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Sound Off for January 11, 2018

Let’s clean up our act

Litter is bad on Milgen Road, and Gateway Road, too. Columbus, we have a problem.

He doth protest too much

People who are actually intelligent don’t say stupid things like, “I’m like, really, really smart!” “I know more than all the CPA’s and the generals” is a certain tip-off to ignorance.

Blame dealers, not doctors

Washington Post's research on opioids is lacking. American doctors aren't the culprits. CDC stats show half of overdoses were street drugs, not prescriptions.

About that ‘make them pay’ thing ...

Seven hundred twenty-three miles @ $18,000,000,000 … that’s right, eighteen billion! That’s about $24,896,265 a mile, or $4,715.00 a foot — that’s right, a foot! The Bankrupter-In-Chief pulls another scam..

Too high a cost, too little reward

Destroying our Arctic refuge is like burning Granny’s antique furniture to keep warm because we’re too lazy to close the windows.

This story was originally published January 10, 2018 at 10:00 AM with the headline "Sound Off for January 11, 2018."

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