More Manufactured News

Although I found all the propaganda in this article interesting and non trust worthy by anyone involved, how many of you actually think a SU Student went to the Daily Times and said they're worried about living off campus?

IMO, this is what I mean by The Daily Times manufacturing news. It's "my belief" that Laren Hughes, (a Staff Writer for the Daily Times) searched long and hard to find someone willing to say they knew enough cases from last year to admit they were scared. So scared in fact that the Daily Times encouraged allowing information to get out to the point that the Students should now buy guns and baseball bats to protect themselves. Yeah, crime is about to go down again, right?

On a more important line and or way of thinking, why the heck did the Daily Times write an article about the poor Students when it is the every day 24/7 residents paying huge taxes in the City that are actually the biggest victims of transient crime in the City? Maybe Officer Mark Tyler was making a bigger point that didn't get recognized by the Daily Times when he stated that crime against the Students is actually down? Could he have meant that crime is up against the residents and down against the Students? That would be my guess anyway. Crime would be down while Students were away for the summer anyway.

Then I noticed the barrage of signs in the City of Salisbury welcoming back all the Students. There are Student Discount Days around the City but what about all the residents that are here all year round supporting these businesses when there are no Students?

OK, so that's somewhat being picky but do think about this for a minute. Salisbury is not Ocean City. This City depends upon the residents picking up the tab for just about everything. The reality is, if it's property being bought out by the University, they're not being taxed on that property. So in reality, your taxes go up and up and up because there's less and less to tax and they have to get the money from someone! That someone is the homeowners/taxpayers of the City and again IMO you're getting screwed!

I'm not a writer by any means and I do bounce around whenever I put something together, so forgive me for that? However, my main goal here is to get the ideas out to all of you and the forum in which you can comment on each issue should help finesse and fine tune what's important here.