Speak Out 1/27/15

What's next

with the city?

I was just calling about this article in the paper, "Speakout: The City Should Pay the Utilities Fund." When I owe money, I have to pay the money back plus interest. Why does the city think they don't? And why are we putting up a tree board? What's next? You're going to have to have a license to shovel snow, or cut your trees down, or fix your gutters or what? How far can the city go? It almost sounds like communism.

Walmart needs

more checkers

It's Saturday night, 10 o'clock. Went to Walmart to get a few things. Two checkers, only. Six or eight people in both lines with baskets piled high. Neither one was moving. With ice cream melting. The checkers didn't seem like they knew what to do. By 11:40, I'd finally made it home. Less than a mile away. Ridiculous! No need for this kind of business.

History lost

in P. Bluff

My name is Viola and I live in Qulin, Mo. I've lived around Poplar Bluff all my life. I'm 81 years old and you've been talking about the historic value of Poplar Bluff. They've lost the most historic thing that they might've had, in my opinion, and that was the sale barn. When I was a child, we used to come to the sale barn in a team and wagon and my dad would bring cows and my mom brought vegetables and chickens and everything and we used the sale barn quite a bit, and I used to dearly love to walk around the sale barn and buy things. And, to me, that's the best thing that I remembered around Poplar Bluff. The railroad to me was never that important. I've never road on the railroad in my life. Thank you and I hope you print this, if not, then that's okay.