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Sound Off for October 16, 2017

Play it safe

Notice for MCSD teacher applicants: Your education and desire to work with kids to help them learn will be sacrificed in this district in any effort to keep the peace.

That’s the spirit

To the contributor calling for no tax dollars for Puerto Rico: If you call yourself a Christian, please stop.

Content multiplier

If the Ledger printed everything negative Trump says or does, it would be a hell of a lot thicker.

Leave it alone

Our Government Center is really a beautiful modern building. The latest proposal for replacement looks a lot like the Ralston Towers. So sad. Tearing down the Government Center would be a big mistake.

A fitness issue

If you have to have a background check and drug test to get a job, you should be required to have a background test and drug test to buy a gun.

Lots of aspirin

I do not know how journalists deal with day-in and day-out drama as is happening in this world.

Who are ‘they’?

At one time, Phenix City was called Little Sin City. Now they call Columbus Little Chicago because of all the killings.

Class-action slur

I hope Secretary Tillerson didn't call President Trump a moron. That would be an insult to morons everywhere.

This story was originally published October 15, 2017 at 6:31 PM with the headline "Sound Off for October 16, 2017."

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