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So really, only the clerical workers will be let go from the BOE. I bet that sucks to be a bigwig at the board offices and then be reduced to being a lowly school worker again. I wonder if they will be given admin jobs (and current admins be put back in classrooms) or it they will be offered actual classroom positions? I would like to know more about this...

I know a school nurse. They do make very little money, especially compared to their counterparts who work in hospitals or medical offices. Many take the school nursing gig to keep the same hours as their children. I think it is dangerous not to have nurses in the buildings. I don't want to be responsible for medical treatments or judgments. Office workers shouldn't have to be responsible for handing out medications to children (more than you think take medicine at school daily).

Will they keep their current salaries or have to reduce to the 190 day scale?

I just read about it on the AJC website. So sorry. This might be it: http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/cobb-woman-killed-in-498883.html

The people who passed by live there. It is their backyard. It is their community. He was their neighbor (homeless or not) who tried to help someone.

They usually don't sleep that close to the street and sprawled out like that.

I can think of a million reasons not to help people, not to interfere, to mind my own business. I just wouldn't be able to live with myself. I find it amusing when people post every last sordid detail of their personal lives online then have the nerve to tell someone to mind their own business.

One man even emerged from a building to photograph Mr Tale-Yax, a 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, with his mobile phone.

The big blood spot.

I guess he should have minded his own business. Nah, most of the harsh folks are in their 30's and 40's. I don't think Pac Man, Super Mario, or Centipede does that to people.

Today has been a bad news kind of day, but I still haven't lost my humanity (or sarcastic bent). By the time our economy is done crashing, that may be all I have left. Besides, opinions are free. I am old enough to not really give a crap if anyone agrees with me or if I stand alone. I may change my name to Lone Wolf.

Video of man dying on the sidewalk. It is his business if he wants to die there. We should be more like these people in New York who really know how to mind their own business and not interfere. Don't watch if you are sensitive. http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23258834/index.html

Aww, thanks. I'm not usually sensitive. Worry does strange things to people... Have a good night, ladies.

Some things are sacred. I'll get my panties out of a wad when this third deployment is over and done with. I understood the "joke", just didn't think it was funny. At all. I've had the misfortune of hearing Taps played live a few times. Everybody else can laugh and pooh pooh me, but I think it sucked. Especially the footage chosen.

Why is this funny? I guess military families don't take this as lightly as other folks. Maybe now do a bagpipe video so all the families of LEOs can laugh.

Rockmart has a Walmart now and I'm sure Polk can use the money. They also have Mexican food. What else do you really need? I'm not going to key myself up for a big SPLOST "VOTE NO" campaign. Too many people just vote how their neighbor or pastor tells them to vote. They will vote in the affirmative because one of the projects (smart about how they spread them out throughout the county) is near their home and they will think short term instead of long term. What is $90 million of your share is only one small penny per dollar? I don't think many realize this is a 6 year SPLOST.

Babies are projectiles when they aren't strapped into a seat properly. Glad that woman was trusted with the new life. No good excuse, I know for a fact the hospital checks to make sure you have a carseat before they let you take a baby home.

Exactly. Who is going to pay the attorney fees when someone puts their dang eye out using the archery range or sporting clays or when some kid breaks a leg at the skate park? Let's save a little money and just buy some sharp sticks to set up in the park and maybe a baseball bat tied to a tree to break bones. Why stop at shooting guns and arrows? Let's get a missile range. Spending our extorted money so frivolously, and without a hint of shame, is insulting. I love animals, and I have a dog, but I wasn't planning on buying him a park. He has a bowl and a bed and a crate and a leash

SPLOST has only been around for 15 years, it didn't pay for ALL of that. This SPLOST vote will renew it for another 6 years. The same group asking for SPLOST brought the 100,000 people here. It is a cause/effect thing. I liked Paulding just fine 15 years ago. It wasn't such a pain to drive to surrounding areas to shop or do things because the roads weren't jammed. The crime rate was lower. The schools were safer. There was only one apartment complex (maybe two). It wasn't a bad place to live. Now there are areas of this county where I won't go. I may never try to go see a movie here ev

Public Safety is 13.5% of the SPLOST budget, Recreation is 31.5%, Roads are 45%. I would have less of a problem with SPLOST if they switched the recreation portion with the public safety. Why is an archery range more important than a fire station or police equipment? They have already put in a bunch of traffic lights and turning lanes with the last SPLOST allotments. The situation in this country, and this county, has changed. SPLOST should change, as well. If parks and recreation centers need something, raise money for it from the people who will utilize it. Ask for it, don't just take i

That is the saddest, and truest, statement made so far. We feel forced, at least I do, in this situation. We aren't represented, we don't have a say, we don't have a voice. We aren't voting for the things we want anymore, we are voting like we "have to" or because the choices are so jacked up there is no "right" way to vote. There is nothing as degrading in a supposed free society than to step up to a voting machine and vote for something you hate. Pretty sad commentary.

We DO NOT have control over this. They have threatened to increase millage if we don't approve it. Where is the choice? We have to have clothing and food and other items we buy to survive. The choice we have is to shop in another county. Did we get to pick which projects were funded? Was it your idea for the archery range? I love how people really think we have a choice. I don't see it that way at all. I see us being the cash cows. They need our money, that's about it.

I don't know if I would be adamantly against it if they trimmed the fat from it. Take out the luxury items like the parks and amenities. If it comes right down to it, I would vote for renewing SPLOST if they really were going to raise the millage because that screws homeowners only and doesn't spread the cost as evenly. I just hate they would threaten to do that instead of listening to the citizens they represent.

I read that thread. You were not the only one people took offense to, you are just the only one with a conscience. None of us are perfect. Like you, if I say something I shouldn't have it usually doesn't hit me until later. I respect you for making a very public apology.

Here is the complete list of road construction: http://www.paulding.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=418 Most of us understand it is for improvements to the county. If you look at the document, most of the improvements were to roadways that served the county well until we overbuilt. We will be paying for the building boom for years to come. I won't even get started on that issue because we screwed the pooch on that one. The issue is the extremely bad economy right now. We don't "need" all of the proposed projects. We don't. It would be nice to have a lot of things, but we don't truly "need" t