Joseph Loren Matheny, 79, a proud veteran of the United States Army and longtime resident of Prescott Valley, Arizona, passed away on Jan. 22, 2024, surrounded by his family.
(MURFREESBORO) An organization that is dedicated to preserving facts, photos and memorabilia from past generations gathered Friday night (11/5/2021) at Carriage Lane Inn for its 2021 Awards Dinner. The Rutherford County Historical Society had the exchanging of the gavel as outgoing 3-term President Walter White presented the instrument to Pettus Read.
Read shared memories of Uncle Sid and Aunt Sadie, a couple that he wrote about in a syndicated newspaper column many years ago. .
wounded navy veteran who worked for about 30 years for cincinnati bell and late in life got involved in politics, a self-taught. he started reading the constitution and taking glasses in public speaking, and one day he handed his congressman a piece of paper with article one section one of the constitution and said congressman, how is it the epa can double or triple my water bill with this down water management consent degree which in northern kentucky cost $1 billion should there not be a vote on this? i elected you. should there not be a vote before a $1 billion in cost can be imposed on us? i know some of you may not have read all 57 points in mitt romney s economic plan, of but the act is in their plan, but the act is in there and he has promised to sign it as president. unfortunately, when congress was actually doing stuff, when policy and we were in charge, they were doing the wrong thing, and they were vastly expanding the power of regulators and bureaucrats over
i wonder if any of you have felt it was part of your reporting job to try to explain it, or have tried to explain it. that is, when massachusetts passed a similar a similar law, there was no constitutional run through. there was no question about the power to do that. and yet here was this major question about whether the federal government could do that. everyone at this table knows the difference. chief justice roberts went to some pains in his opinion to explain that difference. of course, you guys had 185 pages worth of opinions to try to put into a report. is that something any of you have written about, in the course of covering this issue? is that something you think is important to try to convey? or is it something people do not think about, do not care about, do not need to know? i did a piece about justice kennedy s conception of liberty as something baked into the federal structure, which is different than the due process that might be the basis to attack a sta