Readers’ Column for the week of Jan. 8, 2017

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Maybe someone could answer this question. I’m just wondering what happened to the $3.5 million the Village of Owego was awarded after the flood to rebuild the Department of public works building, which is going to happen over at the Town of Owego. I’m told now that’s not going to happen. What ever happened to that $3.5 million? Where is it? It’s now almost six years later.

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What is wrong with this country and the people in it? Everything about Russia interfering with our elections should raise everyone’s emotions out of control! We’ve got one of our biggest rivals interfering with our elections, hacking into our emails, and you people look the other way and you still see nothing wrong with it? This country is totally going to the dogs! 

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Nobama plays checkers while Putin makes him look, once again, like a fool by playing chess. The fake news says Russia hacked the U.S. Election. The fact is maybe, just maybe, Russia hacked some Socialist, Democrat computers; although Julian Assange has said flatly that wikileaks did not come from Russia. Anyway, what did the emails show? Why they showed that Hillary was a miserable candidate in the eyes of her own senior election team and that she was fed debate questions ahead of time. Happy New Year!

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Do you think Obama will move his family back to his hometown of Chicago with its incredible crime rate? Somehow I think not. He was not concerned with that crime while in the White House and you can be sure he will not be concerned with it now as he joins all the others and is an everyday citizen. Jan. 20 is right around the corner and it cannot come soon enough. 

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Why all the concern about celebrities not participating in the Trump inauguration. Who really cares? Let’s not forget Trump won this election on his message to the hard working forgotten middle class. Celebrities and the rich really do not fit in. They, along with Clinton, are out of touch with what’s really happening in our country. Look at how well Beyonce, Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen helped Clinton get elected. 

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I agree with last week’s caller that Obama should be a comedian. He’s still bragging about his legacy stating that there is low unemployment, low poverty, low crime, and a strong country winning the fight against Isis. In September he stated he’d consider it an insult if Americans did not vote for Hillary. If his legacy statements were true, Hillary would’ve been elected. I continue to struggle on why these people just don’t get it. 

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Obama should ride off into the sunset like a good cowpoke and Hillary should go slither back under a rock where she belongs. 

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Why all the attention on the supposed Russian hacking? If Obama and his administration knew this was happening, where have they been? Shouldn’t he have done something long before now? It’s only coming up now because Hillary didn’t win the election in November and they need someone to blame. Again – no accountability. Why can’t they figure this out and why they lost the election? The sad part in all this is that these same people have been so called leading this country for the last eight years. I’ve never seen more sore losers. Children don’t behave this badly.

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I’m so thankful that I will get HEAP next month. HEAP is such a big help. It means one less bill for me to pay.

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This is just a message for all Republicans who voted for Mr. Trump. He hasn’t even started yet. Wait until he gets into that office, then you’re going to know what he’s like. He can’t speak the truth, and boy I’ll tell you it’s going to be a mess.

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I would like to address the person who recently posted in this column that they would no longer support the library and considers them unnecessary. This is very selfish, as many do not have the means to invest in technology. You have it at your fingertips. A library has services that fingers can’t provide. Where will you seek information when your system fails or is out of order? Reconsider.

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What do the low information Trump voters have to say about the latest GOP plan in congress? They have voted to roll back, eliminate the independent ethics office. What that means to the low information Trump voters is that there will be no more criticism of apparent breaches of ethics or misconduct in office by Republican members of congress. Low information Trump voters might want to comment on the news that Meals on Wheels can be in jeopardy as a result in cutbacks in congressional funding. Keep your eye on Donald the performer while the Republican congress creates havoc and destroys legislation that has benefitted the middle class of this country for decades. You voted for it, Trumpsters!

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When I was learning to cook and bake the first thing I was taught was to always cover my hair with a hairnet. I find it repulsive that all of today’s cooking shows have the cook’s hair flying around as they prepare their food. I can’t watch the show anymore and I certainly wouldn’t eat any of their food. 

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I would like to know why they’re saying the noise on Saturday, Dec. 31 was centered in Tioga Center. I live between Newark Valley and Owego and I was sure the house next door to me had blown up. I looked out and nothing.

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I enjoyed last week’s article about the demise of the half dollar piece by Merlin Lessler. I too was a paperboy having a hard time collecting and thus getting paid. That’s why I left the route. People used to beat me all the time. Heck of a way to treat a hardworking kid. What I lost in money I gained in experience, preparing me for the real world. Ha, Ha. Also, you never see $2 bills or $1 coins in circulation. We live on quarters and singles for sure.

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I’m looking for someone in this area who teaches organ. If they would leave their number in this column I would appreciate it.

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Great news about Ford’s decision to not move its operations to Mexico! Ford’s CEO states the Trump victory gives him hope and helped in his decision. I ask all Hillary supporters, would this have happened with a Clinton win?

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It’s time to end it. Make Owego great again. Dissolve the village or expand it to include all businesses running away from it (i.e. car dealers, grocers, retailers, hotels, Lockheed, fast food on the south end of the village). Dissolve is the only resolve. You’re getting nothing for your money.

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Don’t worry about the huge explosive sound last Saturday. It was a temporal compression shock wave, similar to a sonic boom, caused by future me returning to save mankind from what will become know as the Trump Wars. Wish me luck!

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An unexpected boom happens in the area and there are hundreds of comments and conversation started over it. Two days before Christmas around 50 families lost their jobs and nothing is said.

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I have just received my Tioga county and town tax bill and cannot believe that my taxes went UP with the great big windfall, the first of many, which they got from Tioga Downs Casino. I sure hope there is some type of auditor who keeps track of all they get and can inform the residents where every bit of that money goes. What say ye, Mrs. chairman?

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It is very difficult to pass up so many worthy charities that could use a buck, but if you send a check you end up on their mailing list and sometimes get passed on to other charities. In this age you can’t send cash in the mail because there are too many shady ones out there. I would like to see the organizations asking for a donation state that you will not be solicited or your name passed on.

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What a waste of eight years.

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Can anyone explain to me using logic and common sense why we keep having Muslim refugees from Syria shoved down our throats when there are thousands of well-vetted Christian refugees waiting to get out?

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