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Safer skies, NASCAR, and cartoon: Letters

Make our skies safer Besides death and taxes, in Florida we can be sure of two other things happening: Children will be injured or killed through parental irresponsibility or volatility, and single-engine planes will fall from the skies, causing havoc and sometimes death. Now, I'll admit there's not a lot we can do about irresponsible or violent parents, but I'm a bit surprised that there is no noise from Tallahassee about these planes raining down upon us. Tighter restrictions and standards on pilot training and airplane maintenance and on pilot licensing and higher requirements on insurance policies are among other measures that could serve to weed out the poorly...