| Recent Letters to the Editor |
| Respect and honor are the issues |
| By Jim Joling | Published Thursday, September 9, 2010 |
| Mr. Hughes continues to amaze and amuse me. Let's set the record straight about opposition to the, yes Ken, Mosque and Muslim Cultural Center proposed a few blocks from what most Americans believe to be a burial ground for many of the 3,000 innocent people murdered in the name of Allah. |
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| Give raises to deserving |
| By Bonnie Neal | Published Thursday, September 9, 2010 |
| Interesting scene at Newark City Hall Friday. The mayor and two city council members held a meeting with another individual talking about city business. |
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| Questioning Jefferson's Christianity |
| By Joshua Campbell | Published Sunday, September 5, 2010 |
| Robert, thank you for sharing the link to the website referring to Thomas Jefferson's letters. I have, however, been forced to form an opinion contrary to your own. |
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| Times are changing in Boyd |
| By Ethel Martinez | Published Sunday, September 5, 2010 |
| This morning, I walked around my block in Boyd. All was quiet. It was still cool at 9:15 a.m., 85 degrees. |
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| Commissioner doing poor job |
| By Jason Johnson | Published Sunday, September 5, 2010 |
| Just an FYI for Wise county residents: if you drive the dirt roads in Slidell, please be careful. Thanks to the many 18 wheelers traveling our dirt roads and the poor job done by our precinct commissioner, they are a mess full of pot holes. |
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| Thanks for quick response |
| By James F. Wood | Published Sunday, September 5, 2010 |
| I want to personally thank each of the following fire departments for helping save our service building at James Wood Motors when it caught fire Monday, Aug. 23 - Decatur, Bridgeport, Rhome and East Wise. |
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| All religions welcome in U.S. |
| By Ken Hughes | Published Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
| Watching the great, self-righteous, holy hullabaloo about the proposed mosque at ground zero that is neither a mosque nor at ground zero, I am reminded of the words of Jean-Francois Revel: "A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence." |
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| Liberals cause for demise |
| By Robert Taylor | Published Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
| In response to the letter from Mr. Hughes: Your rant was about immigrants and the true, God-fearing Americans who understand what these illegals are doing to this country, who oppose the invasion of our country from Mexico. Nobody is against legal immigration. It's the illegals that we are opposed to. Why can't you liberals understand this? |
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| Fancy signs are a waste |
| By Tad Billmire | Published Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
| One thing most Americans would agree on, is that we are all tired of government waste. Waste, is exactly what I thought when I read in the Messenger about Decatur ISD spending $100,000 on fancy electronic signs for each campus. |
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| A stranger's kindness touched family |
| By Paul Walmsley | Published Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
| I'd like to offer a very heartfelt thank you to the anonymous person who picked up my family's dinner tab at Chili's in Decatur last Friday night. |
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| Thanks for help after the accident |
| By Walter, Cindy and Ali Wood | Published Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
| We would like to thank the strangers and passersby as well as the paramedics and law enforcement who rendered aide to Walter at the scene of the head-on collision at the U.S. 81/287 and U.S. 380 off ramp. |
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| Nation descended from immigrants |
| By Ken Hughes | Published Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| Bigotry shows its ugly face in many disgusting and revolting forms. Beyond the racial context which, in view of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, is troubling enough in its own right, and with which the word is normally associated in America, there's ethnic, sexual, religious and socioeconomic bigotry still being peddled in America into the 21 century. |
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| Research Jefferson's beliefs |
| By Robert Cox | Published Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| Every time a letter is written or someone makes a comment about America being a Christian nation, the anti-Christian faction always resorts to Thomas Jefferson, the writer of the Constitution, as an anti-Christian founder who wanted nothing to do with Christianity. |
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| Thanks for the help |
| By DHS Senior Class Officers | Published Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| The DHS Class of 2011 would like to thank all of the Decatur High School teachers, administrators and parents for all their hard work toward our senior retreat. |
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| Don't dump dogs |
| By Susan Jones | Published Sunday, August 22, 2010 |
| To the people who dropped off a beautiful black and white dog north of Alvord on County Road 2898: he is still waiting for you to return. |
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| Legalize marijuana |
| By Craig Keen | Published Sunday, August 22, 2010 |
| Wow, our tax dollars at work. |
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| Delay posting photos |
| By Terry Berube | Published Sunday, August 22, 2010 |
| The Messenger withholds the name of fatal accident victims until family can be notified. Does it really make sense to release photos of the accident and names of other people in the vehicle before the family is notified? |
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| Withhold photos with names |
| By Brenda Miner | Published Sunday, August 22, 2010 |
| I understand that it is a newspaper's job to update the community on happenings around our county. However, I feel as though the Messenger does not always use the best judgment when it comes to their breaking news stories. |
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| Council should re-examine change |
| By Bonnie Neal | Published Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| It was discovered this past week that several of the past tape recordings of the Newark City Council meetings do not have anything on them. This after several months of recordings that were fine, but then there was the issue of the document requests. Odd. |
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| Governor wrong to offer land |
| By Robert Cox | Published Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| "Gov. offers land for mosque if it moves" |
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| Blue befriended community |
| By Irene Wilson | Published Sunday, August 15, 2010 |
| The story has been told before, but I need to tell it again and tell you the ending. The rest of the story ended about a month ago. |
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| Self-absorption is liberal conditioning |
| By Mickey Doyle | Published Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| The disappointment felt by the writer, whose mother was in obvious distress over the loss of her pet, has to look at the bigger picture. |
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| Questions still loom |
| By Katrina Ellis | Published Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| The city of Newark held a budget meeting this past Thursday night. We were allowed to view actual figures in black and white of our city's finances vs. the budget (which is defined as estimate of costs, revenues and resources over a specified period.) |
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| RISING WATER - Storms dumped several inches of rain across Wise County yesterday and overnight. Some residents reported seeing cloud rotation at times yesterday afternoon, and the Decatur storm sirens were sounded around 4:30 p.m. There were no reports of major damage. Several minor accidents were reported during the storm, including a jackknifed 18-wheeler on U.S. 81/287 near Business 81/287 south of Alvord. There were no reports of injuries. As the rain continued to fall overnight, water rose over many roads, leaving several motorists stranded as they tried to make their way to work this morning. Reports included one foot of water over the roadway at Texas 114 and Farm Road 718 in Aurora. Several cars also stalled on U.S. 81/287 north of Decatur. A flash flood watch remains in effect for Wise and Denton counties until 8:15 a.m. A flash flood warning remains in effect through tomorrow morning. Rainfall amounts include 6 inches in Slidell, 5.78 in Decatur, 4.5 in Aurora and Runaway Bay, 3.05 in Alvord and 2 in Bridgeport. The rain is expected to continue throughout the day. |
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| Phil Ryan was stabbed by a suspect in 1986 and keeps the boot he was wearing and butcher knife as a reminder to never let down his guard. |
| Photo by Joe Duty |
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