Speak Out 12/30/18

Learn to yield

Does the word "yield" or "yield sign" mean something different in Butler County, Mo. than it does in the rest of the civilized world? "Yield" means you yield to oncoming traffic. You yield to vehicles already in the intersection. It does not mean they yield to you. When a car is in an intersection you do not pull on ahead of it because you came to the yield sign. I don't know what they're teaching in drivers ed. these days but I really don't think the word "yield" has changed in the last I don't know ... 50 years but I guess the idiocy of the drivers these days has just almost changed the English language. "Yield" still means you stop, you do not go ahead of a person that's already in oncoming traffic or in an intersection.

Road tax vote

I'd like to say I would have like to have voted for a road tax but I voted against it because they was not using the money for the roads. If they'd use the money for the roads, I'd love to have a road tax to improve our roads. But splitting the money between the highway patrol and the roads, that's 155 million per road that 155 million is not that much. If you put it all towards the roads, I'd vote for it every time.