A selection of reader comments from our Facebook page last week and this week:
On if you could be a judge for a food competition at the state fair, what food would you want to judge:
• Cupcakes, ice cream or pizza ... — Stephanie D.
• We were there yesterday and we were asking each other the same question. We all said the jellies, honey and cakes. Yummy — Lori B.
On life sentences for juveniles coming under increased attack, and if life without parole should be a sentencing option for juvenile criminals:
• Evil people need punished — David S.
• Little crooks grow up to be big crooks. Lock them up and melt the key — Matt U.
• The reason teens do things is they think they will just be in jail until they are 18. What our generation needs is to make prisoners work like they did years ago then they wouldn’t want to go back to jail. They have it to easy — Della S.
• Yes — Marty D.
• Many kids make stupid choices. I think it depends on the crime but obviously if it’s worth a life sentence then it’s probably murder or something. At that point then I think they should spend the 20-plus years in prison because they weren’t too stupid to know better. But if it’s something like stealing a car then they should get a second chance and their records erased as an adult. If they are true criminals then it will happen as an adult and then, as adults, they can be punished. I totally believe murders and true sex crimes as a minor should have to spend more time in prison — Alicia P.
• Depends on the crime but definitely if it were murder; just because they are juveniles, doesn’t mean they don’t understand that murdering someone was wrong! If their crime included raping, molesting another child, they should face consequences; other crimes that get a life sentence should be given a second chance if it were something done out of ignorance or stupidity — Karen S.
On high school football getting ready to kick off in Four Seasons Country, and what rivalry football matchup you are most looking forward to:
• Princeton versus Bluefield. The team that loses this game will face an uphill battle to make the playoffs. Princeton plays the tough MSAC and Bluefield still has Gate City, Charlotte Latin and Wayne — Jason F.
• The Battle of The Views — LeighAnn K.
• I agree with Jason — Princeton and Bluefield — Robin J.
• Beavers versus Graham — Jim S.
• Mount View and River View. Things are looking up for the Knights — Renee B.
• Graham versus Beaver — Patricia S.
• Beaver-Graham! — Andi L.
On whether officials are doing enough to keep the Mountain State clean of litter and trash:
• Drag the prisoners out of their cells and have them clean every square inch of public land in this state. I bet most of them would love the chance to go outside the walls of the prison. Only let non-violent prisoners participate — Joe H.
• It isn’t the job of the officials. It is the job of the people making the mess — Mark D.
• There needs to be better ways of catching those who are throwing their garbage out on the sides of the roads and make them have community service to clean it up. Also, the landfill costs are a bit high compared to other places ... in Virginia and South Carolina, they have garbage drop-off stations in rural areas and people can drop their trash off there at no cost, then the dumpsters are hauled to their big landfill — Karen S.
• I saw some folks hired by the state out the other day in my neck of the woods (literally — woods) and stopped to say thank you for cleaning up the trash. They had piles of it. I wish we had more programs like that. I hate to drive along in the woods and see bags of trash that some piece of you-know-what has tossed over the side of the road. Tires abound in those little ravines. Talk about needing jobs here ... let’s hire more people to go along roads like that and get the trash, especially near Thorn Hill where decent folk would like to get water without looking at a dump. That isn’t a place for someone to dump or burn their trash. Keep it out of there! — Sarah K.
Columns
August 22, 2012
Food, football, criminals, more
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