Lee B. Weaver

Joe Brown lived. Like few people do. Joe lived a long, productive, audacious, patriotic, memorable life, a life he shared with the people of this community for more than 50 years.

I can honestly say I never bought into the politicization of the September 11 attacks. Not for a second. Yes, once the facts were known, I realized it was an act of war which required a political and, likely, military response from our country. But I never thought of it as a holy war and I damn sure never thought it justified any fundamental change in the way we live our daily lives.

Just saw a link on Facebook to a news story about how the water/drought situation here is getting worse and worse. We’re already in a water “emergency, but we’re now precariously close to being in what City categorizes as a water “disaster.”