Did the Boone County Commission make the right decision about the courthouse murals?

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Did the Boone County Commission make the right decision about the courthouse murals?

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The commission voted Thursday to remove the murals from the courthouse after complaints that the scenes depicted included violence and slavery.

The commission voted Thursday to remove the murals from the courthouse after complaints that the scenes depicted included violence and slavery. Show Less

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Some defended the murals, saying their intent wasn't racist or intimidating but to depict local history, even if it is ugly.

Some defended the murals, saying their intent wasn't racist or intimidating but to depict local history, even if it is ugly. Show Less

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Pamela Stephens

The murals are a part of history! If we keep taking down/and or removing statue's and Murals why teach history in schools!!! This is getting totally out of hand!!

Tim Montee

why take them down, it is history that needs to be seen and remembered the way it was and not the way they want you to see it, or not see it...

Border Ruffian

If the paintings are offensive, then you'd have to count George Caleb Bingham's famous Order Number 11 painting as offensive too.

Donna S

History is HISTORY!!!

Max DeYoung

Trying to sweep history under the door is no way to improve our Nation. The Boone County Commission is a failure.

Mike S

Examining our past is SUPPOSED to feel uncomfortable. This is where the urge to grow and change comes from. It's the same sort of whitewashing of the past as the fake issue of Critical Race Theory.

Max DeYoung

If these paintings were painted today, there would be drive by shootings, tent cities on the sidewalks, and needles and human waste everywhere. We don't want the truth to be exposed. It might hurt someone's feelings.

Harry D

Woke fools listening to bigger woke fools all trying to out virtue signal each other. Our entire country is screwed. The silent majority of hard working conservatives can be silent no longer we must politically organize and fight back. "Let's go Brandon!"

Max DeYoung

In regard to the liberal thought process I can only say; Let's Go Brandon!!!!!!

Laura Davidson

What does it matter? They will do what they want regardless.

Melanie Dix

Because the people in the painting are white not black.

Are you spending more on gifts this Christmas?

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Experts predict spending will be up this year after the pandemic and associated job losses suppressed last year's spending.

Experts predict spending will be up this year after the pandemic and associated job losses suppressed last year's spending. Show Less

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However, high inflation means household budgets are strained by higher prices this year.

However, high inflation means household budgets are strained by higher prices this year. Show Less

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Do you think inflation is a significant problem?

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Do you think inflation is a significant problem?

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Republicans are using rising prices as a political issue, pointing to Democratic policies as the reason for hikes.

Republicans are using rising prices as a political issue, pointing to Democratic policies as the reason for hikes. Show Less

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Will Mason

It is not "transitory' or caused by the pandemic. It is being caused by idiots in Washington. And it hurts already.

Max DeYoung

For most people it is, especially those who work for a living and those on fixed incomes. But Joe Biden doesn't care, he still thinks he is a truck driver, which he never has been, but his dementia says otherwise.

Vernon Taylor

Of course it is. Why even ask? To say otherwise is a suspension of disbelief. Such as to say we have a functioning president.

Larry Sabulsky

inflation is always a problem, but this one has been caused by the ignorant actions of Brandon's administration.

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Democrats say the inflation pressures are temporary and that prices will stabilize.

Democrats say the inflation pressures are temporary and that prices will stabilize. Show Less

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Stephen Stewart

Eclectic come from the Greek: To select. Ancient philosophers who were relative in their thinking of doctrines. What library do you use? Work Cited. “Eclectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eclectic. Accessed 2 Dec. 2021.

Vernon Taylor

Eclecticism is distinct from syncretism, the attempt to reconcile or combine systems, in that it does not attempt to resolve the contradictions between them. Therefore, to deny inflation exists, does not resolve the fact that it does in fact exist.

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Did the Boone County Commission make the right decision about the courthouse murals?

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73% No No

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Are you spending more on gifts this Christmas?

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Do you think inflation is a significant problem?

88% Yes Yes

12% No No

88% Yes

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