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Mariposa

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  1. Call the police when you see it, they want to get these guys.

    There will be a forum tomorrow night 7pm at the Dallas theater, talk ask questions.

    It is not futile, but it is hard to catch the guys that jump out of a truck, grab something for scrap and drive off.

    They do catch them, ask to look at the arrest records, they do catch some of them.

    If you harass them with searches they may leave, but they go somewhere else in the county and keep doing what they do.

    For every 10 you lock up, 10 more replace them. We have a huge Meth problem here.

    As long as people keep deciding to do drugs it will never end.

     

    Harass the heck out of them!!!! Let them go somewhere else...hopefully at least out of county. Make it tough so that they do take up and move to where life is easier to do drugs. Maybe we can't defeat them totally, but get them out of here.

  2. I am going to try to attend tomorrow. I'm not faulting Mayor Austin or the police. I do get frustrated because I see it getting worse, but there's probably a lot being done that I don't see.

     

    I'm voting for Austin, not complaining against him :). I like what they've done to downtown and hope it continues, but what I want them focused on, more than anything, is crime. Just letting that be known.

  3. You can't just stop people because they fit the picture, you can't drag them off the street start searching them or force them to take drug test.

    The folks that live in these certain areas never call the police.

    We all know where they are and what they do and they are carefully watched and the areas well patrolled.

     

    If you push them out then they scatter and do what they do unobserved.

    The petty crime is no higher there than all over the county.

    Pubby and I ran the stats.

     

    There is a problem everywhere with crimes of convenience, where they drive up and help themselves to anything not locked down and sell it for scrap.

     

    I think because the downtown area is so small we all take notice, but it is everywhere.

     

    They mess up sometimes, like beating someone taking his pants and leaving him in the streets, but for the most part they lay very low and our LE still has to follow the law as far as probable cause.

     

    There is a crime problem in parts of Dallas. I'm not saying there isn't crime other places, but this is where I live, and I know it exists and is getting worse. Some of those people do call the police in those areas. Are you really saying that it is futile to combat crime in Dallas?

     

    I think that is priority one for Dallas government, even above the beautification. Crime is a problem and is getting bigger. That's what I want addressed.

     

    Drugs are being sold in public on the streets, that's not petty crime. I've witnessed it. That may lead to petty crime and other problems, but the drugs are the root and our local police need the resources and latitude to deal with a problem that is getting bigger.

  4. Ok here is my point of view.

     

    1-Low crime rate

     

    2-Restored Dallas theater

     

    3-Civic center

     

    4-The town services are great

     

    5-Well run town government

     

    6-Very clean town

     

    7-Updated the police force

     

    8-Remember when the nativity scene was under attack,he stood strong and it stayed.

     

    Now if you recall the whole downtown was re-done,parking is an issue that everyone has.The churches and there presence is a family and community strong hold. Churches aren't the problem,if you think they are maybe you should go inside one.:blush:

     

    Also the old court house and the Winn building were turned into college class rooms. Looks like within the limits of Dallas he has done allot.

     

    I agree with some of these points, but if you walk one block from the court house toward the hospital (West??? I think), you will encounter a not-so-low crime rate. I can also pin-point MANY areas inside Dallas with not-so-low crime rates, its getting worse and not better from what I've seen. That's the number one thing I want the city govt to address.

  5. LMAO.. "the town is beautiful" Its an "enchanted wonderland" at Christmas? Seriously? LOL. What cracks me up is that beautification is not a reason to vote for someone. Dont get me wrong.. I LIKE HIM a lot as a person, and we could definitely have a lot worse of a mayor.So i am definitely not sure about the person running against him but that being said...

     

    1. Whats business like in the city of Dallas?

    2. Do we have any customers heading downtown to purchase, Drink, Eat, or simply to Grab a book and read while using any of the downtown businesses?

    3. Whats happening to bring more business downtown?

     

    These are the important stuff. Not how pretty it is. With businesses fleeing and closing because there is no parking close, no restaurants that bring folks into the city, No businesses adding employees to bring money there.. its not gotten as far as it should have by now. Basically... HIRAM is kicking Dallas' Butt every year in Tax revenue and in serving its citizens without property taxes on their homes...

     

    I'm still with Boyd but I would like to see Dallas Grow business and bring money from other places downtown and help bring people downtown to "see how beautiful" and "wonderlandish" it is.

     

    Animal, Im not attacking you at all, but you have to admit.... That was sorta silly reasoning.

     

    Actually, I do walk downtown. If you get there early enough, there's antiques and a bakery. Nice for a short walk. Its not quite "there" but much better than it used to be. I do wish the tattoo place and dui school would not be so front and center and there could be more places open later like a coffee shop and more places to eat. Maybe I'll get my wish in the future.

  6. It is the motel behind the liquor store... the two are not affiliated in any way... two different owners... i understand that everyone needs somewhere to live, but the motel is home to some crazy stuff... seems like the city and county will get tired of it and find a way to put an end to all the mess back there

     

    Nope, been going on for years and years!!!!

  7. I think it is a little unfair to say they have little fear something will be done to them ... I looking up these guys and getting their mug shots, I also saw their 'local' rap sheets ... so I can pretty much tell you 'something has been done to them' as a couple have records going back to 1990 or before ... when the 39 year old guyss were 18 and 19.

     

    It might be better to say they don't have much fear of what will happen to them because things have been happening to these folks for years.

     

    I know I would find living their lives undesirable and I'm sure they do too; it is just that what they do when unsupervised pretty much puts them in the queue for more close supervision.

     

    pubby

     

     

    Drive thru there from time to time and you will see a lot goings on. Its a bad area and getting worse. I'm sure most of those folks do have long records, but its not deterring them from the current behavior. I don't think we're disagreeing on what's happening, maybe its just the wording.

  8. My gut is that is all the folks who made the decision to move forward are asking ... is give it a chance. They did enough due diligence in terms of research to change their normal skepticism and make them proponents and advocates.

     

    I think those who are vocal critics find joy in the fact that a 'movie studio' in Paulding just on its face doesn't seem particularly plausible, largely because 'there ain't never been one beefore ... and what does these folks think they is, Hollywood moguls?"

     

    It is just easy to ridicule from the point of view of conventional wisdom.

     

    But hey, we don't know that these guys (RoadTown Enterprises) don't have a deal with a major studio to arrange the whole thing, get it built and someone like Sony, Fox or MGM won't come in and buy the whole thing, lock stock and barrel. Stranger things have happened.

     

    The point is that conservative folks like David Austin and Tommie Graham don't do silly things like get stars in their eyes because someone from LA dropped by with a line.

     

    What we do know is that Georgia and Atlanta has one of the better established film/video production communities in the nation. Folks live here actually make a living in this business including the unit production manager for A Joyful Noise in Dallas last year (Almost all the staff doing the shooting were Georgia residents.)

     

    We also know that Paulding is just close enough that producers won't have to pay travel and travel time to folks getting jobs here from other parts of Atlanta, which they would, for instance, have to do if the facility were located in Rome.

     

    Still Austin and Graham, who are taking the point on this promoting this projecting and paving its way know that voters can be unforgiving if, in the final analysis, this project was pure folly.

     

    The good news is that we're going to know the answer of whether it is will fulfill its promise by April 2012 ... or not. Yes, by April 1, 2012 we'll all know. Until then, lets knock on some holly wood for luck.

     

    pubby

     

     

     

    You're right about that Bruce. While I suspect if this is a flop, a couple of commissioners may have some opposition come July 2012, I don't think we should be overly critical of their efforts. I mean I wouldn't want an ostrich, his or her head permanently buried in sand, in office.

     

    pubby

     

     

    I have ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM with a movie studio being built in this county. I have a problem with taxpayer money being used to do it.

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  9. If you check your history books, Columbus voyage was a venture of the government of Spain.

     

    The railroads were a venture of the United States government which paid for expansion of rail in large part by granting the railroads lands adjacent to the rail lines. The railroads set up cities using these lands that were granted. Ditto the Erie Canal which opened areas adjacent to the Great Lakes by linking Lake Erie to the Hudson River and assured New York's place as a center of trade and export.

     

    You do know that ventures such as the original electric plant in Dallas was a public enterprise entered into by community leaders back in the early part of the 20th century. Consider the public financing components of Turner Stadium. If the Braves moved back to Milwaukee, the public would be on the hook for the stadium, you know.

     

    Winston and Tom:

     

    I understand you guys are conservatives of the Grover Norquist kind - you won't be happy until government has been dragged to the bathroom and drowned. Similarly, the very existence of the Paulding County Industrial Building Authority, created by state law in 1961, is against every fiber of your political soul. I suspect your goal in this effort is to have it taken to the bathtub and drowned.

     

    Of course we also know there are other authorities out there that allow the public to shape their future for the betterment of all.

     

    I know you're just as opposed to the Dallas Housing Authority with its public housing projects in the city. I'm sure you're against the Paulding County Water and Sewer Authority, which created and I believe still owns the water lines administered by the Water Dept. The hospital authority, which leases the hospital to WellStar, but still holds not only the title but the certificate of need for the health services in Paulding, recently put the county taxpayer on the line (with the assent of the commission) for somewhere between $30-40 million of the over $100,000,000 new Paulding Hospital project.

     

    We taxpayers owe the same due to the bond holders of those developments, you do know, but not so much as a peep.

     

    The purpose of the IBA is to develop the local economy and make it more vital and vibrant. Its sole purpose is to bring jobs to the county. It is an expression of the community's freedom and will to progress.

     

    While I know you're proud - elated - to stand in front of the movie studio and ridicule that effort, I'm curious why you weren't standing in front of the hospital two or three months ago with the commission voted to back those bonds? Or when they backed the bonds for the reconstruction of the Coppermine Sewer treatment facility or any number of other projects.

     

    I know your ideology is that the government should not have the power to invest in infrastructure or jobs or enterprise as a matter of faith that private capital will provide the enhancements the public wants and needs.

     

    But most citizens recognize the wisdom of government having these powers because it gives them the freedom to act as a group without dependence on the permission of a person or individual with capital.

     

    Anyone with any sense of history knows that during the early part of the 20th century, to bring electric power to any community other than the largest cities, required the creation of public utilities owned by the cities and towns. To obtain electricity, water systems or sewerage in a timely manner, communities like Dallas literally had to underwrite the investment and create the enterprise.

     

    Private capital - maybe it was smarter then - preferred the method of public financing made possible by these public authorities. They could loan their money for these efforts - building electric plants and distribution systems or water and sewer systems and be certain of the payback on attractive - often tax-free terms - with their capital investment secured by the taxing authority of the city or county.

     

    Smart money thought it was a good idea and would buy the bonds, encouraging the public authorities to make progressive investments in infrastructure and even jobs.

     

    Regardless, your ideology rejects such community-based actions and that makes your belief in what government should and should not do and mine vision vastly different.

     

    I see the projects from the original electrification of Dallas and Paulding County to the building of the first hospital and the new one slated for construction in 2014 as well as the movie venture are all proper acts by the government which is the expression of the public will to make things better.

     

    Your vision is and was violated with each and every one of those publicly financed projects, I know.

     

    But frankly, I'd rather have electricity, running water and flush toilets and the prospect of movie, television and other production-type jobs than no jobs at all.

     

    Philosophically, had we toed the line your philosophy demands, I sense we'd still be sitting in a damp cave waiting on some one with bags of money to come make our lives better by investing in my community.

    The idea that we have to wait for an individual to decide they want to do that conflicts with my concept of a communities self-determination or freedom.

     

    pubby

     

    As far as it being a potential raw deal for taxpayers ... every deal could be a raw deal for taxpayers. As stated above, the Braves could return to Milwaukee; back in 1920 when Dallas built its electric generating system, the residents could have decided they didn't want that new-fangled stuff - electricity could kill you. There are many projects - the Kia plant is one - that might become a white elephant and close. Those kinds of projects are risky but the alternative in a competitive world is that someone is going to get those jobs. The cost of acquiring those investments is always a risk but the other side of the coin is that if you don't take those risks, your community will die as folks leave it for jobs elsewhere.

     

     

    I think going back to Isabella and Ferdinand is a bit of a stretch with them being monarchs, not answering to tax payers, and the money being more of their own money than "government" money as with our government...but ok, there is an argument to be made that some of our former county officials acted in a similar fashion.

     

    Most of the other examples you listed above are infrastructure that benefits most or all of the citizens like roads. They are not risky projects. Electricity and city water/sewer were not pioneered by Dallas, and it was not much of a risk involved in investing in those things.

     

    As far as the stadium goes, is the Atlanta/Fulton county govt really an example we want to follow??????? hmmm

     

    I understand that a government needs to build some infrastructure, but I'm not sure that airport and this studio are truly infrastructure that will benefit most of the citizens of this county. There is a huge question mark about the planned purpose of that airport since its not located close to business or an interstate and we have few private planes in the county. It seems like the studio is a hail mary effort to find business for the airport. What is the next step???? Will the county fund its own movie theaters to show movies to make the studio successful? Maybe they should take a risk on bringing back drive-ins????

     

    I hope the airport and studio are both successful and I will gladly admit that I'm wrong. I just don't see it happening right now.

  10. This is very common in kids. Many learn their address and phone in time to start kindergarten, and the parents assume that the kids have learned it for all time. Then two, three, four years later, go ask the kids, and they do not know the info. Parents never went back later to see if kids remembered it. Now, with memory call and cell phone address books, even teens and adults are challenged to remember info that they carry with them.

     

    I understand why they don't know phone numbers and addresses like we did...BUT.. for safety reasons by middle school they should know their address and have at least 2 phone numbers memorized. When they get old enough that they are not within eyesight of a parent/adult at all times, they should be able to give contact information or call an adult if something happens to their phone.

  11. Hell yeah:

     

    If nobody ever built anything, no one would come :)

     

    Lets see, there wouldn't be a Paulding.com, a Dallas, an Atlanta, a Georgia, a United States, Canada, Mexico or even Cuba or Dominican Republic. (See the guy who built the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria didn't do it so Chris Columbus didn't come.)

     

    Yep, in a world like that with men surrounded by women who did nothing but laugh ... well they didn't come and the species when extinct.

     

    pubby

     

    But most of those were built with private money, not taxpayer money. If P.com fails, you are on the hook. If it makes money, you get the rewards. Its much different when all of this is being built with taxpayer money and someone else gets the rewards, IF there are ANY. Either way, the taxpayer is on the hook.

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  12. FYI

    Many of my 6th graders... (Many do, but many do not!!!)

     

    do not know their address

    have no phone numbers memorized

    do not know they live in Paulding County

    do not know the name of their state, country, etc

    (they've heard the names but get mixed up on which is state, county, country, etc)

    can't tell the months in order

    can't read an analog clock

     

    I have done a basic information quiz for the past 2 years and they tell me they haven't covered that info since kindergarten

  13. Another Republican on trial...imagine that!

     

    And what about the Democrat on the national news for lying about sexting??? I could easily make a comment about him and Clinton and many others...Guess what??? It has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican. We have a serious problem with ethics and politics on BOTH sides right now. I'm sick of it and I don't care what party they subscribe to. I just want ethical, honest choices and there are so few out there right now.

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