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Big Bob: Your comment - "Boomers love paper!" - signifies one of the 10 reasons why we need it.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 1:33 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Common core is likely the smallest contributor to the problem. Clearly good instruction offers a variety of teaching tactics and approaches. Example - I'm not a phonics guy, but for some kids, it works. There is no one size fits all.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 1:28 pm By: Big Bob

Would you prefer the KGB or East German Stasi? Same breed of cat as today's FBI.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 11:47 am By: John Steed

Big Bob: One can start by taking away the TikTok in a very permanent manner.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 10:49 am By: Stan Deatherage

Considering what the "Gestapo" and what they did, I think this is a bad analogy.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 10:37 am By: Big Bob

McCarthy has been a surrender monkey who badly sold us down the river on the bad deal with the Democrats on the debt ceiling extention, especially allowing those 87,000 IRS stormtroopers to stay in the budget. He should have been kicked out then. However, the timing of doing it at this juncture is terrible. McCarthy fooled too many Republicans by saying the right things while he failed to take the corresponding actions.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 8:52 am By: Rino Hunter

Over half a million dollars in corruption right here in Washington and Brooks and Sadler are in the middle of it. Something definitely needs to be done. Brooks needs to give the money he got in this scam back to the taxpayers.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 8:37 am By: Bubba

We are screwed.

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 11:43 pm By: Gary Ceres

This appears to be a conflict in the state statute. I just read the entire State Statute and it kind of contradicts itself in several areas and this is because the law was written a long time ago before all electronic and Internet devices had been created and is very vague in whether a hard copy is actually required. The language itself says filing system. I am a strong advocate of keeping hard copies since there are many reasons for doing so such as hacking, possible emps or electric failures, software issues, and the fact that we are a state where the first one to file has standing in court and it is more easily manipulated through electronic means then paper means. That stated if you read the actual statute it is up to the county to give direction to the register of deeds as to how to file the system properly according to their desires and to provide the funding and space to do so. The most logical conclusion is that the state needs to update the statute to be more specific as to whether we are referring to hard copies or simply a required filing system. If anyone would like to read the full statute here it is I'm not going to post the whole thing but you can look it up online and read it it's quite extensive with many different sections. Some sections seem to infer paper documentation While others make vague references to filing systems which courts have ruled can be electronic. Our laws should not be so vague. I think perhaps a meeting of the minds between the register of deeds and the County Commissioners could have some clarity and avoid any personalities being in conflict since the statute itself does seem to be rather vague and the problem seems to be with the state statute rather than with a particular office or local officials. The county should however make it a priority to have hard copies made and provide the space to store them since there are many reasons for doing so five of which I discussed with commissioner Deathrage today that make a lot of sense.

Relevant statute: §§ 161-12 through 161-13: Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1027.

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 9:07 pm By: Gary Ceres

There was recently a statement by over 1,600 scientists, including 2 Nobel Prize winners that there was no "climate energency" It is all a false alarm that puts money and power in the hands of certain people and certain countries, and they have a vested interest in keeping the scare tactics rolling. They are CHicken Little on steroids.

Who is pushing this climate scare big time? Three entites, 1) the globalists, 2) Red China, 3) Russia. All are funding the groups that propaganize the scare in this country, although lately Russia may have been more involved with other things and laid low on the funding. Wonder which one is paying Troll Bob?

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 5:15 pm By: Rino Hunter

Yeah, Texas gets it. AFter a major blackout when wind and solar failed to produce during a blizzard, and multiple times they have had to scramble to buy power on the open market in summer and winter when wind and solar was not producing, Texas took action. They spent $10 billion to build more gas plants to provide reliable and cheap electricity and imposed punitive fees and penalties to discourage more unreliable wind and solar.

Only globalist demagogues think the world is "cooking". Temperatures were higher during the 300 years of the Medieval Warm Period, which produced positive, not negative impacts. It was MUCH warmer during the 3,000 years of the Holocene Maximum, which was the golden age of ancient Greece, again without any ill effects.

As the former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Dr. Vaclav Klaus has said, climate alarmism is "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today>"

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 4:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

#3 Pick one fact from above and write it here: THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. HOW DO YOU EXPECT KIDS TO LEARN MATH LIKE THIS? Fact..

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 2:17 pm By: Tandy Oliver Dunn