Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
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In reference to the current event “show.” What’s the infraction? Why is the first court case titled “hush money?” She didn’t “hush!” Will she be required to pay it all back? Does the “statute of limitations” apply to covering that? An analogy. How many citizens, among others, mimic history’s “Barabas callers” and how many are under the innocent column? “Well, we don’t have to be, we’re not in charge of what’s important!” Then why would it be important to hear your opinion? “We have a right to speak!” But should we when there’s nothing positive...
The recent school board meeting raises major red flags for our county. As a county commissioner and someone who has been apart of school board and city council meetings, I have never seen any of these bodies of government post 4-5 signs during a public meeting that essentially read if you speak out or cause a disruption we can charge you with a misdemeanor. At the county level and from my involvement with the city council as well, we are always welcome to public opinion and citizen concerns. I feel as a citizen and elected official it is a...
We’re becoming a nation of soothsayers, crystal ball gazers, and now independant paparazzi wannabees. Each one believes their story is the equalizer for a life well lived. The “white noise” has “verbal soot” saturated in it. When did “protest” become the “Be All” of Action? The “right to petiton” our government means a “formally drawn-up request, addressed to a person or body of persons in authority”, not mobs of people boisterously “camped-out”in our streets. This manner of hollering for “action in the moment” sounds precariously equ...
I really felt saddened by the passing of Sheriff department’s Investigator Bradley Lawson & my sincere condolences for his family & to our Sheriff department’s loss of a true public servant. In 2021, I had a dispute with my neighbor’s contractor about some bricks that my brick layer took upon her husband’s sale to me. I told her,” just call the sheriff to resolve the issue.” She did and investigator Lawson came, asked what is going on and told the woman,” he only is gonna pay for whatever bricks he took; not 500 as you say.” He proceeded to co...
A recent Wall Street Journal article provided food for thought about the decibel levels in restaurants. According to the article, in 2023, audio data from the app SoundPrint found that 63 percent of restaurants are too loud for conversation. (Granted, this is a blessing in disguise if the conversation veers toward “SoundPrint? You told me your phone doesn’t have enough space for photos of my trip to the International Lint Museum, but you have room to download SoundPrint????”) My father hated...
You probably have quite a few co-workers with whom you exchange chitchat, banter and superficial observations on current events. (“I fervently believe both Hamas and Putin could be nullified simply by … oooo…fresh Krispy Kremes! Never mind.”) And then there are the “work spouses.” According to a 2006 survey, 32 percent of workers said they had an “office husband” or “office wife.” (That’s about one-third the number who viewed the HR department as their “office mother-in-law,” but tha...
You probably crave a break from my patented “sour grapes” routine, but we must face facts: spring break (a.k.a. Easter break, a.k.a. mid-term break, a.k.a. “unwind, rejuvenate, have fun, but don’t forget how oppressed you are, students”) is not the same for every family. When I was in elementary school, spring break meant making an extra day trip visit to my grandmother, tagging along to another antique shop with my mother or stocking up on books at the library. High school? My job at the conve...
This letter was originally published in the Nashville Tennessean in the 1950’s-60’s. As I think of the terrible slaughter of our American people on the highways I am reminded of the words spoken by Solomon, The wisest man who ever lived, “Where there is no vision the people perish.” Surely, if all the people who get behind the wheels of our vast number of automobiles, trucks and buses would stop for one moment and think seriously of the suffering, pain, heartaches and lost lives of individuals-sometimes whole families wiped out-then we would h...
We’re reminded; the Founders concluded our Constitution would only work for a religion and moral population. Many choose biblical stories, popular to recite, that others admire and applaud. Famously is the “good samaritan” exploit. It’s easy to claim our moral participation from afar, while invoking guilt upon others. The entire world has become our samaritan call, even though this was based on a local appeal while people were on foot. The “foot washing” gesture presents a humble picture, but in today’s shoes, its a bit of nonsense. Ope...
By Deborah Fisher An often quoted phrase related to open government is one by Louis Brandeis, an attorney and associate justice on the Supreme Court whose work and writings spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric lights the most efficient policemen,” Brandeis wrote in a Harper’s Weekly article in 1913, one of his many writings on the topic. Brandeis (1856-1941) believed that “sunlight” on government activities could expose wrongdoing, corruption and inefficiency. It could bri...
Free speech my foot! Our lost language. It’s like, I mean, you know, I have a feeling. I’m like thinking, it’s like a free world out there. I have like a friend, who like, wants to like see this movie, but I’m like, I’ve already seen it. Should I like go again, or like just like tell her, I mean, you know, the ending? Neither. Forget movies and return to grade school English grammar class. This “short circuit comparative jabber” leaves us with no present, without any original thought. And where did the word “any” go? It disappeared betwe...
Our roadsides I just came back to my house on Mt. Joy, from taking a walk to my brother’s and back home. The Lord has given all of us such a beautiful, breezy day, with sunshine and seventy degree weather. The purpose of my walk was to enjoy the day and pick up trash alongside the road. Some of the people who travel through our community throw their trash out their car window and it lies there, very ugly, until someone picks it up. Some of their empty containers which I pick up are evidence that substances which are harmful to good health a...
Sometimes we all forget what the true meaning of Christmas really is. It’s the birth date of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. It’s also a time of giving thanks to those who have also touched our hearts. Tracie Lomax did just that tonight (December 10, 2022) with a wonderful dinner and dessert she brought to our home with love in her heart. The dinner was prepared by wonderful folks at Lomax Church of Christ. My wife of many years is now on hospice care and unable to go out anymore. I am a 24-7 home-care husband now. Not a problem because in...
An Open Response to MLEC about Wireless RF Smart Meters This is a response to an interview/article published in the Lewis County Herald on Oct. 20, 2022, with Keith Carnahan, President and CEO of MLEC. MLEC has received many emails and phone calls from MLEC members and the community who do not want the current smart meters to be replaced with wireless microwave radiation RF smart meters. Based on the above-mentioned interview, we ask MLEC to respond to its members and the community to clarify the following questions and comments: 1. What...
Dear Editor, I am firmly convinced that most people don’t follow politics that closely. Most feel that as long as they’re not directly removing money from my wallet, who cares, right? As we draw nearer to, quite possibly, the most important midterm election of my lifetime, I sincerely hope that the citizens of Lewis County are now paying attention to the fact that elections have consequences, and, as of late, dire ones. While the advent of skyrocketing inflation, violent crime exploding, and ever-climbing fuel prices began almost imm...
Our MLEC Co-Operative turns out to be much less than a co-operative. Without any notification or explanation, it is quietly planning to install Radio Frequency (Wireless) smart meters in our County and the five other counties they serve. They’ll begin in Lewis County in a couple months. There was no announcement, no community meetings, no scientific explorations of what this different technology will bring us - no risk/benefit analysis. I am extremely concerned about the overwhelming science showing biological harm from even very low levels of...
Dear Editor, In response to Melanie S. Kupfer’s, (HCBS Services Coordinator) Letter to the Editor regarding the unprecedented raid on a former Presidents home by the FBI, I would like to quote some facts first and then ask a question. ‘Even if President Trump took classified records, that isn’t a crime. The president, all presidents have the inherent right to declassify any record he wants in any manner he wants, regardless of any otherwise pertinent statute or regulation that applies to everyone else’. -Mike Davis, President Article 3 Project...
I have recently been made aware that MLEC is in the process of replacing current advanced (digital smart) meters for RF (radio frequency) advanced (digital smart) meters in all five counties it services, currently in Hickman County. They plan to start in Lewis County in January 2023. There are 7 Cooperative principals that govern MLEC which can all be found on www.MLEC.com. The second principal, Democratic Member Control, states that cooperatives are democratic organizations controlled by their members who actively participate in setting polici...
This is in response to the statement Senator Marsha Blackburn put out on August 8, 2022 and published in the Lewis County Herald August 11, 2022. First, I would like to clarify that Mr. Trump is the EX-President of the United States. As a member of Congress Senator Blackburn should know this and stop perpetuating the continuing deception. President Biden was elected our current president by an overwhelming majority of voters. Second, furnishings being taken from the White House, as Ms. Blackburn claims the Obamas did, is very different than...
As a local business owner, paying county property taxes, city property taxes, county business taxes, city business taxes, franchise and excise taxes, garbage taxes, wheel taxes, gas taxes, telephone taxes, cable taxes, and sales taxes, I respectfully have a few questions before we raise taxes further. I’ve been told the momentum to build the $39 million dollar school is the rock building security, high maintenance costs of the older school structures, and overcrowding. Are we planning to sell those structures and properties, or will they be d...
Dear Editor and Community, I want to give a big Thank You so very much to the MLEC linemen who rush out after their regular work hours and risk their personal well being to get the power back on for all of us, whether the outage is caused by uncontrollable weather, crashes from out of control vehicles, or equipment malfunctions. I’ve been told they get a lot of flack from the community for how long it takes sometimes to restore electricity, but frankly, I’ve been pleasantly surprised, on more than one occasion, at how quickly they get it bac...
Whenever a business decides that another department of employees is vital, they tend to search out candidates with previous experience, or education, in the requisite field in order to lend credibility to the position and guarantee success. Companies that have managed to sustain progress don’t fly headlong into these decisions lightly. They spend time and resources to vet their prospects, hoping to continue their longevity. However, when the governmental elites deem it necessary that an additional cadre of lackeys is required to relieve the ...
Many of us here have serious concerns about the ongoing rollout of 5G in Hohenwald and Lewis County. These concerns fall into three main areas that I hope we will all think about. 1. First, 5G is an invasion of our property, an unseen trespass of the privacy of our homes and land. 5G intends to cover 100% of our counties and towns, including all rural areas, and will have the built ability to not only monitor everything we do and say, but to arbitrarily turn on, turn off, or limit our use of devices. Each “smart” appliance that we acquire----ou...
