researched unelected chainsaw.
This publication owes its readers fair and unbiased information. If it chooses to print a “Weekly DOGE Report,” it should address the issues that directly impact the citizens of this community.
Our community paper should be news that is relevant to us. The “Weekly DOGE Report” should include the cuts to NOAA and FEMA when hurricanes directly impact Gulf and Franklin counties. It should report the dismantling of The Department of Education and the loss of after-school programs, support for students with disabilities, and healthcare and meals for our children.
Instead, the “Weekly DOGE Report” is reporting selective, divisive, and irrelevant content like using a “mouse model to investigate the effects of cross-sex testosterone treatment.”
This paper should report news that is relevant to our community. If this paper must include DOGE news, I ask that it includes topics that affect the people that live here. Reporting one-sided misleading “facts” will only promote divisiveness within our community.
If The Port St. Joe Star and Apalachicola Times continue to publish a selective “Weekly DOGE Report” that omit issues that affect our community, I can only ask why? What are you trying to accomplish for our community? What is the goal?
Nancy Miller
Port St. Joe
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.