Dakota Holt Is Free...For Now

Dylan Milam

For those not familiar with the murder of Dylan Milam:

Dylan Wayne Milam

From Dylan's mother: Just to let everyone know... the kid (Dakota Holt) that murdered Dylan is now out. I knew about when he was getting out but wanted to wait to let everyone know before I posted... also seems he was a bad boy while in... seems he called a kid the N word and got beat down for it. lmao.. they even had to wire his jaw shut. If you are a friend of mine or Dylan please repost this on your page. ok D...let the games begin.

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The above is much like an old joke. The teacher was filling out an application for health insurance and was asked, "Have you ever had a nervous breakdown?" Her reply? "No, but watch this space for further development."

Holt has been released five years early. While we hope he stays out of trouble, we aren't betting the ranch on it. Just another subject for the blind man on the corner.

Shoalanda

TD Calls Staggs Grocery "Ramshackle"

The TimesDaily recently profiled growth in the Sweetwater Arts & Entertainment District, albeit never using its presumably correct name.

The Bill Campbell article was informative...up to a point; however, the main surprise of the front page content was the remark about Staggs Grocery. Campbell called it "ramshackle." The word was removed later from online, but still made it into print.

The old building on Huntsville Road is hardly the 360 Grille, but "ramshackle?" We doubt the current owners of Billy Staggs' former grocery will be taking out any advertising soon.

Maybe Bill will soon be going the way or our friend Trevor?

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A tune about Bill Campbell:





Shoalanda

Joe Pampinto & the Concrete Con

From a Muscle Shoals resident:

Did you see the picture that is in the Times Daily that shows the sidewalk project on Sheffield Avenue in Muscle Shoals? I thought you might like to hear the rest of the story. The driveway being worked on in the picture is the city councilman Joe Pampinto's driveway.

The house you see in the background of the picture is my house. Our house was skipped yesterday so the City Councilman's driveway could be done first. This is Muscle Shoals politics at work yet again and they got a picture of it. The construction company has been tearing up to put in sidewalks on Sheffield Avenue for the past week. As they work they systematically go down the line and take out driveways and then fix them back with new concrete. One by one, down the line.

Then they get to our driveway. We come home to find our driveway has been skipped so that the driveway of the city councilman (that lives after us down the line) can be done first. This puts us without a driveway for our THREE vehicles (parking them on the street) for what will end up being at least a week so that the city councilman can park his ONE vehicle in his garage once again.

We talked to the workers and they said they didn't know why they were told to skip ours but they were short-handed so they could only do one driveway. They were told to do that (the councilman's) driveway first. Yes. We are peons in Muscle Shoals. We aren't special with privileges like getting to have things done first because of who we are.

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Joe, we await your comments...



Shoalanda

Larry Stutts Said What?!!!

From the TD:

Stutts (on anti-abortion bill), an obstetrician, said he thinks the bill is a good idea. He’s anti-abortion, and said that when he’s treating a pregnant woman, he has two patients.

Really? How about this comment from March 31, 2015?

My sole intention with Senate Bill 289 was to re-center health care decisions between a patient and her doctor by limiting government mandates.

Our deceitful representative was at one time a veterinarian. Wonder if he told clients not to spay their cats but keep them in a fenced yard?

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A Colbert County mother, a devout Baptist, had two girls. The 16 year-old she counseled on sex, never thinking the 15 year-old was boffing half the males in her class. Upon finding out and regaining consciousness, she took the girl to Larry. What did Larry say?

No birth control. Just tell her to stop having sex. No, we're not kidding.

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Our view is and always has been to counsel children on morality and self-respect. Barring that, counsel on birth control. No abortion necessary. Where are the bills on sponsoring such education in schools?



Shoalanda

The Muskrats Broke What?

From a day-tripper:

Does the Tuscumbia park train run on Saturdays? It looks like their web pages are bad. If you go to springparkal dot com you get a general Muscle Shoals area tourism page. That page gives tuscumbiarailway dot com, which goes nowhere. Have the muskrats broke the Internet?

This link works; however the most obvious is broken.

Train

Now the question: Is the site up to date?

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The winner of the "Pick Your Pate" contest is Joey! He garnered 19 votes. In all, 50 votes were cast. We hope that brought 50 donations to our charities. If you know some brothers or co-workers who would like to compete for charity, let us know.

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Donate to HASRA

Shoalanda

James Irby for Judge?

Florence attorney James Irby has set up a Facebook page to test the waters concerning a run for Lauderdale Circuit judge--no word on which party. Link!

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From L. Stone: If the state can't afford to house the mentally ill can we at least give them UAB football tickets?

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Phillip Pettus still wants his superintendent bill to pass? Just think if he had put that much energy into something worthwhile...

Shoalanda

Why Even "Print" It to Begin With?

Yesterday we published a comment from a Lexington reader. It's our policy to publish all comments as long as they are not vulgar or libelous. If we see an error in the comment, we point it out. Another local blogger, one who does not publish all comments, has criticized us for, as he called it, "printing" the comment.

Besides letting everyone have a voice here (not to mention the main thrust of the comment concerned Lexington), we felt this was an opportunity to correct a misconception:

Facebook Page (From November '14)?

This page, no matter who originally created it, has been taken down, as well it should be if Mr. Holden did not authorize it. 

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What many readers don't know is the young lady sent home from school over her hair is a relative of a former school board member. Discrimination in reverse?

But here's the kicker...even though the young woman had worn the same color hair for three years, the principal and assistant principal insisted she leave school immediately after being cited for the color. No, gentle readers, that's not the lack of mercy in this tale from last fall. The young woman's mother was forced to leave the hospital where her step-son was having surgery. No delays! Heil the Admins!

And you wonder why the family hired an attorney?

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Our policy is to publish your comment no matter if we feel it correct or not. We obviously have the right to rebut your comment. We do not consider ourselves "benevolent dictators," but a facilitator. 

Neither will we ever publish your name if we disagree with you as some bloggers have in the past. We welcome all comments; happy reading!

Shoalanda