Mama Carol

I'm actually upset that my 12 year old granddaughter has one even though I know her dad monitors her activity VERY closely. She's had it at least two years. I really feel she's too young. A six year old with a FB page? No way in hell.

Our middle daughter has ADD and has since she was a little kid. Unless she has taken medication for it since she became an adult, she has never been medicated. Thank goodness!! There is no way a 39 year old woman could do everything she does in a day without being in overdrive all the time. She works full time, goes to school full time AND takes care of her family (3 kids and a husband and a whole zoo of animals). ADD *can* be an advantage. Being drugged up can be detrimental.

Just who do you think might be behind the "free birth control" for women? Drug companies maybe? I had my own experience with "running to the doctor to get a prescription" when my GYN did my yearly blood work. I won't make that mistake again. Anyway, the NURSE and apparently not the doctor, stressed how important it was for me to go to my primary care to get a prescription for a cholesterol reducing drug AND a blood sugar lowering drug in spite of the fact that my cholesterol is only minimally high and my blood sugar is normal. WTF? No way am I going to ruin my liver, which I already

Actually, the amount of tax collected for the county goes to the county regardless of the TSPLOST. If Paulding has 3 extra cents tax per dollar, it gets 3 extra cents per dollar plus whatever it is due from the 4 cents that is the state tax. It's just that those 3 cents are designated for certain things. And thanks. I think voters did a great job.

Wonder if some of those politicians now wish they hadn't been elected since the $100 limit on lobbyist gifts passed?

Isn't that fee paid to the state and not the county even though you can get them in the county?

Another thing that would help shorten the drive would be if employers would actually hire someone who didn't live 30 miles away. Most of the jobs I have interviewed for were at least a half hour drive away--92 and Cobb Parkway in Acworth, I-285 and South Cobb Drive in Smyrna, New Georgia, New Hope, Burnt Hickory--all a half hour drive for me. The closest one was a 3-5 minute drive, depending on whether or not I caught the traffic light green or whether it had just changed to red. I personally think that employers don't want someone who lives close. It's like they think if you live clo

I got the birth certificate a few years ago for some reason and found that for all of my life up to that point, I spelled my middle name differently than it appears on my birth certificate. But got that one. As for the marriage certificate, I've been married for 34 years. I still have the paper. I don't think there is an expiration date on it. But I don't have to renew until 2015 (I think). Youngest daughter has to renew this year. Oh joy. I will be the one taking her. I've already given her a list of everything she needs so she should have everything. I hope so. I sure do

My hubby has learned that, too. Finally, after 30 something years.

And being the intelligent man you are, you did what your wife said you could do. After all, if Mama ain't happy, NOBODY is happy.

If you looked at the list of projects that were proposed then you saw they were almost EXCLUSIVELY state roads. Not local roads. STATE roads. On the list of proposed projects for Paulding, there were 13 projects. Ten of them are on state roads. Business 6, 120, 360 and 61. Hmmmmm. I noticed 92 wasn't on there and I thought this was pushed by people who claimed 92 would be widened as well. Here's a link to the list if you don't believe it. http://www.it3.ga.gov/Documents/FinalList/Northwest-FinalInvestmentList.pdf And EXACTLY what is an "advanced management system project"?

What needs to happen is that the little (I) next to their name on the ballot needs to disappear. If a voter, who is often either uninformed or misinformed, doesn't know who is already serving in the position they might vote for who they have heard the most good things about and vote against the one who they have heard the most bad things about. Since few people really have a clue who represents them, it really is to that "public" servant's advantage to have (I) next to their name. I don't have a dog in any Paulding fight but I am disappointed in some of the results, simply because I have

I agree, totally!!

I remember a time, back in the mid-2000s, when Paulding was among the five fastest growing counties in the US. Then the housing market collapsed.

Hey! I resemble that remark.

Call me a cynic, and you can see my membership card in that club if you like, but we all know what will happen regardless of how anything is "worded". Throwing money at it won't help that either. I don't know about Paulding but I'd be willing to bet that Cobb has 3 "administrators" for every teacher in the classroom. And overcrowded classes. And vacant classrooms. Money is NOT the answer. Not for education and not for transportation.

I voted, around 2 p.m. The place was busy but there was no line. The biggest wait was for the little man who gave us instructions on go over there and fill that out, then go over there with your ID, etc. He had stepped away from the table and it took him a little while to get back. I got back in about 25 minutes. My hubby was surprised it took that long. I told him it wouldn't have if I hadn't stood there in the parking lot and talked to a friend for 10 minutes.

Actually, I see the value of the military, VA Hospitals (though I wish veterans received better treatment, because we owe them that). The Space Program has benefited every single people on the planet whether they know it or not. The NIH is a wonderful organization. I haven't read their information in a while. I used to read them and the FDA "raw", i.e., before the information was watered down for public consumption. It isn't up to the Surgeon General to keep me from smoking. My lung problems caused by my mom smoking when I was a child was enough to keep me from ever taking it up. Also t

Pcom has had an impact on my life that I can't even begin to list. I have WONDERFUL friends I met on here, or met again as the case may be. That's just the beginning of the impact. I :wub: :wub: Pcom.

Nope. You and I are voting on the same one but those in Paulding are voting on a different one.

Awesome!!

I despise paying for something that I don't use--like truck friendly lanes and I-85 interchanges in Gwinnett County. And why should senior citizens who drive fewer than 5000 miles a year, and on side roads at that, have to pay for interstate exchanges in a neighboring county? I thought the interstates were supposed to be supported with federal money anyway. But we will all have to pay for things we don't use and in some cases, things we CANNOT use, if the vote is yes. Like I said, if by "transportation" it was meant putting in PUBLIC transportation that would help get cars off the roa

In the debate the other night, I believe it was Senator Fort (though it could have been Chip Rogers) who made the comment that once these projects are built, they have to be maintained and guess where THAT money will come from? Yep, a extension of the "temporary" TSPLOST or a raise in taxes. If the state isn't able to maintain the roads and bridges they have now, how in the world do we think they can maintain more just because they (maybe, eventually) get built? And the "improvements" for my area? Truck friendly lanes on 278 and a "traffic management system". I really think if the truc

There were times when we only had one or two kids at the bus stop and always there was a parent with them. Otherwise, they walked, even from the end of the street. Mine probably got dropped off a combined 10 times between the 3 of them. I would meet them at the bus stop if it was really cold or if it was raining. 4 miles a day x 180 days adds up a good bit of miles when you could just as easily driven them 1/4 mile instead. Saved on fuel, saves on traffic and IT IS SAFER than driving them yourself. Yes, they do. My niece works there and van pooled when she was working downt

Yep. I dialed my former boss.