Today's Opinions

It's a phrase I use often. "I wish we had things like this when I was younger."

I said or thought those words recently while looking at the technology at students' fingertips at Campbellsville Independent and Taylor County schools.

And I was definitely thinking it when I began to delve into the new credit card rules a few weeks ago while preparing for a story.

It has come to my attention that with the newly proposed nickel levy, the Taylor County School District would be able to fund new school buildings. I'm sure many people are in opposition to more taxes, but I firmly believe that we need new schools.

I'd like to share with you the reasons that I support this taxation.

The No. 1 reason I give my support is my experience with our computer lab. T-Card Academy, at the beginning of the year, was paired with the students who had been placed in alternative school. Later on, those students got moved across the hall.

I have never been very tolerant with false facts, and after reading an article about a woman's choice to terminate her child, then later realizing that a teenager that is my own age wrote it, made me want to either be violently ill or laugh. Someone obviously didn't show this girl some actual documented research or facts.

Doing just a brief read-through of the information given in her argument, there is absolutely no way I would believe her if I was fully unaware of the situation of abortion.