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Children in the paper sitting on top of their deer they killed.

underdog2

Posted 12:05 pm, 11/02/2014

They have driven them selves out of business with their unwillingness to report the news and do follow ups, interviews, hard nose investigating. I can name you numerous events and reporting they could have done and should have done. With good readership ad prices would go up and be a win win for all. It really behooves me as to their motives. They have had several stories laid in their laps only to sit back with their feet on the desk. What they are dong aint working.

Fins

Posted 12:02 pm, 11/02/2014

But everyone knows that bad news sells. You want to sell more papers, report what's really going on

Onlyinashe

Posted 11:37 am, 11/02/2014

The paper's job is to sell ads and maximize the profits of their owners. They accomplish this by increasing the readership of the paper. Good news"views" social events kids in the paper are all attempts to sell another paper. Minimal true news reporting is performed, so you don't get much that way.

The wide availability of the Internet and the basic ability to use it has driven many local rags out of the business.

Trucker4Life

Posted 8:29 am, 11/01/2014

Jefferson Post (Ashe County Enquirer) and Mountain Times (High Country Star) neither one are worth the ink it takes to print them. I could really care less about who's brat killed what deer, or who's granny has sewn what quilt. If they going to print news, then print news. But all the BS they print is basically just useless garbage.. Kind of like the bean counter and snow storms.. WTH? That isn't news, it's merely something to fill the page along with the rest of the garbage .....

CooperFarms

Posted 10:08 pm, 10/31/2014

Gutting a deer is rather easy. If you hang it right and put a five gallon bucket in just the right place, it will catch everything. You have to be careful to not cut the bowel or intestine or you get some warm sweet odor.

Trucker4Life

Posted 9:57 pm, 10/31/2014

Do they wish to receive a gold star or just a cookie for their efforts?

Joseph T.

Posted 9:51 pm, 10/31/2014

underdog2 (view profile)

Posted 9:11 am, 10/31/2014

Its that time of year when adults drag their children to the woods and either shoot a deer for them or they shoot a deer. I am unsure if anyone ever checks to see if the gun the kid has was even the gun used to kill the deer. What really pisses me off is the paper boys in counties all around post photos of a kid sitting up on a deer they presumably killed.
Are these kids hanging around for the gutting and cleaning? I bet not

My kids do

InsideMan

Posted 9:14 pm, 10/31/2014

Secretagent, I don't mind people getting raises. But the issue is that this time it was another expense, just like all the others you listed. To increase payroll by 4% while having huge waste in every department, and robbing the fund balance to make ends meet is not good management. some might think the commissioners were just trying to buy votes.

GoAshe

Posted 9:03 pm, 10/31/2014

I removed a few posts that were off topic and/or trolling.

underdog2

Posted 8:59 pm, 10/31/2014

Trucker4Life (view profile)

Jefferson Post (Ashe County Enquirer) is nothing more than a gossip paper for the blue haired old ladies to swap recipes and talk about what their neighbor done.... It's not even worth the ink it takes to print it!!!


Congratulations clodhopper!!! We finally agree.

usnavy3po

Posted 8:49 pm, 10/31/2014

Trucker I always look for your posts. Most are quite funny. Thanks for ur contribution.

secretagent

Posted 8:45 pm, 10/31/2014

I don't mind the employees getting raises. I just feel that no one is really doing anything to reduce/eliminate the waste. Expanding the airport. Continuing to operate Family Central. There are too many programs/project staying busy (or appearing to be busy) doing lots of things that really don't need to be done. And I really do believe that the welfare system and handout healthcare systems etc have a whole lot of people receiving benefits that they don't deserve. Yes, there are a lot of people deserving and needing help, and they should have it and we should not complain about supplying it. But, I feel that there is a good bit of waste. And it seems to me to be entirely too easy to wind up getting considered to be disabled when in reality folks are able but just not willing to do for themselves. Yes indeed the papers could do some digging and try a little under cover watching. There is really only one real newspaper here anyway anymore and it's initials are not JP.

Trucker4Life

Posted 8:41 pm, 10/31/2014

As for the deer pictures, I'm in favor of giving the guns to the deer and really making it a sporting event!!

Trucker4Life

Posted 8:40 pm, 10/31/2014

Jefferson Post (Ashe County Enquirer) is nothing more than a gossip paper for the blue haired old ladies to swap recipes and talk about what their neighbor done.... It's not even worth the ink it takes to print it!!!

underdog2

Posted 8:33 pm, 10/31/2014

I have seen somewhere that the register of deeds turns budget money back in each year. Anyone know how much she has turned in?

InsideMan

Posted 8:22 pm, 10/31/2014

Secretagent, the waste that our commissioners have been spending is just outrageous. It's a shame the newspaper won't do the work and tell the voters. We all like a raise. But did it really make sense to give all county employees raises while running a deficit?

Backwater

Posted 7:57 pm, 10/31/2014

Hey guys I know where there is a fresh Roadkill today,if you are wanting it.

secretagent

Posted 7:49 pm, 10/31/2014

Inside, you asked how is it possible? I know that was you know the answer to that. We have been complaining about the waste and less than responsible ways that the Mouth Breathers have been running things. I don't know if the register of deeds office needs that many employees or not. But I do think that such things do need scrutiny. There are lot of places where offices, programs and projects are over funded. Lots that are underutilized which equates to over funding. Things just get set on cruise control until election time and then the scramble begins. Nothing historically happens about it though.

InsideMan

Posted 7:09 pm, 10/31/2014

Fin absolutely nailed the real problem. There are many problems in the current system, and the newspaper has to be aware of them, but they don't have the guts to write real articles and to ask the big questions. Like for one, they should ask the current commissioners and the current register of deeds, why is the Ashe county RoD office have such a large budget? They have more employees than larger counties with much busier offices, and spend more than RoD offices in counties with more than double our size. How is that possible?

underdog2

Posted 4:57 pm, 10/31/2014

Sovereign citizen = Terrorist

You keep talking to people water boy, you are only hurting your man.

.btw what has winters promised you water boy?

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