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Letter to the Editor
Questioning student transfers
Dear editor:
We are rather new to the Batesville area. We really like it here. One of the things we like is that the town is small so one can easily get a feeling of community. We enjoy the high school athletic games. We have attended the football games held at Batesville High. One of the young men that we went to cheer on is Jordan Childress. I understand that he is no longer with the team. I thought that he was rather good. I was sorry that we lost him. -
Letter to the Editor
Another writer appalled at comments about Westside
Dear editor:
I am appalled at some of the comments made at the meeting for the homeless that was reported in the Wednesday, February 1st, Daily Guard. -
Old Hickory: The board of education
I stopped to pick up a video and ran into Lenny, whom I hadn’t seen in years. He greeted me, and then he asked, “Do you remember in sixth grade when Mrs. M paddled you?”
I asked him why that was the thing he always remembered about me.
“Well, shoot!” he said. “You were the teacher’s pet, and yet you were the only one she ever paddled herself!”
It was true. Her policy was that she never paddled anyone. Instead, she made the offenders paddle each other, and they had to do it until she felt they got it right, meaning hard enough. -
Who knew? Men and women are different
Get this: men and women are different.
Italian researchers made this “groundbreaking” discovery in a recent study.
According to Psych Central, the study, led by Marco Del Giudice, Ph.D., of the University of Turin, used “new and more accurate methods to measure and analyze personality differences.”
Researchers administered personality tests to more than 10,000 people — approximately half men, half women — that assessed 15 personality traits, such as warmth, sensitivity, perfectionism and so on. -
Do politicians think we’re fools?
Dear Editor:
Thursday’s forum articles, Larry Stroud’s “Myths about Sequoyah” and Tony McGuffey’s “News that isn’t,” were very good. From Stroud’s I learned something; with McGuffey I had to agree over and over — The Weather Channel is on a lot around our house, too, and we also would like to know more about who our candidates really are. -
Promise to your health
Despite advances in medical technology, heart disease remains the major cause of death among women. The relationship between certain risk factors — family history, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle — and heart disease is well understood.
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I watch Super Bowl for commercials
OK, I’ll admit to being a fan of Madonna’s.
Back in the ’80s and early ’90s. You know, when she was still relevant. -
State Capitol Week in Review
When the governor presented his requests for supplemental appropriations, the Legislature got a clear picture of its agenda for the fiscal session that begins on Feb. 13.
As mandated by the constitution, the fiscal session will focus almost entirely on budget issues. A few legislators have said they hope to introduce a couple of non-budget bills, but under the constitution it will require strong support from a solid majority of lawmakers for the measures to be filed. -
Silent film speaks loudly
Some might wonder why a person would pay good money to see a black and white movie with no sound.
It isn’t the 1910s, ’20s or ’30s and the movies don’t cost a nickel or dime to see anymore, so why pay $9 a person to watch something where people don’t talk and there is no color, no action, no effects (insert “Gasp!” here).
All that may be true, but “The Artist” which premiered in theaters in late 2011 is gaining buzz for what I like to call simplicity. -
Appalled at statement targeting neighborhood
Dear editor:
I am appalled that a resident of Batesville would publicly make such a horrendous statement as Jamie Blakely made on the evening of Jan. 30 at the First Community Bank during a meeting to discuss homeless. Her statement, “Westside is the cancer of Batesville” is not only offensive but absolutely untruthful. -
Likes indoor pool, but not community center
Dear editor:
I believe that the parks and recreation group has come up with a great plan for the youth in our area, but the idea, like all politicians and special interest groups inputs, just got carried away with it.
Soccer, baseball fields and indoor swimming pool are what Batesville and the surrounding county really needs, but not a community center. -
Journalists are natural fit as debate moderators
Should journalists and news organizations participate in, even sponsor, political debates?
Let’s start with why we have such debates: They are an opportunity for us to hear directly from candidates, to see how they explain, attack and defend positions and proposals.
The value holds true whether it’s a local gymnasium chat-fest between city hall challengers or candidates with multimillion dollar White House campaigns on the line in front of a national TV audience.
