All these people running for state office are complaining about how evil gambling is.My question is, would the do-gooders on goat hill in Montgomery turn down the evil tax money that a person in Alabama would have to pay, if they were to win that evil lottery in Georgia?
I’m betting they wouldn’t.
Woody Hinton
Anniston
Road signs
I totally agree with the recent “Speak Out” article concerning political signs along rights-of-way and on telephone poles. A good example is Johnny Alexander who is retired from the sheriff’s department but still works there part-time. He has placed numerous signs at every intersection — state and county rights-of-way. Surely as a sheriff’s deputy he knows this is against the law.
I encourage all voters to look at these candidates’ signs and locations and vote for candidates who are not violating the law.
Cindy Lowery
Anniston
Commission
I am speaking out on behalf of J. D. Hess, candidate for county commission. I have had the opportunity to know Mr. Hess for over 10 years. I met him prior to starting the Foggy Hollow Bluegrass Gatherin’ in 1992 in the Webster’s Chapel community.
Mr. Hess has been more than helpful to our festival in many ways. He has helped us with directional road signs, with spreading the word of our festival through the tourism board, helped with assistance through our local chamber of commerce, as well as his personal enthusiasm for our event. He has always been willing to donate to us the grills and smokers we need to cook for our concession area. I look forward to the opportunity to have J. D. Hess back in office as our county commissioner.
Glen Williams
Wellington
Brown’s war
I lived in the Munford area all of my life, except for nine months when we moved to Tyler, Texas in 1952. I was only in the seventh grade. My youngest sister died there with leukemia. Years later my second sister, a beautiful high school girl, after three malignant tumors were removed from the base of her skull, died.
In March 2002 Dr. Arthur L. Frank, M.D., Ph.D., came from Tyler, Texas, to Anniston to give expert testimony on monitoring for PCBs.
In essence, his testimony was if you trace a potential medical problem back to its point of origin there should/could be established a health monitoring system.
Based on Dr. Frank’s testimony, and there were others, someone is obligated to do an honest investigation of the alleged PCB concerns.
After 50 years of waiting, I think it’s time to put finality to these problems. Oh, but wait, who can we trust to do the job? The state? ADEM and the judicial system? Or a loose EPA and the future agenda of the Republican Party?
I can’t see why the judge keeps rushing the trial, and the local elite keep referring to West Anniston. The PCB problem is way bigger than these.
Gene Brown
Munford
Tax Reform
Perhaps there should be more stringent scrutiny of the current taxes being paid by property owners at present. Maybe there would be no problem with income from property taxes if everyone paid what they are legally responsible for paying.
Not everyone pays their true, legal, responsible taxes. My husband and I own a small piece of property in another county. One of the property owners adjacent to our property pays nearly 400 percent less taxes on their property than we do on our property.
Their property is even appraised at a higher value than ours. How is this possible?
They also live in another county and are not entitled to certain exemptions they claim. I know this because their tax bill has come to our address for six years!
The individual’s professional position seems to exempt him from the laws that the rest of us obey.
Why not enforce the laws we already have in place? There should be someone checking on these property owners’ claims.
Patsy Caldwell
Lineville
