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The Rant

Forget the dang roundabouts. Repave some streets!

It’s a sad day when people think a new Wal-Mart will enrich their lives.

Instead of building fancy new facilities, how about hospitals spending their millions to thoroughly clean existing structures — and keeping them that way.

Inquiring minds want to know why other county commissioners voted yes on the Wal-Mart store in Hixson when the commissioner from that district voted no?

I sure hope a freak gust of wind doesn’t blow the giant crane parked on the Ridge Cut overpass onto traffic below.