A DBS Success Story
I get results.
A while back I mentioned that my local newpaper, the Newnan Times-Herald, has an anonymous forum called “Sound Off.” I’ve been a consistent contributor to same, and I’ve noticed that some of the things I’ve brought up there seem to have been noticed by people who could do something about them. Little piddling stuff, but still…
Many months ago, fed up at seeing sheriff’s deputies in marked patrol cars tailgating and neglecting their turn signals, I submitted a pungent comment about this behavior, and almost immediately it stopped. I amused myself supposing—not very seriously—that Sheriff Yeager saw it and sent down a memo to the patrol division that deputies shouldn’t be doing things they’re supposed to be writing tickets for.
More recently, though, the evidence has been harder to laugh off. Down in Senoia, the second largest town in Coweta County, Main Street has these fancy stop signs at all the intersections, but the street signs themselves, naming the cross streets, disappeared about the time those stop signs went up—over a year ago. Finally a week or so ago I got fed up and sent a “Sound Off” complaining about having to guess which cross street I was at while driving on Main Street. Yesterday I was in Senoia. The fancy street signs are now up and the guessing games are over.
After posting on the filming of The Unseen in Haralson, I decided to nudge the Times-Herald to report on this movie that was being made in the county. Today it’s on the front page.
Yes, it’s true and I admit it. Not only have I exercised undue pressure on the Times-Herald, but on the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicle Safety, the Coweta Sheriff’s Department, and the City of Senoia—and I’ve consistently gotten my way.
Fear me. You know Al Gore does.