Opinion

I read Representative Montell's legislative report in the Sentinel News. I noticed that Representative Montell left out his voting record on HB 55: booster seat legislation.

I have voted as a Republican for nearly 20 years and I have believed that Republicans have always stood for family values. Booster seat legislation is the ultimate in protecting family values.

Many of this county's citizens spent weeks amending the conditional use regulations for agriculture. In January, the Board of Adjustments and Appeals threw out these rules in favor of the Louisville Cemetery. It is a slap in the face of our citizens.

In February, Chuck Hickman rules against Triple S Planning and Zoning in favor of New Estates Farms, a development planned on the Shelby/Jefferson county line, a decision overly biased toward Jefferson County's development interests.

Your recent article on the repeal of the sin tax was dead on; giving the tax already collected back to the merchants is nothing more than a windfall for them.

It is my understanding that merchants raise the price of an item to cover a tax. Therefore, what they paid to the Revenue Cabinet was NOT out of their pocket. There is no way they can return it to the customers that actually paid it (I being one).

Just another cemetery. Doesn't affect me. Wanna bet!

It does affect you! It affects your property value, your rural environment, and your Shelby County lifestyle. And here's why everyone in Shelby County should be concerned.

A worker told me recently that the road department is cutting down a very large tree about half-mile mile back on the left from U. S. 60 on Webb Road traveling North.

I'd love think there is a valid reason for this lovely old tree to come down. It's not dead, I know. I pick up trash on Webb Road most days and when the summer temperatures reach into the 90s that tree provides the only shade I have for about half a mile. Welcome relief, I can tell you. I have come to think of that tree as a friend and it's sad to think it may be cut down.

Connie Kuhn,

I haven't watched the TV show but I've seen the advertisements where a man appears to be hooked up to a lie detector machine and a game show host is asking him if he could cheat on his wife and no one would ever know, would he do it?

Problem is, his wife and a rather large TV audience are all watching to see what his answer will be.

Talk about being in the hotseat.

I imagine most men would rather endure eating a plate of worms or at least swimming in less shark-infested waters.

On the evening of January 3t, the Triple S Board of Adjustments and Appeals turned my world into shambles. By a majority vote, the Board approved a Conditional Use Permit that will allow the for-profit Louisville Cemetery Association to put a nearly forty acre cemetery around two sides of my seven acre farm and my house. It will engulf me!

For those of you who have been in withdrawal after the Sentinel-News message boards came down a few months ago, good news - they're back.

Starting this week, readers will be able to post comments at the bottom of news stories on the Sentinel-News' website, www.sentinelnews.com.

There are a few changes from the way the message boards were set up in the past.

First, you have to register an email address to post comments. Nothing complicated or threatening. We do not want to know your bank account number or Social Security number. Just an email address will do.

Food is our nation's best buy, a better buy than health care and about one-half the cost of housing.

According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, by the middle of February, the average American has earned enough to pay their food bill for the year. It takes only 10.9 percent of your disposable income to get the best, most affordable, safest, abundant supply of food in the world. The United Kingdom gets close at 11.2 percent, France at 18 percent, all the way up to the Sudan at 60.5 percent. Imagine having to spend half of your paycheck for food.