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All I'd have to do with you and a bunch of others here stradial is substitute "USA" with "county board of commissioners" and we'd either agree that things are complex and sometimes the things we do have unintended consequences or things are not complex and you are always right except when you are wrong. How do you know when? Ask your wife; she knows. pubby

Obviously not or they'd realize there is an opening for a referendum that would limit activity at the airport even if it went 'commercial' ... i.e. if they'd follow the suggestion that any expansion of the current runway to over 6500 feet or the construction of an additional runway would require a public vote on a public bond issue ... and have that measure written into the state law regarding the Airport Authority. The current 139a permit could continue through, the largest commercial plane that could operate from the field would have roughly 100 passengers (the smallest 737 would be the l

And people wondered how the German people - the good Christian German people - became engaged in genocide. I mean I don't think you, low, would want to work in a death factory like Dachau lighting up the ovens or gassing the naked people but there are those who would. Let me suggest that this is a tough situation that need a lot more finesse than mass murder whether through death camps or nuking the bastards. While the administration person suggested jobs and the like may be a part of the long term goal, I think probably arranging for some kind of education system outside of the

perhaps ground troops are the worst thing we can do. Boots on the ground are absolutely the worst thing we could do for many reasons including the logic they want us to send them. We need to out think them. pubby

Unfortunately, I can see you're the type that would not only bet your life, but my and my grand child's life on that mistaken notion. And why? so you can continue to burn premium gas in your 4x4 with 460 cu in. gas guzzler. What a lousy bet. pubby

I appreciate that you don't recognize the inter-connectedness of the economy. Obviously you missed the failure of Citizens Bank of Dallas back in the 1980s (Now part of the college ... you know the building catty corner to the old courthouse.) A lot of people lost a lot of money on that one and sources of local capital were limited for a good four years as a result. We lost a couple of banks in this latest recession in large part because of their support of the local homebuilding industry. Those losses slowed our recovery. That we have any local banks left is a wonder but I susp

Niagara falls typically freezes over on the American side virtually every year. reports: so much for your assertion on global climate change being a hoax. pubby

It is spring and love is the air. I'll reserve judgment on the dueling bathtubs other than to say clean sex would seem more inviting. pubby

Like I said the original plan, made in 2005-06 projected lots of customers. By late 2008 ... about the time the landing strip was completed ... the economy crashed and all the businesses throughout the world cancelled literally thousands of plans for expansion ... and not just here. Because the proximate cause of the crash in 2008 was the housing bubble burst and Paulding's economy was overly dependent on housing and associated development, the world, one could say, changed ... almost overnight. It is more a case that it was built for a growing economy with a housing industry still in

Not everything regarding the airport has been published. That is a fact. For instance, there was a real hot prospect that predated the Nov 2012 lease for the property that Propeller was in a great position to make our case. Indeed, the chances were good that we could have gotten the business which would have been a move of a company that outfits jet aircraft interiors. We were totally out of the running for the project but signing with Propeller got us back in as the first in line for the move. Unfortunately, the folks at the current location were now more negotiable and went the

Those amorphous, unsubstantiated charges are just that, amorphous and unsubstantiated. Further, with the 70 million figure you cite, that would amount to more than $10 million a year in extra spending from the county's budget that has dropped from $70 million to $50 million a year since 2009. It obviously hasn't come from county funds like you seem to suggests ... oh and if that kind of activity were going on, I'm sure the county couldn't borrow money on its fine credit rating with Standard and Poors. (And Whitey, if our credit rating were so bad, I'm sure we'd not rate the free legal ser

Tundra: Every projection in the future is by definition a guess based on best information ... but still a guess. I mean a doggone asteroid could plop down at 78 and 92 and make firm wedding plans for the next day 'a lie.' But you're right on one point, Tundra, this is not about airplanes, airlines, or any of that stuff. It is about doing everything that can be done to bring business here because if we don't, we're going to be an unsustainable community because the very fact of living here will require too-high a cost because of the inefficiency inherent in having the longest 'commut

The plot thickens: This from the Jackson MS Clarion-Ledger This does help explain why there were initial reports of the walmart being closed down (a standoff) and why news was so slow after that initial report. Apparently the standoff lasted a long time. pubby

Maybe he's not as proud as I thought Oh, and the following 'recognition' graph in the wiki, I think, is pretty good for a junior college. Oh, and dogs ... remember your degree from the school of journalism was not specifically a journalism degree ... it was a PR degree ... you know in PRopaganda. You are good at it though pubby

I appreciate your attitude and feel much like you on this issue. I would, however, point out that part of what is driving this is the perception of the sound pollution that comes from these planes. This typically is because there was a time in the not too distant past, the objections were real and palpable. Let me show you two graphs. The first is our 'real perception' of the sound generated by jet aircraft. This is what we remember and object to as a rule. Do know that military aircraft, because performance/speed, is the priority, are even louder as a rule than these second gene

I'm sure they did, considering that lynching was not for being white but for rustling cattle or stealing horses. And I lived in Fort Smith Arkansas and worked in a historical building across the street from the home of the prosecutor in the Hanging Judge (Issac C. Parker) court. Notably the 'crimes' that blacks were hung for were infractions like being uppity, not stepping into the mud and off the sidewalk to let a white boy pass, drinking from the wrong water fountain or casting an 'eye' at the revealed ankle of a white woman. So pardon if I don't perceive some kind of false equivalency i

The case remains open on a particularly brutal lynching in 1946 as testimony has surfaced that alleges that some of those responsible for the 1946 mass lynching near Monroe Georgia, a Walton County city about 75 miles east of Dallas according to an article in the Guardian. The crime was not solved at the time presumably because a conspiracy of silence surrounded the event which was suspected to be organized by the KKK. No one has ever been brought to justice for the multiple murders alleged attended by over 50 people. The murder gained national attention and outrage as one of the victims

The interesting part was that given the sketchy reports, one might expect treatment similar to that of the shooting in Europe where one was killed by the kid spraying fire from his assault rifle. International news whereas this was simmering with notice that the walmart there had been closed. It just seemed awfully hushed up ... almost protective of wally world (don't want no one being skeered to go to wally world ... although I a few around here have expressed their concerns about visiting the one in Hiram.) As far as the police vultures ... as you call them ... I'll quote the ying in

This was first reported as a shooting at a walmart 19 hours earlier and this is one of the later reports. There seems to be little news regarding it. Doesn't that seem strange?

A forum represents a social network. The larger and more vibrant it is, the more relevant it is to more people. Paulding.com was started on the notion that if the Internet reaches 80-90 percent of the homes in the county, a forum uniting those folks would be a great tool for local businesses to reach folks. Literally the more the merrier and by being the host of that, I (unlike some others) would provide good value for advertisers by allowing them status and enhanced abilities to advertise their goods and services. It actually worked very well for quite a while. Unfortunately, th

No, in this case I'm an observer. What I'm seeing is those folks at the courthouse being stabbed in the back by people who want to retain their anonymity. I mean, we at least know that the players on the county's side are the county, the AA, the IBA and Propeller. All we know about the other side is that there are some locals, some of whom have been against about everything over the last 20 years, some of whom appear on lawsuits but none of which sought out or paid for the high dollar attorney's who have the pick axes in this case. That is what is so opaque. I think that the GA

Two things. First, I've always been curious as to the terms of the lease but given that our purpose in leasing the property was not to earn a great ton of cash from the airport but rather to get out from under its likely long-term losses and use it to bring jobs ... the terms and our expectations may be the rub. I will say that I don't believe there were any ulterior motives, back-end cash or personal gain from the development of the airport; just a desire to get someone to come here and run something that is or may be a white elephant with the idea that it is such a good deal they will make

Mojo: I think the blame lies with the attorney general who re-wrote the open meetings law in 2012 specifically to all independent boards, BOCs' and similar state-chartered public entities to avoid bringing things like leases of property - other than the actual vote - in public session. You want to change something, lobby to have the open meetings law returned to the previous approach which required public discussion of these kinds of business in open session and made it so that if you didn't discuss them in open session, taxpayers would have standing to void those decisions. But o

Check the fastread page.

A fire on Merchants drive across from Creekside Pines in Dallas disrupted traffic between 11 am into the early afternoon, killed a few trees and demolished an abandoned house. Authorities on the scene believe the house was empty at the time of the fire and have not completed their investigation into the cause. Cecil Bean, who lives near the event, was an eye witness and took a passel of photos of fire. I interviewed him. I did find out that the GA Dept of Natural Resources, fearful the fire may spread on the backside of the property, brought in a backhoe to did a trench to make sure that r