July 29, 2010
Readers' voice: July 30, 2010
- To the caller who wanted to know who to contact about a neighbor spraying chemicals into their yard: Keep your weeds and growth off our side of the fence and you won't have that problem.
- The St. Albans police officer that beat the man in the face with a flashlight is not fit to be an officer of the law. He cannot handle the power and authority it takes to be an officer.
- Since the rules were changed by our legislators for Gov. Manchin and Congresswoman Capito, does this mean that a state worker can now run for public office and still maintain his job?
- Gov. Joe Manchin, are you planning to take your party tent to Washington, D.C.?
- Nothing more completely defines the practice of Republicans of taking an element of truth and twisting and perverting it to mean something it does not, all for political gain, than does the current situation concerning Shirley Sherrod.
- I am a customer of the West Virginia American Water company, and I have a leak. I called, but no one came. Who do I have to call to get my leak fixed?
- You go, Ken Hechler. Show them who their daddy is.
- Nitro has a beautiful flag memorial for veterans; I drive by there every day. For the last two weeks a man with white hair has been out there working in the sun and rain. He is obviously a caring man, but I think we need more people like him.
- Okay, when are all the investigative reporters going to get the real story from Coach Huggins of how he broke his ribs falling into a coffee table in a Las Vegas hotel room? The official story has been sanitized. It reminds us of the White House's official story in January 2002 when Bush appeared with a big shiner, claiming to fall into a coffee table while watching football on TV.
- I thought my Frontier Internet bill was higher, too, but then I realized they took over in the middle of a billing cycle, so my bill had a few extra days of the previous month added to it.
- John David's column on Deepwater Mountain Road is reminiscent of the piece he did a few years back on the great Fayette County tomato raid. Keep dreaming, John.
- The people who voted for Obama must have been mesmerized by him as he was giving speeches. He said over and over when he was running for president that he wanted to fundamentally change the United States. How do you like it now that you are waking up and finding out exactly what he meant?
- Since an apparently legal part of Arizona's immigration law makes hiring illegal immigrants a crime, who's going to pick Arizona's fruit and vegetables? Not any American. Get ready for the price of fruit and vegetables to go up.
- At long last a piece of canvas art in Charleston that can truly be appreciated. The white canvas that billows and flows over the Kanawha River at Fort Hill to downtown on the Fort Hill bridge far excels the canvas art on the levee.
- Like the venter who is concerned that Earl Ray Tomblin could be appointed governor for the new few years, I, too, am concerned about that. But if Manchin is elected to Byrd's seat, why can't we have a special election to get the governor we want to replace him?
- I'm having difficulty getting child support money from the West Virginia Bureau of Child of Enforcement, and I would like this problem resolved. I feel something should be done to correct the distribution issues within this system. Is anyone else having problems getting their child support?
- Why am I driving down a U.S. highway doing 15 miles per hour instead of 50, which is the speed limit? Because I'm following a Department of Highways backhoe being driven in front of me. It's not on a trailer; it is being driven. Why? I'll tell you why, because I'm in West Virginia, the most backward state in the world.
- I think the vent readers would like a list of school employee deadbeats who won't pay for their school lunches. If Pete Thaw can't collect lunch money, is he really qualified?
- I, too, wish Dave Hickman would write about something other than WVU football. For years I have watched the football team time after time break our hearts. I've never seen a football team that are bigger choke artists than WVU.
- The only thing that big business is being condemned for is the fact that they don't' want to pay a living wage with benefits. They want to keep all the profit and send everything offshore. How can this economy ever recover under these circumstances?
- I just wondered with unemployment compensation being extended how much longer it is going to take for people to get their benefits. Some are several weeks behind.
- To the caller who wanted to know who to contact about a neighbor spraying chemicals into their yard: Keep your weeds and growth off our side of the fence and you won't have that problem.
- The St. Albans police officer that beat the man in the face with a flashlight is not fit to be an officer of the law. He cannot handle the power and authority it takes to be an officer.
- Since the rules were changed by our legislators for Gov. Manchin and Congresswoman Capito, does this mean that a state worker can now run for public office and still maintain his job?
- Gov. Joe Manchin, are you planning to take your party tent to Washington, D.C.?
- Nothing more completely defines the practice of Republicans of taking an element of truth and twisting and perverting it to mean something it does not, all for political gain, than does the current situation concerning Shirley Sherrod.
- I am a customer of the West Virginia American Water company, and I have a leak. I called, but no one came. Who do I have to call to get my leak fixed?
- You go, Ken Hechler. Show them who their daddy is.
- Nitro has a beautiful flag memorial for veterans; I drive by there every day. For the last two weeks a man with white hair has been out there working in the sun and rain. He is obviously a caring man, but I think we need more people like him.
- Okay, when are all the investigative reporters going to get the real story from Coach Huggins of how he broke his ribs falling into a coffee table in a Las Vegas hotel room? The official story has been sanitized. It reminds us of the White House's official story in January 2002 when Bush appeared with a big shiner, claiming to fall into a coffee table while watching football on TV.
- I thought my Frontier Internet bill was higher, too, but then I realized they took over in the middle of a billing cycle, so my bill had a few extra days of the previous month added to it.
- John David's column on Deepwater Mountain Road is reminiscent of the piece he did a few years back on the great Fayette County tomato raid. Keep dreaming, John.
- The people who voted for Obama must have been mesmerized by him as he was giving speeches. He said over and over when he was running for president that he wanted to fundamentally change the United States. How do you like it now that you are waking up and finding out exactly what he meant?
- Since an apparently legal part of Arizona's immigration law makes hiring illegal immigrants a crime, who's going to pick Arizona's fruit and vegetables? Not any American. Get ready for the price of fruit and vegetables to go up.
- At long last a piece of canvas art in Charleston that can truly be appreciated. The white canvas that billows and flows over the Kanawha River at Fort Hill to downtown on the Fort Hill bridge far excels the canvas art on the levee.
- Like the venter who is concerned that Earl Ray Tomblin could be appointed governor for the new few years, I, too, am concerned about that. But if Manchin is elected to Byrd's seat, why can't we have a special election to get the governor we want to replace him?
- I'm having difficulty getting child support money from the West Virginia Bureau of Child of Enforcement, and I would like this problem resolved. I feel something should be done to correct the distribution issues within this system. Is anyone else having problems getting their child support?
- Why am I driving down a U.S. highway doing 15 miles per hour instead of 50, which is the speed limit? Because I'm following a Department of Highways backhoe being driven in front of me. It's not on a trailer; it is being driven. Why? I'll tell you why, because I'm in West Virginia, the most backward state in the world.
- I think the vent readers would like a list of school employee deadbeats who won't pay for their school lunches. If Pete Thaw can't collect lunch money, is he really qualified?
- I, too, wish Dave Hickman would write about something other than WVU football. For years I have watched the football team time after time break our hearts. I've never seen a football team that are bigger choke artists than WVU.
- The only thing that big business is being condemned for is the fact that they don't' want to pay a living wage with benefits. They want to keep all the profit and send everything offshore. How can this economy ever recover under these circumstances?
- I just wondered with unemployment compensation being extended how much longer it is going to take for people to get their benefits. Some are several weeks behind.
