Area headlines(on the area news services--all about Middietown)include:

 

CITY WORKER KILLED--TWO FIREMEN INJURED

PUPPY ABUSER GIVEN JAIL TIME

LLAMA KILLERS TO BE TRIED AS ADULTS

14YO ROBBER/RAPIST PLEADS NOT GUILTY

 

First of all---deepest sympathy for the family of the city worker, and best hopes for the injured firemen.

What exactly is in our sewers? On my way to one of my business locations this morning, I pulled over to let the initial fire crews pass by. I looked to see who was in the truck--were these the firemen that were injured?

 

As for the last three stories--my goodness. What have we become?

Is life so meaningless any more, especially in the young minds?

I spent the morning in city municipal court.

The stories above are just the tip of the local iceberg.

They are hardly isolated incidents.

I can't imagine the depession/frustration that Judge Wall must feel after a day like today.

And I have sat through worse days down there.

 

THIS is the picture of ourselves that we are sending to our neighboring communities.

THIS is truely what our city has become.

THIS simply cannot continue.

As W. C. Fields (or was it Groucho Marx?) once said: "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have ME for a member!"   

I have to agree that the term "best" is, indeed, relative when speaking of candidates of EITHER party in the recent past.

 

However, all that I can do is the best that I can do.  That is why I decided to pursue this very local office to try to improve the quality of candidates offered to voters in county elections for the next few years.