Now on to something else: I am highly concerned about the educational system in Alabama, and local one more so. Are not the politicians’ priorities off-course to spend the money it took to renovate Noble Street when the Anniston school system is so desperately financially strapped, laying off teachers and support workers? It just doesn’t make sense. Perhaps someone can justify it.
If the people of Alabama were faced with a choice to close down schools or enact a lottery earmarked strictly for education, would we close down schools? All of our kids — red, yellow, black or white — deserve better than we are giving them. It’s a disgrace. They depend on us as adults to make good intelligent choices for the best education they can get. We are letting them down.
Now one more thing, why doesn’t someone do something about the very rough ride on I-20 between Oxford and Pell City? It will literally shake the filaments out of your car’s sealbeams and shake the fuses out of their holder. It’s a disgrace to have a major highway like I-20 in Alabama. I can imagine what tourists traveling I-20 say and think, another disgrace to our area. I could keep on and on, but will just ask these questions for now.
James “Jim” Mitchell
Oxford