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Getting back to “Normal”

While a lot of us are starting to relax just a bit with the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris, it is disconcerting nevertheless to still hear Mr. Trump insist that he won the 2020 presidential election. It is even more disturbing to hear about the number of people that believe him, are afraid to contradict him or are ready to overthrow our democracy in order to bring him back to power. The truth is still the truth. The American people elected President Biden and Vice-President Harris. The insurrection on January 6 to stop the peaceful transfer of power was ...

Speeding, distracted drivers are health, safety crisis

All Marietta residents and visitors owe a huge debt of gratitude to Council Representative Geoff Schenkel, Harmar advocates Jackson Patterson, AJ Smith and those they are working with to focus attention on the danger to pedestrians, bicyclists, children and the elderly on Franklin Street. Unfortunately, the unsafe conditions on Franklin exist throughout Marietta. Anyone who walks or bicycles is keenly aware of the hazards. Distracted drivers texting, talking and otherwise paying little attention to operating their motor vehicles threaten pedestrians daily. 20 were ticket for ...

Gee, What happened?

Gee! What happened to my Right to cast a legal vote? Not one negated by some illegal alien, or felon, or criminal fraud using some dead or long gone addressee? And the machine fraud criminals, and the unsecured, unverified mailed ballots “ harvested” or cast by persons who never had to show a photo ID? And the insanity of States being forbidden to purge voter rolls of inactive registered unknowns? Gee, what happened to my Natural Right to self defense? How about my right to buy and own my own house, or farm, or business, free and unmolested by extreme regulations and taxes to pay ...

How great is $15.00 minimum wage?

Yes, it is commendable and much appreciated by senior citizens and those with challenges that our elected officials proclaim: “We need to take care of those most vulnerable in our community first in getting vaccinated against COVID-19.” These acts by our elected officials are laudable. At the same time the above mentioned categories of “most vulnerable” are put into grater disadvantage by $15.00 minimum wage, for first time workers there will be unable to find employment, as well as get subjected to having to pay higher prices for goods and services. Same is true for senior ...

It is time to wake up

Recently I watched an interview with liberal author Naomi Wolf. Our political beliefs are far apart, but she is right on the money about what is going on in this country and where we stand as a nation. She states that we have been so divided, we are missing the rise of the totalitarian police state using a pandemic to achieve the goal. She went on to blame government as well as large corporate interests. We have witnessed a complete abandonment of Constitutional principals and rights. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about suspending the rights of people in order to be ...

Tilting at windmills

Did you know that Texas generates 70% of its energy from fossil fuels? If you’re like me, I’m guessing you didn’t. I’m also guessing that in the wake of a severe arctic storm blasting the United States, you’ve probably heard something to the effect that “frozen wind turbines caused millions of people to lose power during freezing temperatures across the Lone Star state.” What you probably didn’t hear from these same folks is that wind energy makes up a mere 24% of Texas energy production, and that at least 80% of outages across the state were due to the failures of ...