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My grandfather would often share stories of his time overseas during WWII.  He was an Army Air Corps Engineer.   He passed this summer and I was reminded of his story about arriving back in the United States after returning from his service in the middle east and northern Africa.  It was nighttime and his ship was entering New York Harbor.  He looked out across the water and there was the Statue of Liberty, torch aglow.  He looked up and said, "You can turn out the light sister.  Old Freddie's home." 

posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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I'm from the midwest and one thing I think people from the back east are forgetting that we have out here that we don't have back east...topography. It definitely comes into play when travleing state wide. And lets face it, the east is alot more crowded, so more people, more resources (not just snow clearing equipment, but tow-trucks). Also, using salt can very corrosive to vehicles, whereas the liquid de-icer is not.

posted 4 years, 6 months ago
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Responsible media please. Brownlow didn't "steal" any votes. His supporters voted for him. He earned those votes. I didn't vote for him, but I find it insulting that the media continues to brand 3rd party candidates as vote stealers and spoilers.

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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I'm all for people with slighter incomes getting help with buying a home. But after I went through a non-profit, how-to-buy-a-house seminar, I learned I made a little bit too much money. A little bit too much in that I would not qualify for their program. Qualifiers get to forego mortgage insurance and are only required to put down a very minimal down payment. Now the seminar was great and I would defintely reccomend it too anyone buying a house. But where's the balance? Am I being punished for having great credit, no debt, and making a little too much money?

posted 4 years, 11 months ago
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Management should begin at the domestic level. Domestic pet populations that are left unchecked greatly affect our native wildlife. I have to remind people at parks I visit (local and national) that it is not helpful or healthy to feed the local wildlife. If your pet must roam, please outfit it with a bell. Picking up our trash, keeping clean yards and neighborhoods will limit unwanted human/wildlife confrontations. I work with a desert species that is constantly threatened by birds and wild dogs that are often attected to its habitat because of human trash and dumping. Pick up your trash, spay and neuter your pets, keep your pets in your yard, do not feed wildlife (if you feed birds, only bird food please), do not dump your unwanted pets back "into the wild"--they may upset the local populations and carry disease that may kill local species.

posted 5 years ago
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