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Bears repeating. Well said.

So it's OK to accuse someone of wearing blinders and "drinking the Kool Ade" because they disagree with you? You refuse to listen to several logical reasons (as well as some other possible reasons at play) why the county doesn't log onto an unaffiliated website to post the news. If I had to guess, I'd say the city of Atlanta isn't logging onto the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to post city news. They more than likely post news on their own website as well as send press releases out to news outlets via email. If the county posted on Pcom, they'd then likely have the Paulding Neighbor re

The county's public service announcements are already made available online, and anyone with an internet connection can log on and see them. Pubby, the Dallas New Era, the Paulding Neighbor, and/or any other website or media entity is, I'm sure, more than welcome to pull them from the county website and publish those items themselves. So, in your words, the PSAs are already available to as many citizens as possible. In a world where entities, both public and private, expect fewer employees to do more with less, most governments don't take the time to log onto third-party sites to publ

I could be wrong, but I don't think the county government walks into the Paulding Neighbor's office to type up announcements or design the pages for such announcements, nor do they do so for the New Era. Yes, the latter does publish legal notices, but since it's the designated legal organ, it must run those, and the government has to pay for them. Beyond that, the government has no impetus to do any media outlet's work for them. I don't know if the county sent out a press release on the "Chipper" event or not, but if so, Pubby could have taken a few minutes and posted it ins

It's not a government or any entity's responsibility to log onto a media website and post news. Their only responsibility is to release news to the press (in what you would call "press releases"). If Pubby wants this news on his site, it's his responsibility to post it himself, or hire/recruit someone to do it.

And who determines whether or not a board is successful? Who is to say there aren't folks who believe the board has been successful? As you point out, Thompson has been on the board for a while, so he's been appointed and reappointed a few times (and by a number of iterations of the Board of Commissioners, I'm guessing). Why don't you ask them if they think he has been successful, since they appointed him? You're calling Thompson a mouthpiece, which denotes that he doesn't make the final decision, so if the decision-makers decide to make the airport commercial, then it wasn't r

As you would say, Whitey "shame on you," because you really took the scaremongering up to 11 with this one. So how does it work — do commercial airports fly murderers and rapists into their communities? I think you've mentioned the homelessness that's going to pop up once the commercial airport starts operating. How does that work? Do homeless folks drive, or maybe carpool, to areas with airports?

You, I think, are the first person I've seen criticize the IBA/AA board members for not "doing their job." What, exactly, have they been doing or not been doing? Boards like these are designed to have a staggered schedule for replacing board members. That setup allows each iteration of the organization tasked with naming board members to have the ability to name at least one board member during their time in office. The setup also allows the board to have a mostly consistent and knowledgeable makeup, meaning you don't have a majority of your board members with experience leaving all at onc

Looks like whomever authored this announcement (I'm assuming it wasn't you, Tundra) needs to get a little bit more schooling, at least in the subject of English language arts.

He needs to be kicked off. This is a user who continues to bump his own threads by replying to himself when no one else does (despite being told by pubby/the mods not to), makes off-topic comments in other threads, and as gog8tors points out and is evident here, makes racist comments.

I don't know Beach Bum, but you keep making these assertions. This isn't the topic to make these accusations, and I've seen you provide no evidence that BB did anything.

But if you automatically indict, you're already sentencing someone to weeks or months (maybe even years?) of stress waiting for a trial to begin, and then the trial itself. Yes, that situation would make some cops think twice about using deadly force. But what do you expect them to do? Ask the suspect to remove their clothes to make sure they're not hiding a gun or knife anywhere on their body? How do you know an unarmed suspect wouldn't grab the nearest blunt object to attack the officer or someone else? And how do you know an unarmed suspect will only use their fists to try to knock out

Good Lord. And you have the nerve to point fingers at conservatives and say they're wearing tinfoil hats. And using the phrase "just like pedophiles like to lap things up from little children"? Disgusting. It's scary to think that if you were of the right political persuasion, and were against the airport, that you might be a commissioner-elect of Paulding County right now. *shudder*

And note that it airs when most people are at work. What does that say about its audience?

College students who live on campus are bound to be more likely to choose to remain registered in their home city/county, or just won't bother to register to vote where they temporarily reside. The likelihood that they would register would increase in off-campus housing, which would make the polling place's distance from campus less of a factor.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people mentioned by surepip think what they did was right. Others may think they were just doing their jobs, doing what was ordered, whether right or wrong. And still some others may have done something wrong and know it. And not all the people mentioned are elected officials. Some work underneath elected officials, while others work under those appointed by those officials. I'm not saying calling a spade a spade is wrong. What I was saying is that airing out the issues in public doesn't help your cause. These folks, whether in the right or wrong,

Let me first say that I haven't followed your whole ordeal from day one. But the parts I highlighted in bold are one reason I think they kept going after you: You made it personal. Had you left it to the legal battles, they may have let you win. And if your case favored you as strongly as you believe it did, you likely would've won in the end. But for yearrs, you've called out these people in public. "King Jerry." "The Firm." Etc. What good does that do? If they didn't want this to go to trial anyway, name-calling and bashing wasn't going to do you any good. The worst it could

You're pushing for folks to spend money outside the county, and therefore deprive Paulding from those tax dollars...yet you criticized one member here (Beach Bum, I think) for recently going out to lunch at a place outside the county, and opined that folks who live outside the county lines shouldn't be able to share their opinions on the airport because they have "no skin in the game." It's a bit hypocritical if you ask me.

No, you can be yourself. But leaving your signature on it to let everyone know you're a candidate reeks of self-promotion. Sorry, but that's just my opinion.

The end of your original message seems to indicate otherwise. Your message would've be seen as genuine had you left this off.

The topic wasn't started to combine all the cop-bashing articles into one topic. The OP said she didn't like seeing the multiple topics that bashed police officers, yet the poster in question proceeded to bash those who wear the badge, even the "good ones." The comment didn't belong in this topic. You and the mods always say that if you don't agree with the OP's topic, just ignore it and move on. Comment #12 and several others that followed it are a prime example of this not happening, and a blatant example of there being different sets of rules depending on the user. And many of those comme

I wanted to remind two posters in this thread what momof 3's original post was about. In short, she doesn't like the multiple threads bashing cops. It didn't take long for her to receive this response. Now it's sort of on topic, but not really—it doesn't debate momof 3's original post about not liking all the cop-bashing threads. While this poster could have debated the merits of the multiple threads bashing cops, he doesn't, and goes on to hijack the thread by bashing police officers. Several posts like this one are made: His post here could've been made into its own thread,

It amazes me that he implicates Delta for fighting the airport's commercialization, but commercialization opponents on here say the airline isn't funding their fight. Wonder why no one here is refuting that statement?

Clark Howard on his 5:45 p.m. audio blurb on WSB yesterday weighed in on Delta's opposition to commercial airline service in Paulding County. He said the airline is being hypocritical by opposing the establishment of commercial service (and funding opposition against it) in Paulding, but complaining about their company being forced out of the second commercial airport serving Dallas, Texas. In short, Howard took them to task for complaining about the city of Dallas' move to reduce competition, yet have been working to reduce competition in their own backyard here in our own little city of Dall

I meant it's not out of the ordinary for any government body to hold a meeting at that hour. Even if it's not the group's regular meeting time, there has to be a first time for everything, including a morning meeting time.