ESI Staff
Nuts and bolts of improving an improvement district
District Manager Lawrence Blood told HISID commissioners last Wednesday that Stateline Drive had significant problems and needed a four-inch overlay from Venus Ave. to...
City finances ‘looking good’
Mayor Butch Berry told city council on Monday that 2018 is the first time he remembered city finances beginning the year in the black....
HDC back to full strength
New commissioners Judy Holden and John Nuckolls faced an easy agenda for their first Historic District Commission meeting Feb. 21 as six commissioners wasted...
The threat to world peace
Donald Trump made me think about world peace. He is preparing for nuclear war against North Korea. Trump asked his generals, “Why can’t I...
Social order has crumpled
Editor,
In 1775, the rifles the farmers brought with them were the weapons that created the state. That is why the government, in the 2nd Amendment,...
What will stop such things?
Editor,
The shooting in Parkland instantly brought cries for “common sense gun control” and the students are ready to eviscerate the 2nd Amendment in response....
What’s the biggest worry?
Editor,
The NRA owns our government, so we will never have sensible gun laws.
Health insurance companies own our politicians, so we will never have universal...
Wall building response
Editor,
Laura L Coker , what makes you think that the great drought, flood or other calamities won’t start here, north of the border? For what...
Things held in high esteem
Editor,
When the Trumpites consider cutting food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, refuse to do anything about assault rifles and guns available to disturbed people, want...
The Pursuit of Happiness
I have been feeling a bit like John Cheever’s country husband this week, full of melancholy, out of sorts due to the rain, and...