To the editor

I live in Florida, As I write this we await news about the pathway Hurricane Milton will travel, and whose lives and homes are most threatened. My updates come every six hours from the NHC, the National Hurricane Center, which provides weather and climate forecasts and warnings.

As I get all the current details of this storm on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NHC (National Hurricane Center) site, Project 2025 is outlining how to cripple it. Project 2025 was designed for candidate Trump and his transition team and calls for a broad dismantling of government agencies should he win.

Project 2025 takes four pages to describe how NOAA, the National Weather Service and its NHC “should be broken up and downsized.” But we need these protective services across the country.

The League of Conservative voters has said that Project 2025, which describes NOAA as “Primary component of climate change alarm industry, would dismantle the National Weather Service and NOAA” Those actions would undermine the agency’s independence from the executive branch and eliminate internal departments. Hence life-saving information about hurricanes, heat waves and extreme weather events would be reduced

Project 2025 says the agency “should focus on data gathering services and should commercialize its forecasting.” This is a considerable limit on work and services they provide. The intent seems to be to render the agencies ineffective.

I do not support this proposal.

Vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Vote by mail.

Kathleen Callard, RNBS

North Fort Myers