After watching this year’s presidential race, the term “fact-checking” has become part of our vocabulary. This is due to the candidates making so many claims that they represent as being the truth that we have to find resources to verify their validity. Recently, Dr. Trey Lott put out a flyer outlining his “experience” as…
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Hoover Vote 2016: Part 1 – Wisdom and Discernment – Place 1 Runoff
Take a few minutes to watch the above video. It was taken in 2009 at a Hoover Budget Hearing in the Council Chambers. Present at this hearing were Mayor Tony Petelos, Council President Gary Ivey, Councilors Jack Wright, Brian Skelton, Mari Morrison, Trey Lott, and Gene Smith. Not present was Councilor John Greene. I attended and…
Politicians will mislead…it’s in their nature to do so.
There’s an old fable about the scorpion and the frog. The story goes like this: A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the…