Why are the tree-trimming people allowed to throw tree limbs into creeks and cause flooding?

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Eric Workman, who was killed in the line of duty. I sincerely hope a baseball scholarship will be established at WVSU, where he was a star player.

So you think it is OK for big companies to lock out workers for whatever reason they choose? And the workers have no alternative to it but starve to death until they make them come back without a fair contract? What is fair about that?

I agree we have a tough economy, and you are lucky to have a job, but that is still no excuse for a business to pay less than a living wage with benefits. They are still making the big bucks and shouldn't take advantage of their employees.

Nearly 1 in 3 people aged 25 to 34 is living with their parents, gas is $4 a gallon, the debt is $16 trillion, and there are 23 million people underemployed or unemployed. The DNC will surely be like putting lipstick on the proverbial pig.

To the person who thinks there is no life after death, wait till you take your very last breath. You will wake up in a very hot place.

The city of Charleston should patrol the Daniel Boone Park more during the day. You'd be surprised what you might find, especially in the bathrooms.

People had better start paying attention to climate change. We must begin now to replace every tree cut down by planting another one.

I watched the Republican National Convention last week, and there were no Bushes, Cheneys, Rumsfelds and Palins. Also, what happened to the slogan "Drill, baby, drill"?

If Barack Obama didn't like the Bush tax cuts, why didn't he get rid of them in his first two years in office when he had the Congress and the Senate in his favor? They must have been helping him somewhere or he wouldn't have hung on to them.

It is not only insulting but stupid for some Republicans to chastise our president for not getting anything done when it was they, in Congress, that kept him from anything he tried to do.

I just came from a Hurricane City Council meeting, and that is the biggest joke I've ever seen. They all came out of the back already prepared with what they are going to do from their secret headquarters back there.

People are influenced by teachers and many people we come in contact with. Government isn't one of them. Did anyone catch that Michelle Obama said in her speech that we belong to the government, not the other way around like it's supposed to be?

Which side of the fence are you on? If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns to be outlawed.

I still think Clinton was one of the best presidents we've ever had.

When is the new mayor of Nitro going to clean up the city? Promises are all we get.

A girl was fondled on a school bus? Why did another bus driver have to hear about it in the bay area and go and get the video for something to be done about it? Shame on the school board for trying to hide it.

The Charleston city trash bags aren't really free because we pay for them. Don't give out any extra ones because they are just given away to people who don't live in Charleston.

I ask you, dear God, in Jesus' name, to please bring the meth dealers up Wolf Pen and on the side roads to justice. They are destroying so many young lives and using their daughters to bring in young peddlers for them.

They keep fixing up the riverfront but won't pave Washington Street. It is a waste.

The Republicans and Democrats in Congress cannot, by law, bring our country to bankruptcy. It is their responsibility to fund our national budget. You cannot just cut your expenses to balance a budget, but you must also pay down our debt through taxes.

We need to get Bill Clinton back in office. Remember how good gas and food prices were? We had a surplus of money. Everything was good back then.

No matter how many tax cuts you give the top 1 percent, no one, repeat, absolutely no one, can or should force them to create more jobs. I say in order to encourage them to create jobs, have the jobs created first and then allow them tax breaks for job creation. No jobs, no tax cuts for you! That indeed is the American way.

In Elkview, gas is $3.99 a gallon, and in Clendenin, it is $3.89. What is going on besides gouging?

The school board is covering up what happened to that little girl on the school bus. Fire the superintendent and transportation director for not keeping that child safe on the bus.