ESI Staff
Sales tax collections up
City Finance Director Lonnie Clark presented new charts and graphs prepared by Cheryl King at the August 27 council meeting, which showed 2013-2018 financial...
Council leftovers
Final items discussed at city council on August 27 included:
Mayor Butch Berry announced there were vacancies on the Planning, Cemetery, Hospital and City...
Busy season for first responders
Reports given at the August 21 Western Carroll County Ambulance District Board of Commissioners meeting indicated a very busy summer for first responders and...
Constables on Patrol
August 20
12:25 p.m. – Concerned neighbor asked for a constable to check on possible activity in a vacant house. The owner’s daughter was staying...
Affordability of eating healthily
My wife dug up a small basketful of scrawny carrots the other day, preparing that garden bed to plant garlic. Our tomato plants are...
A year that will live in infamy?
Those of us who understand the existential threat posed by climate change have been waiting for the “Pearl Harbor moment” that galvanizes people and...
Caring for Life
Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just...
Memories inspired by Aretha
Editor,
I’m also a native of Detroit, the one we both grew up in, the one that doesn’t exist anymore. As five years her senior,...
Himself, at last
Editor,
Here, today, in Trump’s response to McCain’s death, we see how total shallowness and complete vanity can conjoin in one vicious buffoon to alienate...
Abuse of power is the issue
Editor,
I recognize many locals hope for Trump’s impeachment, however the extremely serious issues we face – culturally and nationally – will not be solved...