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Recent comments from 'GregBader'

Presidents all deserve our thanks and respect
GregBader Monday, May 13, 2013: 6:54 am	respect the office, but retain the common sense and sack to impeach the man as per the setup of the constitution when necessary.

Foxcliff North considers incorporation
GregBader Saturday, May 11, 2013: 4:06 pm	I've been commenting for quite a long time about how the politicians here are driving people FROM Martinsville and not bringing people TO Martinsville. I think this article pretty much verifies my previous contentions. I am saddened that this is all happening. What MarkMcDaniel says is spot on.

Starbucks should stay neutral in gay marriage debate
GregBader Tuesday, April 23, 2013: 8:30 am	Spend your coffee money at Cafe 166 or the Mixing Bowl. Keep your money local and forget overpriced StarBucks!!!

Isabelle Borg: Comfortable in many cultures
GregBader Monday, April 22, 2013: 7:31 am	Isabelle is a sweetheart!

Half-truths, innuendo have no place in ‘news’

GregBader Monday, April 8, 2013: 8:53 am

The Blog http://martinsvillereport.blogspot.com/site has an area for feedback for readers to input "the rest of the story" if anyone feels like only half the story is reported. That is what it is for. Community discussion. The MartinsvilleReport brings forth a much needed critical perspective that is completely MISSED by the Reporter-Times, which I feel only presents 1/2 of the story. We present the other half.

Mandate for guns in schools a serious overstep
GregBader Monday, April 8, 2013: 8:43 am	The next time a shooter enters a school, maybe we can disarm and disable him with a protractor and ruler.

Donnelly supports same-sex marriage
GregBader Monday, April 8, 2013: 8:41 am	Wow! IT did not take long for him to be changed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. It happened quicker than when evan Bayh sold us out.

Imagining secret journals of McCoy, others
GregBader Sunday, March 24, 2013: 12:05 pm	"He's dead Jim"

Mayor returns proceeds
GregBader Wednesday, March 20, 2013: 5:22 pm	I think Tomcatt68 gets it. I'm not so sure the rest of the community does and after reading this article, I know the Mayor still doesn't get it.

Township’s use of CAGIT funds questioned
GregBader Friday, March 15, 2013: 8:50 am	Great article. However, this is not anything new that we are not aware of. No one here seems to care of money is used improperly. This issue was reported on FIRST in the MARTINSVILLE REPORT in this article: http://martinsvillereport.blogspot.com/2013/01/its-all-about-firemen.html

Individual, businesses honored for contributions
GregBader Thursday, March 14, 2013: 7:27 am	Three good men!

City provides comic relief through bad decisions

GregBader Tuesday, March 12, 2013: 8:44 am

I see alot of unhappy people here. If you all are so unhappy with the way things are done in Martinsville, would it not be more productive to attend and BE ACTIVE in council meetings and township meetings than to just comment on this site? If you are truly that dissatisfied with our leaders, attend the meetings, watch what they do, talk to them, put the heat on them, call them, write them, etc..... If you do nothing, they will continue to do what they please. In the end, it is our fault for not managing these guys. Our form of government works well if we get involved. If we do not get involved, it is what it is.

Bell-East: No new English, math student teachers
GregBader Monday, March 11, 2013: 6:58 am	Unintended consequences of the government interfering with local schools. Sometimes legislation mentality is like crowd mentality with an IQ of about 50.

City provides comic relief through bad decisions
GregBader Saturday, March 9, 2013: 3:55 pm	If you are interested in even more things to make you chuckle and shake your head, just visit another news site dedicated to such things! http://martinsvillereport.blogspot.com/

Elliott, Reddick new party chiefs
GregBader Monday, March 4, 2013: 3:40 pm	Are these new guys any better than the old guys?

Mayor defends auctioneering for city

GregBader Friday, February 22, 2013: 3:59 pm

Some of you may be right in that another auctioneer MAY have charged more. But then again, another local auctioneer may have truly done it for free, unlike Deckard, who seems to have done a "bait and switch" on the town. Unless you take competing bids, you will never know the truth and there will always be a conflict of interest and ethical questions. Do you Remember the Mayors campaign signs all over town a couple years ago? In big letters it said "HONESTY, INTEGRITY, Phil Deckard".

Homosexuals should not be allowed in Boy Scouts
GregBader Tuesday, February 19, 2013: 8:06 am	i think "don't ask don't tell" works. I am an Eagle Scout. We had a gay dude in our troop. Everyone knew. We just accepted him. At that age, we did not care. We just wanted to camp and have fun. We all worked together.

Warehousing mentally ill in jail is bad policy
GregBader Saturday, February 16, 2013: 8:42 am	All the state run insane asylums and mental houses were closed by Evan Bayh when he was governer in order to save money and to shut down the awful houses of horror that these govt. facilites were. We need to have new facilites to house and help these mentally ill folks. Just not run by the state. People were being abused and dying left and right for no reason in the state run houses of horror.

Letter to the editor spreads false information

GregBader Saturday, February 16, 2013: 8:38 am

To the Mayor: My comment about covering something up with the blanket story was an intent at what was called a pun. Blanket, cover up? get it? I care not about this story. Our folks did the best they could. There seems to be a glitch in the cell phone to local emergency responders timespan and not in the response of our local guys. Everyone on this comment chain is talking about everything BUT that. The local guys did a great job. I think there needs to be in inquiry into the delay between the time the cell phone call was made and the time the firefighters got the call. The time from when the firemen got the call to when they arrived at the scene cannot be questioned!! They did well. The firemen did a good job. I cannot comment on the blanket issue. I do know that blankets should be standard issue though.

Losing our best friend
GregBader Saturday, February 16, 2013: 7:56 am	Amy great story. Anyone who has had a pet would agree.

City considers new utility charge

GregBader Wednesday, February 13, 2013: 7:04 am

Mark, No qualifications required. Look at our president, What are his quals? However, relative to other cities, the residents of Martinsville have been paying half in terms of water and sewer. The system is old, and every Boss Hog that has been elected here did not want to raise taxes gradually to maintain the system. Now that is has been mismanaged for year after year, it is collapsing. Decades of neglect by the incompetent politicians. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. If you want to read more about how the politicians are "doing you" visit this website and read more: http://martinsvillereport.blogspot.com/

Letter to the editor spreads false information
GregBader Monday, February 11, 2013: 8:52 am	The mayor is covering something up here with this blanket story.

MSD tries to avoid teacher evaluation issue
GregBader Monday, January 21, 2013: 7:44 am	2500 teachers punished for sexual misconduct There is no need to re-evaluate any of the teachers. RIGHT!! However, like any group of people, most are good, and there are bad apples that must be weeded out in order to help the kids. Read this article that was just in the reporter times.

Many helped make training burn a success
GregBader Friday, January 4, 2013: 7:21 am	We all have skeletons in our closet. Just hopefully they stay there. That is just part of the deal called "life".

A lot was wrong at meeting
GregBader Saturday, December 22, 2012: 7:55 am	Wash Township is the poster child for why ALL township governments should be eliminated. This circus has gone on for way too long.

Shooting prompts districts to look at plans
GregBader Wednesday, December 19, 2012: 3:56 pm	NOT COWER. Last two words of above.

Shooting prompts districts to look at plans

GregBader Wednesday, December 19, 2012: 3:53 pm

Agreed. Until we arm a couple teachers in a concealed manner, cowering in groups in the corner of the classroom only makes it easier for the shooter to kill more efficiently. Our schools plans are weak and only suggest retreat. The doors on the school are glass, Easy to get in. Only when we proactively seek to knock down (with bullets) drug induced sicko killers by trained and armed teachers, the killing will continue in the "gun free" zones that are basically zones with sheep and no shepherd, and the wolf is lurking nearby, seeking blood. Just think, if one or two teachers in this school were armed, at least 1/2 of those kids would be alive today. If you were a parent of a dead child, do you like those odds to see your kid again? The odds that day were 100% that you would never see your child alive. I'll take the 50/50 everyday all day long. We must act and now cower.

Coal plant should close
GregBader Wednesday, December 12, 2012: 9:55 am	Yes, IPL needs to go clean. Perhaps we can cover the entire county with solar panels and eliminate all houses and farmland, use car batteries to power our homes, make generators powered by rats walking in a wheel, or perhaps, we can put all that HOPE and CHANGE in a 55 gallon drum, stir it up, open it, and out will come the electricity. This guy is correct!!

Stolen items recovered in Morgan County
GregBader Friday, December 7, 2012: 11:22 pm	This picture reminds me of the long version of "Alices Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie. Funny. If you have never heard it, please find it and listen.

Marijuana: Should Indiana legalize it?
GregBader Thursday, December 6, 2012: 10:09 am	Try telling a cancer patient this line of misinfo. Try telling someone who has had multiple surgeries and is tired of the doc's throwing addicting legal heroin pills at them for pain. I've experienced the latter, and the legal stuff is far far more dangerous than the illegal stuff for a very small sector of the population.

SCI REMC board issues $37,900 in grants
GregBader Thursday, December 6, 2012: 10:06 am	Bob agreed

Water debate is fishy
GregBader Tuesday, November 13, 2012: 5:27 pm	attend more council meetings and work WITH the council. The good ol boys are starting to fade fast and the new folks WILL work with you.

Morgan County vote ushers Mayfield into Dist. 60; Bray elected to legislature

GregBader Wednesday, November 7, 2012: 5:27 pm

Welch would have had a chance had she not buried her nose far into Pat Bauer's rear end and followed him all the way to Illinois two years ago. That was her swan song. When I talked to her at the fair this year, I told her that the voters her would not put her in office after that stunt. She just replied "Well, we made our point" and changed the subject Yea, well, the voters just made their point Mrs. Welch, and did not change the subject.

Greater council involvement urged on Main Street grant
GregBader Wednesday, November 7, 2012: 8:16 am	well written article!

New bridge over White River open, but work on project will continue

GregBader Monday, November 5, 2012: 8:12 am

"Originally, the bridge had been expected to take 1 to 1 1⁄2 years to complete, with the work expected to be done by the end of 2011. Design changes, weather conditions and right-of-way acquisitions have caused delays." You mean these are recurring issues that were left out of the original planning in order to sell the timeframe. Who builds anything outdoors without planning for delays, weather, etc.....? These are known variables that were ignored. amazing. Now that the shoulders are wide, can I fish off the bridge?