January 7, 2009 RSS feed / Opinions & Letters

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Letters to the Editor

The Comet welcomes letters to the editor responding to articles and events in the news. They must include the author's name, address and telephone number. The letter writer's name and city/town will appear in the paper - no exceptions. More...

Web poll

Tell us starting Wednesday at our web site, carrollcountycomet.com

Editor's note: The poll question was inadvertently not changed on the Comet's web site last week so it is being repeated this week. As a result of the extra week of voting on the previous poll, the number of responses nearly doubled. More...

Hooray for township trustees!!

Carroll County Trustees are to be recognized, praised, cheered for their effort to try to do something about the county ambulance situation. More...

Midwest Memo

All that's new
by Alan Shultz

Editor's note: This week's column with a few updates for 2009 is a reprint of a column that ran in the Comet the first week of January in 2007. More...

Guest commentary

Don't spend it if you don't have it
By Steve Ashby Former county councilman

I have spent the last four years serving on the county council and have learned much about county and state government. We are continuing to experience multiple changes that are going to have lasting effects on our society. More...