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Today's Opinions

  • GUEST COLUMN: Cutting Saturday delivery no answer to USPS dilemma

    To ensure its future the United States Postal Service (USPS) must do more than seek short-term fixes to its long-term financial problems. Year after year, the United States Postal Service continues to raise postal rates to cover its growing expenses without adequately addressing its significant underlying organizational and operational issues. Instead it is offering to cut service by eliminating Saturday mail delivery.

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  • COLUMN: Introducing and adding solid waste goals

    We have now completed our state-managed waste tire amnesty program of 2011. It started on a wet note, but, although windy, Friday and Saturday were much better than they could have been. I do not have a final tally, but Martin Tire Service hauled several trailer loads to the shredder.
    We now have a four-year wait until our name comes up again, so please make a note to dispose of any scrap tires you may accumulate in a proper manner. It seems that Simpson Creek will have to be added to Salt River on our list of waste tire contaminated streams in Spencer County.

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  • COLUMN: Halloween leads us toward family tradition

    Halloween isn’t typically thought of as a holiday steeped in family tradition – at least not for my family.
    Sure, I went trick-or-treating as a child and dressed up in my fair share of costumes, but I can’t put my finger on anything I would count as a tradition.
    However, this year, just a few days before Halloween, I find myself thinking about family quite a bit.
    Halloween is a surefire sign that it’s fall and with fall comes my favorite holiday – my birthday, of course – followed by Thanksgiving and then Christmas.

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  • COLUMN: Recycle aluminum and save energy

    As you read this, the Waste Tire Amnesty is history for four years, the Fall Rumpke Curbside Pickup is finished, and we have our non-profit groups lined up to collect the roadside litter for our Fall Litter Abatement Program.
    If you missed the Waste Tire Amnesty, please call me and tell me why, so I can make the necessary adjustments in our method of announcing events to the public at large. If, for some reason, you missed the curbside junk pickup notices, call me and tell me what could be done that would catch your attention.

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  • LETTER: Old South homeowners oppose ‘greed,’ not ‘those who need a hand up’

    As a homeowner in Old South Plantation and a newcomer to Taylorsville, I’d like to respond to Tracy DeVore’s letter to the editor in the Oct. 12 edition, defending her home in Taylorsville Place.
    First, may I say how very sorry I am that she did not attend the meeting she referenced in her letter. Excerpts from a news article many times are not enough information to make wise judgments.

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  • GUEST COLUMN: Celebrate Red Ribbon Week

    One day I was wearing my red ribbon lapel pin and a close friend of 15 years asked about its meaning. I said it was in support of Red Ribbon Week. When she asked me what Red Ribbon Week was, I was taken aback.

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  • COLUMN: Fall solid waste efforts

    We are seeing the weeks fly by at an alarming rate. Christmas will soon be here. We have an overload of planning we must do now to make it work in the near future.

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  • LETTER: Thanks to local law enforcement

    I would like to take this opportunity to thank our local law enforcement for the service and commitment they continue to invest into our community. While their time and resources may be limited, they work night and day to serve and protect the citizens within Spencer County.

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