Today’s news: Pick one from Column A, two from column B …
Here’s a few links via the Journal Star:
- Phil Luciano shares a quandry many will face on Feb. 5: Which party ballot should he pick up for the primary election? Lots of people want to vote for either Clinton or Obama for the Democratic presidential race, but want to chose from among John Morris, Jim McConoughey and Aaron Schock in the Republican race for Congress. I have no such dilemma. I’m not voting. In the primary, at least. I’m not a member of ANY political party, so I won’t be picking any party’s nominees.
- Good heavens! Who would have predicted that bars that enforce the smoking ban are losing business to those who do not? Certainly in the interest of fairness, we must now have strict enforcement.
- Maybe teens would vote by texting via cell phones? Just a thought …
- I really don’t know what all the consternation is about the request to put up a gate to keep the riff-raff out of the Coves of Charter Oak subdivision. The city had no trouble blocking off streets in the West Bluff to keep traffic from actually, you know, DRIVING ON ROADS BUILT AND SUPPORTED BY MY TAX DOLLARS. But when the riff-raff being kept off the streets is a higher class of riff-raff, then it’s insulting and cannot be allowed. The correct vote would be to deny the gate AND remove the barricades that keep me from using road in the West Bluff to get from point A to point B.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
