Today's Opinions

Where in the world is the Kmart money? It is a question that commissioners and voters alike should be asking.

When the county acquired $700,000 in proceeds from the sale of the building commissioners earmarked the money for industrial development, vowing only to use it when a prime piece of industrial property came along.

Now nearly two years and what seems like a zillion debates later the same group has managed to spend nearly every penny.

Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson once said, “God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children. Someone has said that an ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating apples and never looking up to see where they come from.”

This week’s story comes from something that caught my eye as I was checking my email.

There’s always been something special about Fourth of July. I’ve loved it ever since I was a child. In fact, the kid in me never really grew up.

One Fourth of July, when I was 8- years- old, my sisters and our cousins would always go to our grandparents’ house.

We’d roast weenies and marshmallows, light sparklers, pop the champagne bottles that would shoot out confetti and streamers, and the infamous popping “dinky-do’s” that you’d throw on the ground. After that, the real celebration would start.