Letters

What is a public servant? I believe a public servant is one who walks with God.
I remember when I was out in sin, the things that meant most to me always referred back to what I could do to promote my own agenda. After I accepted Jesus, I had a different outlook on life. This outlook was to serve Jesus first of all, then Jesus would give me direction to serve others.
A few weeks ago, one of the girls who worked in my office, said, “Junior, why don’t you run for judge again, we would go in there and give the people a 75 percent tax cut.”

I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for running Ashley Scoby’s opinion piece in last week’s newspaper entitled “Spencer County is great, but deserves better.” It was a well written piece that echoed much truth through the eyes of someone who is a talented writer and has taken a bird’s eye glimpse into our community. And yes, she is right, we deserve better.

Twenty-six states have stand-your-ground laws on the books (including Kentucky). Eric Holder recently has been critical of these laws because he feels they contribute to situations like the one involving Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.
This was a tragedy.

We all have our mistakes and our shortcomings. Sure, the businessman has to be professional in his position and carry himself appropriately.
I have seen a lot of people come in and out of the station [Smith’s Service and Tire], bums, blue collar folk, white collar folk, drug addicts, normal Joes and famous folk.
The sad thing is that all of a sudden, this place is so quiet and cold. All because of somebody that didn’t feel treated fairly.