I have mixed emotions about recreational marijuana. It will bring millions of dollars of tax money to the state. If the money was used to care for drug-related problems, homeless people, the underprivileged, or even for education, it would be great.

You remember when horseracing and gambling money was going to save our education system. What the lawmakers did was just give the monies to education, then short the budget for education on their government funds, so nothing was gained.

I suspect our leaders already have their pet projects and graft spots in place for the new funds if it passes. The downside for me is users tend to become lazy with heavy use and cannot get any job that requires drug tests. It will also lighten the load for officers, not having to mess with users, and focus more on meth and crime. If it passes, anyone caught selling it illegally should be dealt with harshly. The main thing is to vote, vote, vote.

I had a guy ask me if I had read anywhere about the newly hired city manager's qualifications and previous employment. He said all he found in the paper was he had been hired, and what they were going to pay him (over $120,000). I never found any article saying why he was qualified to run our city, but when I get a minute, I will ask around and see if anyone will give me the list. Unless it is an industrial secret, when I get it I will let all the curious people in on his history. As long as he hasn't done one to five for embezzlement, I guess he will suit me.

There was an article about a Chick-fil-A that would let no one under 16 in the restaurant without a parent. It was the gathering place for kids after school. They were very rude, loud and sometimes vulgar, bothering the paying customers. After warnings the policy went into effect. While this means the young people will have to find other places to gather, loitering is usually not allowed in most businesses.

What worries me is why the parents allow their kids to have such behavior. We seem to have a generation of rude young people. Many are well behaved, but they are not the ones we see. Do the troublemakers have parents who don't care about the kid's behavior? My parents didn't go out of the way to teach us manners, but by example and the knowledge if we didn't catch on, the tamarack tree had lots of knowledge in it that made us good children, teens, grownups.

Let's all work on making generations of well-mannered people.

Let's all be safe out there and God bless.