OpinionJanuary 19, 2016
Speak Out 1/19
The city wants more police officers; I don't have a problem with that but with each new officer comes a new police car. Why does each officer have to have their own car? There are several Cape officers living in Jackson and driving back and forth, that is an average of 100 miles a week each. Who's paying for the gas and maintenance?...
Who pays?
The city wants more police officers; I don't have a problem with that but with each new officer comes a new police car. Why does each officer have to have their own car? There are several Cape officers living in Jackson and driving back and forth, that is an average of 100 miles a week each. Who's paying for the gas and maintenance?
Paul Ryan's beard
In response to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's beard statement: He grows a beard to go hunting -- and not for "defenseless mushrooms," either. LOL
Gross receipts
Cape Girardeau may end gross receipts tax if the use tax passes sayeth a Cape city councilman. The operative word in the aforementioned is "may."
Reporting 'gifts'
I kid you not. The Missouri legislative session has barely begun but has already become a national laughingstock because some nincompoop legislator introduced a bill reclassifying sexual relations between and among legislative staffers and/or their bosses as "gifts" and therefore subject to reporting.
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Death penalty
It cost over $30,000 a year to house one prisoner and probably more for the ones on death row. For any person killed by one of these criminals, the Social Security survivors benefits program pays a special one-time lump sum amount (called the "death benefit") of $255 to help pay for funeral or burial costs for anyone who had qualified for Social Security benefits. And our Legislators want to do away with the death penalty. I know where their brains are, and it isn't in their heads.
Kudos to Haley
Kudos to Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who, in her rebuttal to President Obama, took time to uncategorically denounce the without mentioning it by name, the unctuous political philosophy known as Trumpism.
Bye, Rams
As for the Rams, I say goodbye to bad rubbish! Let the Los Angeles taxpayers lose money on a loser football team.
What cost?
This is the health care our legislators want to provide. A convicted serial killer on death row is allegedly receiving medical attention away from Louisiana State Penitentiary. A spokesperson for the Department of Safety and Corrections says Derrick Todd Lee is having medical problems. Another source tells 9News that Lee's pacemaker may have failed, and that he was taken to an unknown hospital. But only to the ones serving on death row. How much are we paying to keep a killer alive?
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