A March in Muscle Shoals?

We understand several parents are planning a march in Muscle Shoals. Details have not, to our knowledge, been finalized. We look forward to publishing more on this soon.

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We appreciate all submissions, but do request that they be sent in .doc or similar format that can be transferred to our blog. Thanks for your understanding.

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Is This So Hard to Understand?

As our regular readers know, we publish three blogs. The Shoals Crime blog is written primarily by our regular writers, but we do publish other works with permission.

None of the Quad-Cities Cuisine blog is written in direct connection with Shoalanda Speaks, but publishes all new material. We currently have two regular submitters, one of whom (J. Redmon) does write for our regular blog. The second (Cherry Pitts) has never written anything but restaurant reviews and has been published exclusively on the QCC blog. Before Cherry, we had a similar writer who published several critiques for us, but decided to leave. Why?

She felt that by using a screen name known to many, she had jeopardized her job. Our regular blog had written some criticism of the state entity at which she worked, and she didn't feel she could take a chance on being associated with any criticism of her employer.

Now think about this: If a restaurant reviewer is afraid for her job, how would someone critical of their employer feel? Would the school principal dare sign his name to a criticism of the superintendent? Would the police chief wish to be associated with criticism of the mayor? No...we didn't think so. 

Do only cowards write here? No, only sensible individuals who care about the Shoals, but also care about supporting their families and paying their bills as the Bible teaches.

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By the way, we're still waiting to hear what lies anyone here has presented in connection with Muscle Shoals City Schools or anything else...