Cherokee Springs Secret
This has nothing to do with archives. It has everything to do with trusting those who claim to serve.
My wife and I have lived in Louisville for the past six years, but we used to live in the Cherokee Springs area of South Carolina. The area is between Spartanburg and Boiling Springs. We still have friends there, and we are still interested in the area. I still like the area, and I hate to see the people there taken advantage of by entities designed to serve them. That appears to be what’s happening according to a new blog, VoteCherokeeSprings.com. It appears, if the blogger is correct, that the Cherokee Springs Fire Board is trying to sneak in a new referendum in order to raise the property taxes by 7 mils. The referendum will not appear on the ballot for the general election. It will occur on a different date in order to hide its existence from the general public. Classy.
I used to vote at CSFD, and if I still did, I would oppose this type of thing vehemently. I detest property taxes anyway, but I really detest them when people work to sneak them in. If the blog above is the whole story, it sounds like someone (ie. WSPA, Spartanburg Herald Journal) really needs to ask some serious, public questions of Commissioner Easler — like this week!
I just wanted to mention a couple of things in relation to preserving blogs. First, I wanted to thank Marty Duren, formerly of the influential Baptist blog 