OpinionDecember 7, 2021
Speak Out 12-7-21
To anyone who wants Christmas cheer: you need to drive by the house on Evondale. My kids who drive through Candy Cane Lane in St. Louis every year say that our Evondale house is the best they've seen, and so they manage to see it each year. To the folks who provide this eye/sound feast for all of us, thank you. And I hope a lot of people drive by and see all your hard work and holiday merriment...
Christmas cheer
To anyone who wants Christmas cheer: you need to drive by the house on Evondale. My kids who drive through Candy Cane Lane in St. Louis every year say that our Evondale house is the best they've seen, and so they manage to see it each year. To the folks who provide this eye/sound feast for all of us, thank you. And I hope a lot of people drive by and see all your hard work and holiday merriment.
Rams settlement
I knew we should have placed bets on how fast Parsons would have his hand stuck out for the money St. Louis received from the Rams settlement. As a Republican he just can't stand not having some in his pocket. Odds are the "replacements" he is putting on the board deciding on the money will steal most of it from St. Louis.
Health rules
Several posts have suggested that vaccine requirements are a violation of HIPAA rules. That is incorrect. HIPAA rules prohibit the release of protected health information by others without your consent. They have nothing to do with whether you can be required to be vaccinated, or should answer questions about your vaccination status, or any other health issue. That's simply not what HIPAA does. Perhaps folks should read up on HIPAA before making claims about it.
Kindergarten
In order to attend kindergarten, I had to get a Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccination. In order to attend my kindergarten class, I listened to the school nurse who told me I couldn't have had a fever or vomited for 48 hours before returning to class. In kindergarten, I didn't whine about government overreach or teacher-imposed tyranny because I was told I had to raise my hand to speak. The world needs to act more like kindergartners instead of babies.
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Thank you?
Here's a note to local retail supervisors. Teach your cashiers that "have a good 'un" is not the same as "thank you." Some of us are old enough to understand the difference.
Use tax
After reading the back and forth competing messages about the Cape Girardeau use tax, I'm once again glad that I live in Jackson where we know better than to give city leaders anymore tax revenue.
Club sports
Most club or traveling sports teams cost parents and their kid upwards of $2,000 per year. Most kids play on these teams for five to seven years at a cost of at least $10-14,000. That's a year of tuition at Mizzou or SEMO. You parents might want to reconsider your return on investment and, instead, pay an academic tutor.
Jackson football
Jackson has over 400 more high school students than Webb City, but no one wants to talk about the crazy formula that puts a Class 4-sized school against a Class 5-sized school that will likely move to Class 6 next year.
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