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It’s good to be working at the keyboard again, but holy smoke have things changed. This computer keyboard and flickering green screen are a far cry from the typewriters of 20 years ago. Almost nothing is left of the older way of producing a newspaper.
The old hot lead type was mostly gone from small newspapers, Of course, when I first met Walter Potter and Bill Diehl. But reporters still wrote their stories on typewriters, and editors still marked Up the copy with soft-lead pencils before passing it on to others who actually set the type. ? No more! Today I am forced to write on this computer with its clicking keyboard, and then the story is sent by telephone line directly to another computer that drives the typesetting equipment. It’s different.
Some things haven’t changed for me, however:
-- At the national level, I still believe Jefferson was right. That government is best that governs least.
— Good public schools are vital to the health and wealth of our community. I have supported them and will continue to do so.
-- Residential housing seldom generates enough tax revenue to pay for the services it requires. Which is a nice way of saying that more houses invariably mean higher taxes. Land use taxation is a way of moving tax liability away from farmland and onto residential housing, which requires the county services that cost so much money.
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