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Most Supreme Courts have been activist courts. Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board are just two prior cases where there court overruled the wishes of some states. It's kind of what the court does, and it's good to have a branch of government to step in when a state goes too far. That's your checks and balances right there. "Activist court" has been made into a bad term over the last few years, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.

True, in a sense. But court decisions set judicial precedent, which are in a sense a form of laws. And our country has allowed our Supreme Court to strike down laws deemed unconstitutional. The same-sex marriage case is no different from dozens of decisions before it, and if many other counties and states can immediately start allowing same-sex couples to marry, then one county clerk in Kentucky can as well, and has no legal leg to stand on if she wishes to deny any couple a marriage certificate.

She is still free to exercise her religion—in her home, her church, etc. I haven't seen any legal decisions that support her actions of outright refusing to do a crucial duty of her job due to her religion. The Constitution > the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution grants same-sex couples the right to be married under the law. Kentucky's laws against this "still stand" only in the sense that they are still spelled out and haven't been struck down by the state's legislature, but they are in fact moot at this point due to the Supreme Co

We're sure you do.

Good lord. You and your ilk keep parroting this old chestnut. Some of the members get on these boards because they are elected representatives (the mayors, for instance). Others are appointed by government entities, just like the members of many other quasi-government entities are. There are many boards and authorities in this state and country that have boards represented by elected government officials and citizens appointed by government entities. You may not elect each and every member, but you often elect the people who select people for these board slots. That's a part of representat

Wow. With the terrible grammar, that's hard to read. And yet you're the one who slung the "stupid" insults. There have been so many accusations of county employees benefiting and "so-and-so's friends" and "you-know-who's" relatives making bank on this, and yet no wrongdoing has been proven and no one is facing charges. If you're going to argue against the airport, at least bring some facts to the table.

This comment highlights several of your problems. One, you're insulting those who voted for those two candidates, and some of those people may be, or could be, your paying customers. Two, you have (currently and in the past) insulted/slammed two politicians when you should be an unbiased reporter, or at least should aim to be. And three, you seemed to slam these candidates because they weren't buying ads on your site during the election season, while some of their opponents were. I don't know if your negative comments toward them were based on that fact, but they sure seemed to be. I h

Not to mention Pubby's repeated slamming of Bill Heath and Paulette Braddock. That led to the downfall of their reelection bids. Oh wait...

So the guilty dog barks first. And has the audacity to defend his off-topic ramblings. If you want to bring up examples of police shootings of suspects, start your own topics. None of them have anything to do this story of the Alabama officer who was attacked.

Can we split off all the off-topic replies that have nothing to do with the attacked officer in Alabama?

"New York City?!?" "Get a rope!" Your investment firm from New York City isn't funding a fight with "the citizens of Paulding County." At best, they're fighting a few residents—not the entirety of the county. Again, you stand by your assertion that the outsiders fighting for commercialization are bad, but the outsiders from Atlanta shouldn't be fought by those in Paulding trying to get a potential economic driver off the ground. I guess county leaders just ought to send any and all potential companies considering Paulding over to Atlanta instead, or at least to Cobb County, right?

You're always quick to say that most of the Chamber leadership isn't from Paulding, implying that these outsiders don't have the best interests of the county or its residents in mind. Yet you're criticizing the county's airport authority for taking on an outside entity in the hopes of securing what could be a financial benefit to Paulding. So outsiders in the local chamber is bad, but letting outsiders win a fight for the local airport is good? Sounds like you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. If the Chamber leadership was entirely local, and they still supported commercializ

That isn't the same as covering an election and reporting on the issues of it. I remember (and I searched your archives to prove it) there being little to no coverage of the November 2013 elections, one issue of which was Sunday sales in Dallas. One of the members even posted, "I didn't see any posts about this. Are y'all aware there's an election tomorrow?" http://paulding.com/forum/topic/305492-election-day-tomorrow/ It still amazes me that the word "News" remains in this site's logo.

I won't dispute that, but it seems that few elections in Paulding are advertised as much as they ought to be. With no true daily news source and only a weekly newspaper serving the county, there are few media outlets to let people know about a local election or what said election is about.

I only meant citizens as in non-elected officials. I wasn't arguing that they were or had to be residents.

Why does a candidate winning with a seemingly small number of votes matter? As you said, "Only the folks that took the time to go and vote count." Yeah, so? She took the majority of ballots, despite a small percentage of eligible voters casting ballots, much like your favored commission candidates did. And her election may have had more voters had it been held during a normal election day, but it was a special election held after the previous mayor resigned. As for having her serve on these boards, it's typical to see elected officials serve on government boards. As for others, it

Didn't Jamie Gilbert get paid by the cities/county, or work for an entity that got money from the cities/county? If so, he's a public figure. Sorry if you don't want his full name to be used, but if he's a public figure, what he did during his time in Paulding is a public matter and the public should feel free to discuss him.

And what was the goal of your original post? Seems to me that you're trying to "stir up the mess," too. You accuse the "powers that be" of causing so much hate and discontent, yet your posts are full of it as well. And you seem to forget that most of those among the "powers that be" were elected by your community. No business wants to come to a county where a small group of people attempt to block progress. Who has come to Paulding since the anti-airport people got going?

And it's always greed that drives the rich, isn't it?

Your "machine shop" with "five smart guys" that build custom automobiles is still five jobs created by those who have the money to buy expensive automobiles. It's not a huge impact, but it's an impact. And those five jobs are likely going to be better paying jobs because they'll require people with expertise with those makes/models and not just a regular worker from any auto plant. Yes, markets create jobs, and the markets—i.e. consumers—are the ones that have concentrated the wealth into the pockets of the few, not some "economic system." We don't visit Joe at the butcher shop anymore—we

"the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs" It's ridiculous to claim that the rich don't create jobs. If the billionaire buys a sports car, a yacht, a mansion...someone has to build those things. That's one way they create jobs. And even if they keep most money in the bank, that's money that the banks have to invest in business, lend to consumers, etc. The return on those dollars as it relates to common folk may be harder to quantify, but it's still an impact. But back to the example of the rich person who spends his/her money. Now, that sports car ma

And why would I choose to spend three hours of my life watching a video to find these answers? Posting YouTube videos of public meetings isn't news. Condensing what happened into an easily digestible format would be. I don't disagree that the amendment is meaningless, because I have done some research on it. But someone new to the issue who read your statement would have no idea why you would call it meaningless, because you have explained nothing about it. If you're going to keep "news" in the logo of this website, it's your job to do so.

The BOC met for over three hours yesterday and made some progress on the Reservoir, What kind of progress? recognized some folks... Who? And for what? commiserated about the fatal accident... What fatal accident? while continuing to split on the future of the airport by passing a meaningless amendment to the Intergovernmental agreement with the Airport Authority. Well, without context behind your statement, it reeks of bias, but it's not hard to see where you stand on the airport issue. So I guess this is what passes for the "news" on this site now. No wonder

" right smack in the middle of accident potential zone B" That just reads as very callous and in poor taste given that you made this post right after posting about (and during the same day of) the fatal plane crash on I-285. Four people lost their lives in that crash, and many more lives were affected by it. If your comment was referencing something else, then it's very unfortunate timing on your part, but for the life of me, I can't see any other meaning behind your statement.

Word processors and other programs can switch to multiple fonts on the fly. Just have schools use a smartboard, tablet or other computer screen, highlight text and change it to various fonts to show how our 26 letters can come in many different styles. As long as you can grasp that each letter has a certain basic shape, the font (even script/cursive fonts) doesn't matter. If you're going to teach them that their letters must look a certain way, you may as well tell them next to write their letters in Comic Sans.