Opinions
Recent action by the county
commission to raise property taxes to
sustain county parks without a vote of
the people is narrowly permissible under
a 1913 statute (amended last in ‘82), but
is it prudent given the current state of
affairs?
The resolution the board passed cites
the “mental...
To the editor:
I think the time has come that all politicians, on every level, should
have to go back to government class. The one we had to take to
graduate.
I recall when you were elected by “we the people,” you swore to
serve the people. I was taught it was a system to make it better for...
To the editor:
I was glad to see in the newspaper the new County Parks Barn by
the Covered Bridge is finished so the public can rent it for their
private use, after hearing the figure of how much it will cost to rent
it, $2,900 for residents or $5,800 for non-residents. If the county has...
To the editor:
I subscribe to the Three Rivers Commercial-News to stay in touch
with what goes on in our community. I have questions for the
current editor of our local paper. Was the lack of any mention of our
local elections a reflection of your voter apathy? Do you think it’s
proper for our...
Dear Editor:
While the opposition research presented in the letter-to-the-editor titled “County Commissioner Comments on Parks Millage” advances several half-truths, there is one statement that is rather glaring. The notion that I blocked an economic development opportunity regarding an abandoned...
To the editor:
I was glad to see in the newspaper the new County Parks Barn by the Covered Bridge is finished so the public can rent it for their private use, after hearing the figure of how much it will cost to rent it, $2,900 for residents or $5,800 for non-residents. If the county has enough...
To the editor:
I’m always amazed when the peasant class, aka the poor and the newly poor, aka the middle class, are willing to take a few pennies and allow the rich to walk away with millions!
When did we learn to value ourselves and our contributions so little? We only have one life to work!...
To the editor:
The gathering of nearly 200 for the Oct. 23 Right to Life Annual Banquet at Sturges-Young Auditorium gets A++ for their singing of our National Anthem. If it didn’t raise the roof, it had to have shook the rafters.
Supporters of life from conception to natural end sat on the edge...
To the editor:
With all this kneeling for our National Anthem, last night at my grandson’s soccer game in Vicksburg our game had already begun when we hear from the football field the National Anthem being played. Just to let you know no flag was in sight, we couldn’t even see the football field...
To the editor:
I think I can honestly say I have never been afraid. Well, maybe for a few seconds after I moved from the South and realized that I had no experience on icy roads. I was always confident that things would always work out in the end, and they did.
But lately I have been...