Speak Out 5/17/14

County has a

new first lady

Has the new lady mayor replaced the presiding commissioner's wife as the new first lady of the county?

Ask for public

view on Bagby

In your Opinion column, why don't you ask Poplar Bluff citizens how many agree or disagree with the firing of city manager, Doug Bagby.

Auctions are

a big ripoff

Yeah, auctions. Auctions, they're ripoffs. I've been through two auctions and I've been to a lot of them, but auctioneers oughten to have to bring somebody with him and that person with him ought not be allowed to bundle stuff up together so nobody else will buy the whole thing and he will buy it for hisself. It's just totally unacceptable and I think it's wrong! When a guy comes, the one who's piling the stuff together, and showing it off and instead of selling one item they bundle the whole bunch of stuff together all at once and somebody says he just wants to buy one item and they say no you have to take it all and they sell it to the guy piling it up. I think that is wrong! It's nothing but low-life thievery, crookery. You pay an auctioneer a commission and everything to work for you, not to work for a partner he's got piling the stuff up. I think it's wrong! Like I say, it's thievery. When and auctioneer and you sign on the dotted line and you end with your bargaining to sell the stuff he ought to work for you to get top dollar and his help ought not be trying to buy all of it so they can take it and sell it or scrap it and make a killin' off it. You could go ahead and make a killin' off of it yourself. Again, people that's gonna have an auction watch who you hire and specify that none of their help can buy nothing.

Clean up

the park

I call about the 24 hour pharmacy. I do agree with that. Also in the clean-up part. I hope this is printed, too. They do need to clean up the Bacon Park, so I hope all of this is printed.