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I'm curious to know if protecting local community schools has anything to do with party politics or if it is a much broader issue. A lot of people are expressing surprise and disappointment in the Booth's role in these consolidations - especially concerning the closing of the community school in Aurora.

The truth is, every Democrat on both boards refused to stand up for Aurora. It's also true that the Republicans on these boards had the numbers to stop the closing and they did not. On the County Commission three Republicans stood up for Aurora and two did not. On the School Board two Republicans stood up for Aurora and six did not. (That would be three Repubs for and five against depending on how you count the Williams show vote at the end.)

For now, it seems the Democrats have decided on the community school issue; they are against community schools. The Republicans have not decided. They are divided. Although it appears the vast majority of the school board Republicans are strong advocates of school consolidations.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 7:11 pm By: Van Zant

When will Impeachment be the remedy for these smug and self-important to the threshold of ignorant Democratic Socialists federal judges?

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 6:10 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Agreed Mr. President: It is high time to start putting bad people and traitors back in jail.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 5:09 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Everyone seems to have moved on to the Snowden School issue, but I'm still stuck at the 9 1/2 ac lot debacle that the schools system thought it owned.There seems to be a lack of competence galore. Not only the 4 jerks on the Commissioners Board, who could easily be nicknamed the 4 clones of Sgt Shultz, but also the School Board members who seemed to have played Zero role in the transaction. Thus we could nickname them Sgt Shultz's too. Then there is the City Council members who seem to be another body of Sgt Shultz's.

Who were the players? As far as I can tell, Cheeseman put his head together with the City Manager and agreed on a $500,000 price tag for HALF the 9 acs they thought they owned.

Out of these three bodies, no one said, Hey maybe we need a Title Search, and NO ONE said, Maybe we should negotiate this price on
behalf of the taxpayers?
Why didnt they? It stinks galore! It feels like a lot of money laundering between Governmental bodies at the detriment of the taxpayer.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 3:17 pm By: Befuddled

To all wild-eyed Democratic Socialists, and their Non Patriot Leftist enablers, you better acclimated to such for next number of decades, maybe longer.

Oh, and one more thing ... No more cheating in elections to "democratically" pick our representatives!

The vast majority of the elected Democratic Socialist politicians are either half crazed or mostly stupid; however, the Good People of this Representative Republic will hold their collective noses and tolerate these fools, but, if you Leftists keep trying to cheat, as was your ploy to invite an invasion of Illegals so you could ply them with public funding and vote them in Swing States, it will be an intolerable "bridge too far."

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 12:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thank-you for these good words, my dearest friend, Diane Rufino.

May your good spirit watch over us all; the Good People of the Republic you did so dearly love.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

It is high time that all of the justices smarten up, and that includes a few of the so-called "conservative justices."

These are uncertain times in our Republic, as so many of public are totally ignorant of what constitutes truth, or inspired consistently by evil. Either way, we, who now real truth, must stand fixed and solid.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:20 am By: Stan Deatherage

Asylum has always been a racket all over the western world. Many of these illegal aliens who claim to be afraid of their home countries, go there on vacation, spending the welfare money they get from western countries. False asylum claims are a criminal enterprise. These despicable jackass judges are a disgrace.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 3:35 pm By: borderhawk

This law will also help reduce housing costs for American citizens. As usual, the lefties run to the radical judges to try to screw things up.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 2:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Presidents Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln simply ignored pushy federal judges who tried to abuse power. Maybe Trump should do that, too, and cite them as precedents. Lincoln even once issued an order for the arrest of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, although the Chief Justice backed down on what Lincoln thought he was about to do, and Lincoln recalled the order. That is how you deal with the tyranny of the judiciary. Unelected, unaccountable political appointees like federal judges should not have the power they try to assert over the elected branches of government. Tha tis highly undemocratic.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 12:42 pm By: Conservative Voter

The Marist poll is notorious for tilting to the left, so this result in their poll is particularly encouraging.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 10:06 am By: Steven P. Rader