SHORT TAKES: Sunday a glorious winter day
Winter is still with us, and it looks like it will keep punching for a while longer.
But if we gotta have winter, let it be like yesterday. The sun was shining, the snow was beautiful, the temperature was moderate, a day perfect for ice fishing and the kids were sledding at Tower Mountain.
At this time of year, it doesn’t get any better than that.
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Hats off to Daily News letter writer Pastor Alan Flowers of Spencer Mills Church in Gowen for alerting our readers to the ridiculously contradictory policy of government subsidizing “green vehicles” on one hand, and then at another level considering “punishing” those vehicle owners with a fee because they’re not paying enough fuel tax.
This knee-jerk approach to levying citizen fees highlights the lack of coordinated, common-sense tax policies at multiple levels of government. This arises from a growing concern for their ability to fund current operations along with long term liabilities.
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Mark this one on your calendar: 2013 Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. It’s offered this Friday and Saturday night (March 1 and 2) at the Greenville Area Community Center.
Have a great dinner and see rollicking comedy theater for $20 complete; or theater only for $15. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and the show at 7:30 p.m. Either way you can also buy a pie and be a really big spender.
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The current issue of Time Magazine contains a special report titled “Bitter Pill — Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us” This extensive report on the business of American medicine will surely tell you more than you want to know — but much of what you need to know — about the pricing and profits of today’s medical industry and what it can do to you and your loved ones.
Ignore this report at your own financial peril.
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Its disappointing to see the DN editorial board endorse the comparison of apples and oranges as occured in your hearty endorsement of Pastor Mills recent letter. I had dismissed the letter as either the writer’s misunderstanding or election to ignore the facts, but for the DN editorial board to endorse this is inexcusable. Fact: the feds do subsudize “green” vehicles. Fact: the Governor has proposed higher vehicle registration fees to pay for road repairs. Not a fact: that the previous two facts are somehow contradictory or, to use your words, knee-jerk. Do not green vehicles use the same roads as non-green vehicles? Are green vehicle owners being asked to pay higher vehicle registration fees while non-green vehicle owners are not? No to both. Is the Daily News really taking the position that green vehicle owners should not have to pay for road maintenance and that burden should be placed largely on owners of non-green vehicles? Sure sounds like that’s your position. Argue about whether or not the feds should subsidize green vehicles. Argue about whether or not higher vehicle registration fees are an appropriate way to fund road repair. While you are at it, ask why, if the Republican legislators’ position is that funding can be found in “efficiencies” (their own knee-jerk reaction to the proposal) why haven’t they been doing their job before this and already found those efficiencies, since funding for road repairs has been a long-standing problem. Argue about any or all of these things, but argue the facts, not some gibberish.