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Westmoreland controller blasts commissioner for failure to meet campaign pledge


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Westmoreland Commissioner Doug Chew on Thursday defended his decision to withhold a promised donation to fund the county’s drug court program.
During his campaign for county commissioner in 2019, Chew, a first-term Republican, pledged to donate 60% of his salary to help fund drug court. After questioned by county Controller Jeffrey Balzer about that pledge during a public meeting Thursday, Chew conceded he had not done so.
“You made the promise, and you broke the promise,” Balzer said.
Chew said he discussed drug court funding with the two judges who oversee the program and claimed he was told his donation was not needed. ....

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Sounding off: More guns means more shootings


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As people are tiring of covid, the mass gatherings are resuming, and so are the mass shootings. No other country has this problem, and no other country is so saturated with guns. Coincidence?
I hear all the gun advocates’ arguments and scoff, like guns don’t kill, people do. It’s as silly as saying lawnmowers don’t cut grass. They always talk about the rights of law-abiding citizens, but all murderers were once law-abiding citizens.
No matter what specious arguments the gun people can fabricate, the fact remains that more guns inevitably lead to more shootings. Simple math. It’s amazing that so many people can be willfully blind to this obvious fact. ....

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