School Consolidation, County Property Taxes, County Commissioners

The Hillbilly Blogger is upset about the defeat of a school consolidation bill in the state legislature that would have required community input before school consolidation. The defeat of this bill will result in less democratization. His additional point is that we, as citizens, must live with our mistakes. Thus we cannot recall an elected official. Some excellent points are made about the steep rise in property taxes in Harrison County. Is our assessor's office over-zealous? Where and how is this new source of money being spent? Notict that the County Commissioners are now donating your money to the United Way. Does that mean that since government is taking over this once private function that the rest of us should just keep our hands in our pockets? "A recent Bill(HB4040) in Charleston (The School consolidation Bill)that would have returned some of the decision making powers concerning closing and consolidating of schools back to the communities that are so adversely affected by these decisions made by a few incompetent bureaucrats was not advanced out of committee so the bill is basically dead. This action by Mr. Robert Plymale and the rest of the Communist cronies on the committee have dealt a blow to Democracy in the small communities around the state."