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I find such talk of banning popular products such as electronic cigarettes (vapes) as overblown efforts on par with the presumed threats to 'take everyone's guns.' There may be some regulation needed but the idea of across the board bans are flights of fantasy by folks like Cuomo designed, imo, to hype sales by instilling the fear that products may disappear. While there is no doubt in my mind that regulation will come, this is more a guerilla marketing effort to hype sales.

According to an article in today's AJC, Rep. Tom Graves has announced he will not be running for re-election to Congress from Georgia's 14th Congressional District. There is some speculation that the congressman may choose to run for one of the two US Senate seats that voters will select next November. Rep. Graves is among a large number of GOP congressmen, now in the minority after the GOP lost the 2018 mid-terms, who have chosen to leave the US House of Representatives.

Domestic Dispute Turns Deadly on Perkins Road (Paulding County, GA) On November 26, 2019 at 6:05 PM Paulding E-911 received a welfare check call from Morris Ezekiel Hix (W/M, 72 YOA). Hix advised that he and his longtime girlfriend, Janet Darlene Osmer (W/F, 52 YOA), had been arguing and that during the argument he may have accidently run over her in the driveway of 283 Perkins Road Dallas, GA 30157. When responders arrived on scene, they located Osmer deceased in the driveway of the residence. Once they began looking into the case and speaking with Hix in more

GBI Arrests Paulding County Detective on Child Molestation Charges (Paulding County, GA) On November 25, 2019 the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Region 1 Field Office arrested Detective Steve Edwin Sorrells (W/M, 48 YOA) on child molestation charges. Sorrells was subsequently taken into custody and booked into the Paulding County Jail on the below listed charges: -Child Molestation (F) 2 Counts -Violation of Oath of Office (F) On November 14, 2019 a complainant contacted authorities at the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office with allegations that Sorrells had inapp

Recently Greystone EMC started offering its customer's special EV rates that will drop the cost of a kilowatt hour to about 4 cents for overnight charging. This represents not just a 60 percent drop in cost from about 10 cents a kwh, but in the only cost comparison that changes the MPG understanding from how far you can go on a gallon of gasoline to how far you can go for the cost of a gallon of gasoline (MPG$). I think most people really still haven't thought much about MPG calculations since gasoline remains usually below $3.00/gallon. The current market price for regular gasoline is

Ask a scientist — or anyone, really — about the birth of the universe, and they’ll probably tell you it started with the Big Bang. What nobody knows, though, is what caused that explosion. Some suspect the Big Bang was actually a massive star going supernova, but again, no one knows what exactly causes those stars to ignite, either. That might have just changed, though, thanks to a University of Central Florida research team that says it discovered the conditions necessary for a Big Bang explosion in their lab — without actually intending to. A team led by Kareem Ahmed, an assis

I think I see some diet coke in the stock ... is there any DDP ... Diet Dr. Pepper ... cause I'm probably game for all the DDP you got. As far as the other poster, you paid for the privilege and they're just complaining about pcom which they love to hate. Why they'd travel across Georgia from the distant place at least one of them lives to give a high-five if they could run A&M off pcom. With the new board I've not quite figured how to 'disappear' individual posts (only topics) but if one of the other owners have the tool, I'd recommend using it. Anyway Brad, thanks for the heads

Additional Arrest Made in West Paulding Arson/Murder (Paulding County, GA) On Thursday September 19, 2019 Detectives with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) secured warrants on an additional suspect in the August 26, 2019 arson/murder of Austin James Nicholson (W/M, 24 YOA). Detectives and Agents charged Carlos Fredrico Hightower (B/M, 28 YOA) with the below offenses which are connected to the 2019 arson/murder. The 2019 arson/murder of Nicholson stems from the 20

You are mistaken, my intent was never to turn this political.

I don't know about religion, but semantics is in full bloom. RE: foxmeister. True, a decade and a half ago, the Brazilian rain forest was being destroyed at a truly alarming rate. It is true that landowners; if you can call them that, were clearing the land at an unsustainable rate in 2004 and before as they were owning the land by destroying the forest and claiming the land. This is how agriculture was expanded for eons. You burn it and then a year or two later the remaining ash combines with the dirt and you've got fertile soil for a few growing seasons; then you have to go on a

Yes, I used to work hard at this. gpatton

SG: Even today in parts of the world (why limit it to mainland China and Venezuela) people are methodically burning the last remaining rain forests and pumping out oil, gas and coal in an apparent effort to see if Co2 levels reach 6 parts per million in the atmosphere, will we self immolate. It is doing this not because they want to immolate themselves or the government thinks it owns the peasants and can immolate them if they please, but because private industry is in many cases working hard to reinforce the ignorance that has led us to abuse of tobacco, opiates, energy and chemistry f

I'm thinking of getting an ebike for my birthday later this year. These things come in a variety of 'styles' and I'm expecting something kind of like this: folding full sized bike. I'm just curious if anyone else here has one; whether the SO will bust you for riding it on the Silver Comet Trail and just what folks think about these things for exercise; considering they can run at about 20mph without peddling at all and go as far as 25 miles with some peddling (and go as fast as 25mph to boot with peddling.) Oh, and does anyone have a map of Paulding's bicycle paths (other the SC

Just read a story in today's NYT about Harvard's first female professor, Alice Hamilton. She was apparently hired in the 1920s because then emerging public health field of industrial toxicology because: Alice Hamilton came to prominence because of her efforts to identify the health effects of free-base acids in the air, mercury milkshakes and the always unforgettable lead ingestion that was seemingly an elemental part of the manufacture of anything. The industrialists of the age were seemingly stupendous advocates for their factories by pointing out to authorities that what's a few

Not really ... There is a vision here and you are welcome to help realize that vision. My vision when I founded the site was to have folks imagine a big bulletin board on the Dallas Square where everyone could post messages and read them. Then the folks, like some of the group of nine, saw in paulding.com the ability to reach out and help folks. A lot of the time, pcom was only the organizing nexus, like in the relief sent to the victims of Katrina. But when it comes to making this place rock, the most the most important part of their task is to inspire you folks to interact.

Scientists and Philosophers have been asking that question for eons. Some believe we are the way we are because of our genetics; others feel that nurture - i.e. culture, education, etc. determine each of us as unique, self-directed beings. Still others see everything in the world as determined including the decisions you make two minutes, two days and two months from now. (Actually, some claim the individual ultimately has no control over anything as this line of thought says all things have been predetermined, including the time you woke up this morning.) Contrasting with that is

That is one helpful little mutt. ... and too bad there was no meat in that vegetable soup. .... When daddy spills the soup, it is not a problem 'cause he has lots of friends. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. gpatton

I like the part of the story where the 80 year old doctor teaches himself video editing to put together the interviews he did in movie form and won awards :) .. Great story. Thanks for sharing. gpatton

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Actually, if it is a good idea, then the only reason it is unlikely is because those who see it as a good idea aren't willing to put time into an effort to make it happen. The easiest path would be for a third-party entity (non-profit board) to adopt the effort as a project. A new board could be formed for this purpose. Another board that might be interested would be the community services board which deals with mental health. This would more likely be the route if there is movement on the gun issue in terms of expanded mental health services. Which ever organizing route cho

That is a good question and the answer may be 'nothing.' ... because any 'repurpose' of the property is going to be based on the utility or lack thereof of the facility. For instance, this is the last time we had an old jail, that building was torn down. (The location is where Helping Hands now resides) This was accomplished at least five years after the old jail closed. Currently the juvenile facility just around the corner from the old jail (on the other side of the not completely abandoned Shaw Industries building in the north industrial park) is also vacant and, while there may be