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On the article Gun Control Resolution Approved By Board of Ed
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On the article Gun Control Resolution Approved By Board of Ed
Karen
4:04 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
If you don't think gun control legislation has any relevance to our schools and the safety of our children, then I respectfully refer you to Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary School. After the tragedy at Sandy Hook, I put my young children on their school bus and watched as they went off to elementary school. I felt like I was sending them off to war. No one should ever feel that way. While it may not be much, I applaud the Board for taking this action and expressing its support for reasonable gun control legislation. It's a start and we have to start somewhere.
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On the article Mayor: Warren Has Been 'Extremely Active' After Sandy
Karen
9:31 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
ReplyWe really need new leadership in this town. It's the same people, year after year, and enough is enough. They talk a good game, but I look at results and their results stink. I know that they can't control Mother Nature, but they can take affirmative action before a storm to mitigate the anticipated damage (i.e. an active town tree pruning program) and they can be more effective after such a storm (i.e. clearing the roadways quicker and obtaining the attention of the utilities).
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On the article Outages Drop as JCP&L Adds More Manpower
Karen
9:29 am on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
ReplyI live in Warren and to be honest, I'm more angry with the leadership of this town than JCP & L. In their quest to keep taxes down in my Republican bastion, they refused to spend money to prune back the trees along the main roads and power lines after the past two years of storms and significant power outages. The amount of trees into power lines this time around was simply outrageous and could have been mitigated by spending a little money over the past year. I don't know about you, but after a week of no power, I think I could live with my taxes being raised 1% if it would mean avoiding this fiasco in the future.
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On the article Township to Pick-up Storm Damaged Tree Branches
Karen
6:35 pm on Tuesday, November 8, 2011
ReplyThey should have notified the community sooner about this, as it would have saved a lot of people a lot of money.
Karen
11:05 am on Sunday, January 27, 2013
Sandy Hook had a school security system that was in place with locked doors and Adam Lanza still blew his way through the front entry with an automatic weapon. That same kind of school security system is at my children's school. Unless you are prepared to cover the school with bulletproof glass and steel doors and make it a fortress, there is no way to fully prevent such a violent entry into a school. In the end, our children have the right to attend school in peace. Again, I applaud the Board for taking this action because it's one more sign to me that common sense may finally be re-emerging in the gun control debate in this country. I only wish that it didn't have to come at the expense of 6 and 7 year olds who lost their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.