The Sound Guy

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I'm not trying to point fingers, I'm just saying the BOE seems to get a pass in all these discussions. The only reason they didn't raise the millage any more during the recession is that they have to have voter approval to get any higher than 19... like that's was gonna happen during the crash. They lost millions in tax dollars as the values plummeted, but they made the budget work. They have it all back and more now, but keep spending it trying to keep up with Cobb. You also didn't mention Jerry's quick slight of hand on the Fire Tax which ended up being a 3 mil general fund tax inc

I can't figure out why everyone gets up in arms about the BOC raising taxes when the School board is the majority of the bill and they just sit there raising their income by millions every year the tax base increases. Year County School 2015 6.528 18.879 2016 6.188 18.879 2017 6.500 18.879 The county is just changing the rate back to where is was 2015. The school board has been digging in out pockets at the same rate for the last five years or so. So why do they get a pass for their tax increases? Of the $$ tax increase I'll see this year, about 75% of

Lessons learned - Own a business, have a strong will.

I just don't want our property taxes to go up 3 or 4 mils to be paying for these improvements for a business model that is totally unproven. If this was really a guaranteed money maker, Propeller would do whatever it took to set up business. As it is, we take all the risk (just like the movie studio) and if it fails, we pay the bills (just like the movie studio) The GA airport has never had a chance on it's own. They opened it, we got a few planes, then the tornado came in and took it back down to the ground. Then the recession hit and growth in the area shut down. McCollum

If he had a gun out, it becomes a threat to her life and she is then legally able to use any force required to remove that threat. She was not in the car at the time he broke in. If you want to pull the line of using possible deadly force back so far, where do you draw it? Ok to shoot people running away from your house (not sure, but they might have done something) OK to shoot trespassers (dang, how was I to know he was a tax appraiser?) OK to run over a kid playing in the street because he's not supposed to be there? OK to run over someone that shoots you a bird from the sidewal

You are not allowed to use deadly force in defense of property, be it with a firearm or anything else. Period. To use deadly force, there must be a threat to yourself or another person. (and a valid threat at that) Otherwise, you'd have kids being killed over picking apples off a guy's tree and all kinds of stuff like that. You might as well give the police the right to shoot anyone who runs away from an arrest. (We've seen the issues that arise from that!) My son (who has his firearm permit)just a month ago had to watch the guy that had just broken out his $250 car window to steal

I am not so much anti-commercialization as I am anti county subsidizing of the company that stands to gain everything if successful, but can declare bankruptcy and leave us the taxpayers on the hook for millions of dollars of improvements if the airline they deal with says "Well, dang. Didn't get enough paying customers... We out of here". If they think it's that great a deal, pay something towards the improvements up front. I want Propeller to have some skin in the game.

Mine came back from college very close to a vegan (couldn't give up General's Chicken) but has now gone over to the dark side completely. At 17, I would think she's still growing, but as long as she's eating beans and other high protein veggies, I would think she should be fine.

Holy Carp Batman!! Maybe we shouldn't complain quite as much about the taxes around here: Wow. $300K house around here would be $4500 or so. Even the West Hartford rate is crazy high. No wonder they Yankees are moving south...

DBR was a pretty good job, first good job I've seen done here that wasn't state funded...

After dropping nearly $70,000 last year (from an outrageously silly number) it went back up some $20,000 to a reasonable number given the market. We've had brokers cold calling us asking if we'd like to sell as they clients looking for homes like ours. (Ranch over basement w/ 2 acre lot)

Pubby - Thanks for the time stamps on each of the stories. It allowed it me to jump directly to the water system story I was interested in.

As hard as the Peoples Republic of California is on business, it's not surprising that companies would rather work elsewhere. I'm glad to see Georgia getting it's share of the cash generated by our people going to the movies. It was really cool to see areas in Cartersville that I recognized in Guardians Issue 2.

Agreed that there are many instances that use of force was not justified, just the example you used was not one of them.

Yes, he broke the law and most people's moral code. However at the time of the murders, he was not under police orders. When facing the police, he followed their instructions exactly and and was taken in without violence. (Don't get me started on these thugs who will attack unarmed innocents, but then wimp out when facing armed police, that's another rant) You could say the same for the young photographer that was mistaken for Roof right after the killings. When suddenly surrounded by police with guns drawn with no clue what was going on, not knowing that they considered him a dangero

Poor guy can't catch a break. (No pun intended) Prayers for you Thad, get well soon.

We could use a new dragstrip....just sayin'....

Somebody wanting Cinco de Mayo off. Uggg. Would love for someone to find them and put them away for terrorist threats. "Adult" or not, 16 YO is old enough to know better.

I definitely feel that a blanket ban on school property was wrong. My son was a History Major at KSU, they often had to go out to old abandoned buildings to help hunt for historical items. Because the land had been donated to the school, he could not carry his pistol or even a machete to these sites where Rattlesnakes and other wild beasts were common. I haven't read the details of the law, so can't say if this law balances safety on campus with safety off campus, so won't comment further.

Oh good, I guess they will rip out that gasoline fueling station they spent our tax money installing just a few years ago next to Shelton Elem and replace with a giant fuel air bomb next to the school. That's a great idea.

Yea, I can't figure out how they didn't think that people would abuse this.

None of this makes any sense. Even if he was splashing water everywhere and you cut it off, they should be doing welfare checks at least every day and that should catch that he's dehydrating. Multiple somebodies had to drop the ball for this to happen and surely they could have figured it out in a year. Reading some other articles, it's reported that they had this happen before: Whoever cut it off and didn't make sure that it got turned back on or that he got drinking water needs to be held accountable.

He's making a left turn!!!! He's making another left turn!!! He's making another left turn!!! ......

Won't do them any good. Our robin's nest is (was) on the downspout at the end of the porch, she was there on Sat, yesterday morning I noticed she was gone and an egg sitting on the downspout. Saw the crows in the yard and chased them off. An hour later, the egg is gone. Mama hasn't been back. They get near my tomatoes and I can get the gun or crossbow on them, then they will be be gone.