Alva Review-Courier -

If you don't vote yes on an $8 million renovation project your hospital will close. I thought it was sad that the only way to get the funding passed for Share Medical Center years ago was not on the merits of why the upgrades were necessary, but on the blatant use of scare tactics to get it passed. Let me state that I am glad we have a first-rate facility and many excellent people working there. However, the statement "build it and they will come" has not worked out as well as hoped on the doctor front.

This trip down memory lane brought me to an ugly truth about the pool funding debate. I got...