MauryTHINKS

An opinion is a person’s ideas and thoughts towards something. It is an assessment, judgment or evaluation of something. An opinion is not a fact, because opinions are either not falsifiable, or the opinion has not been proven or verified. It is also worth noting that “Opinion” is a song by Kurt Cobain, lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band, Nirvana. It is survived by only one known version: a solo acoustic rendition performed live on an Olympia, Washington college radio show on September 25, 1990.

  As I sit awake and wondering how the situation got as bad as it has, I have rediscovered a wonderful lone thought on the distant horizon. I like many of you, am SICK of the way things are handled in and around the county of Maury. How did it get this far? Why, in [...]

I am writing this letter to express my appreciation to The Daily Herald for investigating and writing the article: “State Trooper alleges race discrimination” (June 29).
I have lived in this county long enough to know that the majority of its citizens are not proud of the racial confrontations of the past and would like to [...]

I have long said that we men really are not much. Women are unquestionably the superior gender. We certainly would not be at war now in Iraq if women were in charge.
My son, who is embarking on that stage of his life where he is thinking about a wife, recently asked me a few questions [...]

Prior to becoming vice president for Gerald Ford, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller said “I don’t want to be vice president of anything.” When he became Vice President John Adams said “the people have found it necessary for me to hold the most useless position ever created.”
So is the vice president important. At [...]

Note: Originally published in the Columbia Daily Herald, reprinted by permission
As a former reporter and news editor for The Daily Herald, I was deeply dismayed to see the factual and contextual errors in the story “Citizens Fight Health Facility.”
Your writers, D. Frank Smith and John Henson, did not do the most basic fact-checking in preparing [...]

Originally Published in the Columbia Daily Herald, Reprinted by permission
Since this debate started regarding Centerstone’s planned placement of a treatment facility for mentally ill persons in Rolling Fields, the citizens that have raised concerns have been called bigoted, racist, mean-spirited and now, on the opinion page of this newspaper, acting in a manner inconsistent with [...]

Sometimes things must be allowed to go woefully wrong before they can go right, as is the case with many of our public schools today.
As with every important endeavor that we embark upon, it is our philosophy that is paramount. The idea of government-run schools began with the notion of educating the masses just enough [...]

It’s that time of year again. The magical time when budgets are coming into full bloom and our local politicians are debating which programs to cut and underfund. When city and county officials have to crunch numbers and figure out whether they can buy that brand new police car or to fund an inner [...]

Over the past five months we have watched and listened as the plethora of presidential candidates “debated” to win the favor of the Democratic and Republican faithful in the state primaries and caucuses.
Nearly 35 million “Democrats” and 20 million “Republicans have spoken and the majority of elected and super delegates have presume ably made their [...]

I have been following articles in The Daily Herald regarding the situation with the animal shelter and am compelled to respond after reading Glen Hasse’s statements in today’s (June 11) paper. Mr. Hasse states that he was shocked to find out that the shelter was over budget and found out only last week. He also [...]

Eighteen months ago, with Hillary leading Obama by a wide margin and probably already having commissioned the initial design etching of her inaugural pantsuit, I wrote a column titled: “Hillary will be sunk by a vast left-wing conspiracy.”
In it I said “Barack Obama is the anointed big media Democratic presidential nominee. From the way journalists [...]

By: Jim Barrie
I realized this past Earth Day that its roots are entwined with those of my life’s work, which began 30 years ago in a little corner of the aluminum recycling industry in Mount Pleasant.
Today, Smelter Service Corp. is recycling some 300 million pounds of aluminum a year, but when we got our start [...]

By: Glen Hasse
As the oil prices spiral out of control, $138.54/barrel for crude oil at Friday, June 6, close, effecting almost all other material prices and especially food prices; many of us wonder how we are going to survive.
We have already cut back our expenditures, probably to the “bare bones” just to buy food and [...]

By: Bill Gentner
Recently, a writer shared with your readers her opinions about the lack of jobs and parking in the downtown business district. I would like to share with your readers a different perspective on these two issues.
I’ve had the privilege of being associated with the city for over 20 years. Never once was I [...]

I graduated from Central High School in May of 2007 and am now a college student and substitute teacher for Maury County Public Schools.
It is quite obvious to me and probably to most citizens who pay attention that the silly on-and-off-again power struggle between certain members of the county commission who are “willing to go [...]

“Barack Obama says he is now looking for a new church … preferably one where the religious order has taken a vow of silence.”
— Jay Leno
Hillary is right to stay in this race. Barack Obama’s revealing remarks, which give us insight into his disdain for Southern white voters, have given Hillary a strong argument that [...]

I’m trying to imagine Barack Hussein Obama as President. Let’s see………Insurance for everybody, including illegal aliens, Immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq resulting in a bloodbath of Iraqi nationals, the overtake of Iraq by Iran, (close to being a nuclear power), the loss of our investment in American lives, treasure and progress in [...]

“If they (Tennessee Republicans) think that they are going to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because I find unacceptable the notion that you start attacking my wife.”
— Barack Obama

I love my native Tennessee. We did not vote for Al Gore when he ran for president, sealing his loss. A [...]

We are supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. We’re not. We are supposed to be a democracy; the essence of which is that the majority rules.
It doesn’t. Case in point; four California Supreme Court Justices trampled all over the majority of the citizens of that state, [...]

I found Spring Hill Alderman Jonathan Duda’s (May 21) letter to the editor disturbing. It is disheartening to have Maury Regional Hospital criticized for exercising its rights as set forth under the laws of Tennessee.
To do so is a criticism of our legislative process of checks and balances put into place to serve the best [...]