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Kokomo Tribune (Newspaper) - November 30, 2007, Kokomo, Indiana We Welcome letters to the editor on any topic of general the Kokomo Tribune reserves the right to edit All letters for Good taste and letters of 250 words or fewer Are All letters must be signed with a full address of the author and a daytime Telephone number so authorship can be address items to Kokomo 300 Union Box in 46904 fax 765 email i this Page designed by Tim Rivers Kokomo Tribune Friday november 2oo7 the Issue adoption of vote centers our View the plan would be state should of vote enter plan state legislators should approve Secretary of state Todd Kokitas plan to allow vote centers for next years presidential this plan would be both cheaper for taxpayers and More convenient for a hard Combina Tion to the approach would be less expensive because it would Call for fewer polling Sites and thus fewer elec Tion it would be More convenient because it would give voters four Days Botn cheaper for tax to cast ballots at any county payers and More voting regardless convenient for of where they voters in Cass for might be Able to choose from such places As the 4h the Logansport mall or memorial perhaps they would swing by the fair grounds on the Way to work or cast a vote at the mall during a shopping in Howard residents might cast a ballot at Bon air school on the North Carver Community Center on the East Law local 292s Union Hall or Kokomo High school on the West Pilot projects in Tippecanoe and Wayne counties this month worked the Lafayette journal and courier noted in an editorial that the Tippecanoe county Experiment encountered some Early but the newspaper pointed out that while some voters we rent Able to vote at the first location they the concept did give them an alternative not previously available they could go someplace else to under the current system in most voters who encounter Long lines or malfunctioning machines at their polling places have few in Tippecanoe county this they had 21 other voting Cen ters to choose Rokita has already announced that hell ask the legislature to consider expanding this concept we applaud his office for coming up with this and we urge lawmakers to approve it simply makes sense to adopt an approach that will be a Benefit to both voters and taxpayers at a time when taxpayers throughout the state Are scream ing for lawmakers should be saving every dime they and making it More convenient for hoosiers to vote should be everyone for voters across the state have been limited to casting ballots at a single polling place during one 12hour recent moves to make it easier to cast Absentee bal lots have helped that and the voters in Cass county this year showed their appreciation by More than doubling the Early vote totals from four years vote centers Promise to further expand opportunities for for lawmakers to approve this plan would be a Victory both for fiscal responsibility and for and Kokomo Tribune sound dont ignore sad signs of depression As we begin to and the Winter Many fellow hoosiers will be Gin to experience what is called seasonal affective or its seasonal depression experienced when Levels of serotonin dip due to a Lack of depression this time of As we approach can be severe if you add sad to the it can be Dev if you find yourself losing in Terest in things you normally sleeping More and isolating yourself More and you May have these the Best recommendation i can share is to seek the help of a Well trained he or she will help you with cop ing tools prescribed medications that do dont take depression it can be totally devastating and i Hope everyone has a merry Albert Worth Kokomo jury duty cannot be taken lightly a few weeks a trial was conducted in Howard circuit court in which a 47yearold Man was charged with the sex Ual assault of a 14yearold evidence was presented by the prosecution that was not disputed by the prov ing the Man did in fact have multiple sexual encounters with this child Over the course of a including testimony by the the prosecution also Dis played that the defendant was in fact aware of the age the child at the time of the in the the jury concluded that the Man was not guilty of sexually assaulting this one of the jurors told a police detective that they Felt the child was too which should have had no bearing on their decision of guilt or inno i have always believed in and defended our criminal Justice even when i have Felt like a victim of it As a Law enforcement i have never spoken out Over the outcome of a trial but in this i feel that its necessary for our Community to know that this jury did not take their responsibility being selected As a juror is a duty that cannot be taken Light it is a responsibility that few look Forward but must be taken seriously by All who Are called upon to As a citizen and a Law enforcement i at the very disappointed that this took place in the Community i serve and where my family we deserve Kokomo police americas debts will come due we by present the richest nation on yet we Are by the same accounts in debt to the sum of an unimaginable this debt is due largely to our inability or refusal to pay for the services or things we wish to taxes to the average american Are a sort of dirty we cringe from always always our in their refusal to pay the English tax on entered us into the which eventually led to our our knowing our feelings concerning taxes and knowing they need our votes to continue their present Cater to our desires and let us continue in this pres ent impracticable situation instead of insisting that we pay our debts As they come borrow from whomever is will ing to lend us the surely we must realize that this Money will eventually have to be repaid and that while we Are using we Are paying in Terest on the interest we Are paying is a Drain on our re sources and Only benefits the countries who Are receiving it when we have storms in floods in fires in the first thing that comes to mind what is the govern ment going to do about it we dont seem to realize that these extra services Are resulting in new and these new offices require technology and people to operate this kind of thinking can Only result in larger and More unmanageable How Long has it been since we have heard mention of a balanced budget Harold droll Kokomo Young iranians Are turning to texting text messaging is a Way of expressing criticisms not subject to by Parisa Dezfou Lian the Institute for War peace reporting Iran every millions of Young iranians Are engaged in and in some scandalous according to the country Mobile communications More than 20 million text Mes sages Are sent within the coun try every with the largest number of messages sent be tween 10 and 1 that when the youth in the country communicate with one often transmitting Mes sages that would meet with Dis approval of conservative a using cell phones to Send text messages has reached Epi Demic proportions in the creating an invisible but powerful social network that is All but invisible to the author its become the preferred Way to conduct political and cultural filling the Gap left by the dearth of free and inde pendent political much of it aimed at president Mahmoud makes up a surprisingly Large percentage of the one joke making the rounds this summer during the coun try gasoline read Ahmadinejad was asked what people without gasoline should ride he replied that they should ride on the 17 million who voted for the message was soon on blogs All across the and was even cited by the voice of americas persian Babak an expert on social says that text messaging is one of the few methods of expressing views and criticisms that has not been subject to there is no need to conduct an opinion poll to keep a Finger on the pulse of iranian he enough to collect and Analyse Day today text text messages have also be come an effective if unauthorized method of keeping up on the such As Ahmadinejad appearance at Columbia University in september and re ports that the government in tended to launch a Campaign to make Young women adhere strictly to the islamic dress text messages have also been responsible for the rapid spread of one false re claiming that gasoline rationing had been postponed for a led to mile Long lines of vehicles at service stations across the another false report that Farah the widow of the late Shah of had died even fooled some of the country legitimate news earlier this there were reports of police checking the contents of Young Peoples there was even one Media report that someone had been arrested and convicted of keeping and sending immoral text those reports initially appear to have led to a decline in text but the Pace of Tex Ting appears to have resumed after widespread criticism in the Media of such a Cou pled with denials by police officials that such an arrest took the at least for seems to have come to terms with the even if the flow of messages represents a direct Challenge to the state and the political and social restrictions that Are in web poll previous poll results texting in Iran today amounts to a popular struggle to talk freely about politics and break social taboos in a tightly controlled environment and for the at it appears that nothing is Safe from criticism or Parisa Dezfou Lian is a journalist and political analyst in Iran who writes for the Institute for War peace readers May write to the author at the Institute for War peace 48 Grays inn London wc1x web site question of week current Pou question who will play the remaining of their nil games undefeated new England patriots will former representative John Smith run against Ron Herrell next Indianapolis Colts year yes neither team no both will and will meet in the acc championship voice your opinion online today at k of part of your online life unlock your precious memories i remembrances Are what we give to our As times goes by and memories tend to be forgotten More than Yogi want them you preserve your thoughts and i memories so precious to i have met Many people who tend to put a door Between them and the memories of a time Vohen they were Young and growing to be the next Lead ers of our a they for get that where they came from holds a Large part of their ambitions and Hopes for a better time and More easily to live sometimes Are those who Are afraid that friends will think less of them if is found out that they lived on wrong Side of the and they were poor in Many seem to think that if you keep the Between then and now and you dont desire to look then you can Start anew and life will be abundant and the chances of sue Cess will Rise and the chances of defeat will be this is where this old Man will Tell you that you whom desire to go this Way will Rob and cheat your your grandchildren and All the others who could have prospered from the stories of the Days of old that lie within your memory that you dont in tend to open you Are doing them an injustice by closing your door to the that were and really still Are your stepping stones to me world you live in memories Are what you and i give to the future Chil and they just Are too pre Cious to store away in a vault never to be memories Are what you and i give to the whether in the Way of a Book As a written column such As what i bring to you each week i have Many readers whom i Hope Are passing on my columns to those who use them As a stepping Stone in their i am proud of where i lived As a child and of the Way that we sur Vived the perils of Stock mar Ket soup lines for the gaming from a Large having seven Sisters and six my memories of the Days of old Are those precious memories that i will always talk about and be proud of the life Wel lived under the love of two we called mom and dad was always the quiet Type of person who worked his Back Side off to feed his and give us a Home warm with All the love we he never expressed himself saying he loved All of but you knew it from the other things he 1 was a Man of 19 and at the Mill when in found out that dad really had a heart of Gold Many times when we had a we would sit Back and talk How it was with him and his parents trying to maintain a Home and keeping together As Long As his dad was killed by a runaway and his mom lived a Hara me r trying to give the family what they it was nothing for a Young Mart of 14 to leave Home to go looking for a Job that would get him started on his Road of life and his look for a Nice Gal to marry and live what i Calt Nemories so precious to All those who came afterwards he found that special lady at the i age of and the courtship of Twat precious people started the even Hajj Al Road to marriage and to the j starting of our i will always keep my door to the past open so that whomever wants to know about can do so just by asking i have always stated that if i Ever get that robbing at least my family can go Back into my past by ing All my columns and relating i them Back to somewhere in my a key might turn the lock Back open and memories so precious to me will come Ray Uncle Ray Day can i be reached by email at or t

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