“READERS FORUM” FEBRUARY 16, 2018

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  1. “Steve Bannon, the Chief Strategist for Donald Trump, was interrogated for 20 hours, in four separate meetings over two days this week, as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

    Mueller is a former Director of the United States FBI appointed by Republicans and approved 98-0 and is a decorated United States Marine War Veteran shot in combat defending his Country.

    Trump Chief Strategist Bannon answered every question that was put to him by Mueller’s team. That is not what Bannon did with David Nunes House GOP Intelligence Committee where Bannon declined to answer some of lawmakers’ questions, despite a subpoena.”

    • Bannon is a soldier, I think maybe he’s doing his duty and telling 100% of what he knows. I bet a lot of people want to shut him up to hide that stuff from the law. But he shouldn’t.

  3. Article on EyeWitness News webpage about the school teacher accused of molesting a student. It reads:

    “Wolf has been ordered to have no contact with the victim of his alleged crimes, or the family. He’s also been ordered not to stay off EVSC property.”

    Ordered NOT to stay off EVSC property? Where do they get these talking heads who write this stuff? No wonder journalism is a dying art. Come on EyeWitness News, hire someone with an 8th grade education or at least someone to proofread their work.

  4. Who is in charge of the roads in the county? Have they seen how bad they’re getting?

      • Typical dem. What isn’t true in the link? Does the truth bother you? It would if one of the victims was your loved one.

      • Why criticize Mueller? Because he is pursuing mythical “collusion” charges against Trump while ignoring known collusion between Russia and Clinton. And he hired a bunch of Trump haters to do his dirty work.

    • Check out the 13 indictments and one guilty plea from Russians that Mueller filed today. So much for the “Witch Hunt.”

      • millions and millions of taxpayer $ for uranium mueller to indict boris catering for facebook ads………………..LMASO……………..MAGA TRUMP……………….KICKING ECONOMY ASS…………………MAGA TRUMP DRAINING THE SWAMP….😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

  7. On the subject of targeting local low-level marijuana dealers and Indiana’s sentencing laws which have been the subject of documentaries for being extreme, I can’t help but wonder if some of these pot dealers, if sentenced harshly, might create a new set of problems if they are sentenced as hard criminals, particularly during a time when the idea of marijuana legalization is gaining greater acceptance throughout the U.S. ?

    I understand that several of the recent murders in Evansville have occurred during marijuana transactions, but many of the people involved in this trade are not killers, and some teachers who might be involved in this trade would never sell to children. I realize this might help curb some of these shootings, but I am concerned about a moral hazard in prosecuting some of these dealers so harshly, destroying their careers with criminal records, taking away their children, etc.

    I can remember a scene in the movie ‘9 to 5’ when Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda smoke a joint together, and this was seen as harmless. Now, at least in Evansville, In , some pot dealers are looked upon as hard-core, when I do not think all of them are.

    I don’t expect all of the ignorant cop-sucker-senior-citizen-drinking-is-ok-because-it-is-legal posters who are among the small group who routine posters on this website to agree, but I would like to mention that I do not smoke pot, drink alcohol or engage in any kind of recreational drug use.

  8. We’ll find out how good(or bad) a President Trump is years from now when we see what effect his lack stance on in environmental protection has on the environment.

    You don’t have to be that smart to know that giving permanent tax cut to corporations, relaxing environmental standards will raise the stock market, but will these things end up harming the environment(e.g., global warming, etc.), or creating real, living wage paying jobs, or will that do more to make wealthy people richer ? Will people me smart enough to know the difference if they are lied to enough ?

    That’s like saying that building a medical school will replace all of the living wage paying jobs lost when Whirlpool left the area.

    He can make his grandiose talk about ‘rusted out factories coming back to life’ as the election nears, but I have to see more evidence than just statistics and more low-wage jobs. Trickle-down economics is not what it is cracked up to be, or what Arthur Laffer claimed it was.

    • Good point.

      Trump allowed coal mines and power plants to dump cadmium, arsenic and mercury back into the environment boosting the winners stock price but the wealthy people of Evansville get to have their taxes raised when the toxins hit their water systems to clean it up.

      Yeah Commentor, very good point….

      • I gotta call bs on that one. The regulatory limits on the aforementioned elements haven’t changed.

        • These two links are what I based my comment on Pete;

          https://www.vox.com/2017/2/2/14488448/stream-protection-rule

          https://www.snopes.com/2017/02/06/dump-coal-waste-into-streams/

          My question to you would be, if Obama’s revised interpretation of the 1983 law didn’t change anything, why all the hoopla of rescinding it?

          I’m actually kinda open minded and you seem to know a lot more about this than I do. So if you would want to respond I’ll leave it at whatever you say….

          • I can only speculate on the Hoopla, but I think it has to do with a lack of understanding by the journalist. The articles you mention are discussing a federal issue. OSMRE does not issue mining permits directly they administer the state programs. The states already have rules in place regulating those mining activities. In our case, the IDNR approves the permit, regularly inspects mines to ensure compliance with the permit, and vigorously enforces said compliance.

            Besides that, OSMRE can’t supersede the clean water act, which regulates water pollution.

            I don’t care much for Federal regulation of these types of activities. Not that I am against regulation, but because one size doesn’t fit all. Environmentally sensitive areas vary greatly throughout the states, and the feds have to regulate to protect the most sensitive area. That may not be necessary everywhere. The other issue was articulated in the article—vagueness. The feds sometimes try to construct a framework that allows states some freedom to make decisions based on state specific conditions, but sometimes the feds leave too much room for interpretation. This makes regulations difficult to comply with and enforce.

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