" I bet that there are a ton of letters that are sent in for two cent, but the Citizen chooses not to post them. I don't know how many I have written, but NONE have made it here. "

" Upon your "return", your arrogance will have preceeded you. "

" Brew1234, I am not being a fool about recycling. I am all for it and I wish that everyone did it. However, I am being told by numerous people that I do it all for no reason. I do see separate trucks come and pick up the trash and the recyclables however, I am told they are all combined once they get to the landfill. All the extra steps of breaking down the cardboard and rinsing everything out and making sure the plastic has the right number on the bottom... are all those efforts being done in vain? Am I really doing it all for nothing? I hope that even though I am one person, my recyclables are really being recycled and I am doing my small part to help the environment. Like I said before, the truth... the REAL truth has to be out there somewhere. "

" Supercross season kicks off at 10:00 PM tonight on SPEED channel--you'll never watch football again! BRAAAAAP! =) "

" brew1234,you really don't believe Auburn has a transfer station! What goes in the garbage truck goes to the landfill. If I'm wrong, please let the city respond! "

" Citizen editors, why did you destroy Two cents? It is senseless! "

" I only apply the tag fools to those who refuse to participate in a recycling program. And Lost is your life story not a TV program. "

" I have concerns about my hometown as I have family that live there and I intend to return there when I retire in 4 years. I lived in Auburn for 35 years and if I choose to care about my hometown then what is your problem? I have lived in many places and sometimes that experience helps your perspective. I have seen towns poorly run and others that seem to do it right. I am a student of life and learn new things every day and I don't hesitate imparting my knowledge when I feel it would be useful. "

" I like a politician who can "reach across the aisle," as Andy B recently put it, but I also want one who will NOT be in the pocket or even beholden to corporate interests. I realize this makes it hard for the candidate to raise enough money and also may make it a tough time in office, but we've seen way too many years of pandering to corporate power and the seriously negative effects that has had on our lives. Yes, it would/will be a rough road, but it is way long overdue that we take it and get out from under that moneyed minority's thumb. We need a government by the people and for the people, not for the corporations and PAC interests over our own. And I am all for balancing the budget -- start by ceasing to waste obscene amounts on an unwinnable war, then move to a place where we take care of our own people first and only send foreign aid if we have it to spare, and even then we send it for humanitarian purposes first and not for buying political favor abroad. This approach is totally not business as usual and would undoubtedly cause a huge upheaval - and we need it. Business as usual is running decent, hard-working middle class folks into the ground and isn't really helping the poor either -- it just feeds even more of the pie to those who already have their bucket of money, particularly corporate interests who are despoiling our resources and our lives. OK, enough polemics -- Redskins play at 4:15 and I need to get over to a house with TV to see it (I'm a Giants fan, and hope to see them win their first playoff game in years, but I am also realistic enough to know they aren't Superbowl quality yet -- I like the Redskins, the Packers and the Colts for that, and don't care for the Pats or Cowboys -- so sue me). "

" Farmer's Gal, yeah I saw that--funny! Like Kerry in a hunting jacket! LOL! (It wa a bass) I thought he shoulda "banged his head" a bit more to get the "young vote"! LOL! DD--I hear what you're saying; to tell you the truth I'm kinda leaning toward Obama myself. I thin he's enough of a "Washington outsider" to put an end to all the divisiveness in Capitol Hill. I know what we can do about it--how about a Karl L/DD ticket for 2012? We can start our campaign right here. I might be able to even get us one of those fire trucks to ride around in one the parades?! LOL! C'mon people--call in your "two cents" comments! Even you Mr COULTER! "

" Brew1234, even though you dont actually live here, I know you think you are connected just like those of us that pass its streets daily and shop and all the other crap being a local involves. Us FOOLS as you put it, do have concerns about some local issues, ie: trash. We understand the whole concept of how the financial portion works but if you lived RIGHT here you would wonder about alot of things because MUCH is done behind closed doors. Probably by individuals such as yourself that think Regular Joe Auburn either doesnt have the sense to have a rational opinion or we are just cattle needing decisions to be made for us. I feel that is why the published version of the Two Cents was eliminated also. Rather than try a different approach as I suggested making us post w/our reals names and continue to publish. Decisions were made without the publics input like SO many other things here. Dont you have idiodic concerns Brew1234 where you live or are you in Utopia? "

" To clarify what's going on with Two Cents: Our intention is to keep the feature online. But since Wednesday, we received only a handful of new comments on the Two Cents phone line and e-mail account. Those are the first three comments posted here. As new ones come in, we will update those original Two Cents submissions at the top of this page. If you'd like to make those submissions, please call 253-5311 ext. 292 or email twocents@lee.net. We apologize for the confusion. "

" Romney was a very successful CEO then was a Republican Governor in the Democrat stronghold state of Mass. As Governor he did some great things. The only way you could get anything done in his position is to reach across the aisle. "

" 1. Karl, did you see that clip of Huckabee playing electric guitar? (I'm not a musician myself, but I think it was a bass). How's that for odd-seeming? Politicians will do anything to market themselves based on what their handlers tell them people want. 2. Yes, DD, just like Hilary changes her views so constantly that one is never sure just what her position is. Wolf Blitzer on CNN asked Edwards the other day how he (Edwards) would compare his position on the war to that of Clinton and Obama -- and he said he couldn't say for sure because Clinton's position wasn't clear, she was always changing it -- and he's right. I was glad to hear him speak a bit more firmly against it. 3. RWT -- I posted a very innocuous comment on that story -- and it disappeared too. Very strange. 4. I think The Citizen has been about as clear about Two Cents as Hilary has been about her position on the war. Supposedly they are just eliminating it from the print paper, but then we saw no updates to the column for 2-3 days, and then we got this bunch of recycled comments from the past posted yesterday, and we are seeing weird deletions from non-Two-Cents comments space below articles. I don't know enough about Auburn politics to judge whether Karl has a valid point about pressure from local politicians or not, but something is very screwy with Two Cents -- which is stupid handling by The Citizen since it is such a popular feature. "

" Karl, can you explain to me again? ha ha For the record, I don't want someone who is overly religious running the country either. I want someone who has an agenda to run the country as if it were a business. Most good CEO's don't run their companies at a deficit, allow their underlings to steal, lie, or misrepresent the facts to shareholders. The CEO protects the shareholders from the details that get in the way of the big picture.I am not sure if there is even one candidate--Republican or Democrat that fits the bill in my opinion. Not one of them has the experience necesasary to bring both parties together for the better good of our country. What the heck are we gonna do? "

" If your garbage removal people don't have separate trucks for recycling then they do the sorting at a transfer station. They don't make a profit on your recyclables it just reduces the expense of the entire garbage collection program. You are charged per ton for garbage removal and reducing that tonnage reduces cost. And if you think you get free garbage removal because the city owns a landfill then think again. There are many items that can't be dumped in the landfill and they have to be removed. Also at some point your landfill must close and the cost will be millions of dollars. If you don't separate and handle your recyclables properly the collectors should leave it where it sits. If you don't correct it, you should be cited for a health code violation. Why do you fools make the recycling of trash such a big deal? It's easy and has to be done from an economical and environmental aspect. "

" RWT wrote on Jan 4, 2008 5:57 PM:

" What happened to the story about the woman on S. Seward about sexual abuse? I guess the posts killed the story! Any links? "

What they need to do is dig a little deeper and get the real last name of the offender, I am 100% positive it isnt Bouvia, considering I went to school with person my whole life since I was 5 years old. "

" I don't wash out any jars, and I leave the caps on them, I don't break down any cardboard boxes, either. I just put it all out there, and it goes. I don't care about it after that. But I WOULD like to know how much they make off all that stuff... "

" http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2008/01/03/news/latest_news/latestnews01.txt This is link, but story didn't stay long "

" I want the truth... I am careful about all of my recyclables. I wash out the plastics,glass, and the aluminum and separate everything that needs to be separated. I want to know if I am really wasting my time and if they really all end up in the same place. If so, why am I expected to separate everything? Who do I ask that will tell me the truth? The truth has to be out there somewhere. "

" RWT-- I was just wondering the same thing. I wonder if it has anything to do with who her relatives are.... "

" When are they discontinuing the Two Cents column? Are they also discontinuing it on-line as well? "

" DD, read the post immediately below your last one for an explanation of your previous question. Haven't you been paying attention young man? Didn't you read all that that I wrote about the reasons when I had the letter about the Serenity Prayer? It's not about a "religious guy" winning--all the candidates claim to be religious; you couldn't even get on the ticket if you didn't express some belief in God (and that's sad)--it's about the WAY that Huckleberrry won. By positing himself as the "Christian candidate". By pandering to the Christian vote and subtly-but-unmistakably disparaging Romney's Mormonism. By really making his religion the #1 reason to vote for him. That's a de facto "religious test". THAT is SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN by the Constitution, with good reason. Please don't make me explain why again! :) "

" Everyone was in a flap when Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy was elected, too. "

" To bad that because of a few people we have to loose the Two Cents Colunm. People do have the right of FREE SPEECH, but some go way overboard. "

" I'm not sure if there's any truth to that story about Romney but I do know this. Mitt (which I believe to be short for Mittens) is probably more of a cat lover. "

" What happened to the story about the woman on S. Seward about sexual abuse? I guess the posts killed the story! Any links? "

" I think that its funny how Hillary was quoted as saying that "young America" could not deliver an election. Now that it is being shown that they can, she is tailoring her run towards them. (just like most politicians would) she has a habit of changing her stances like most people change their socks. I think she was shocked by the results of the latest caucus. I think that after a few failures, she will realize that most people see through her fake front, and right through that she is an opportunistic beeeeotch, that will fade into the sunset. Now, why all the alarm because a religious man won this week? "

" What's scary to me is that we have now gone so clearly over the edge of the "Religious test" forbidden by the Constitution. It is plainly evident that Huckabee made his Religion the #1 issue as far as his electability; on most of the other major issues his positions are almost unknown! So the FEC's who voted for him did so mostly because of his religious pandering! You know, Farmer's Gal, if you look at the polls and stories about what other appeal Huckabee allegedly has, it's almost the same as Bush's in the last two elections--that Religious-talkin, "simple-man" likability, you know, the guy who wears an "aw shucks"-type demeanor and can jabber with the "common folk"--GREAT for a preacher, but when are the FEC's going to start voting in COMPETENT people instead of people they think they can confess to? It really make me sick--the inmates are taking charge of the asylum, and I can't understand why nobody is pulling an alarm? "

" TMZ just reported that Mitt had tied his dog to the top of his car in 1983...omg how odd is that story? "

" Is there any truth to the recycling thing posted above? Oh ya, Go Mitt! "

" The thought of an evangelical in the White House scares the bejeezeus out of me too. Religion per se is fine with me, and even though I know you'd disagree, Karl, I think it sometimes does good in the world. But people who run their lives based on faith, and that God will bail you out if you get into trouble (not all Christians are like that, but there are some who ARE, to a scary degree) -- the idea of someone like that running the country is very frightening -- people who believe on faith that they are Right because they have God on their side -- brrrr! "

" Anybody else physically ill that Huckabee won the caucuses by pushing and pandering his religion? Anybody believe me yet when I say that this madness has got to stop? "

" OK, here's a new topic. Who do you really thin was responsible for the demise of "Two Cents"? I say it was a couple of politicians who didn't like the criticisms. Number two would be a few "connected" friends of the paper who managed to sway somebody there; another PC policeman. You know, to me, the nature of the blobs is fairly brutal--I'm on another one--and it's just naive to think it's going to be dinner-table polite conversation. It an outlet, and it's for adults. If you want a nice little chat room, Disney always has the Hanna Montana blog. "

" I like Edwards against the inordinate amount of power we have ceded to corporations over our lives and the environment. I'd like him more if he were more hard-line against the war, but you can't seem to get everything you want in one candidate. He'll operate at a disadvantage since he apparently isn't taking funding from corporate donors -- makes me like him more, but leaves him with less in the coffers for his campaign. "

" Second for Dr. Paul.

Have you still not lookup him up to see what he is about? "

" Re: The Citizen Voting Booth Question:

C'MON CITIZENS. GET OUT AND VOTE. MAKE THE EFFORT. YOU HAVE A VOICE! USE IT! MAKE A DIFFERENCE! YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT! "

" Um, anyone else notice that the "new" Two Cents for today is made up of recycled Two Cents from the past? We can live with Two Cents no longer being in the print edition (doesn't make us happy, but we can live with it), but what is going on with the online Two Cents we were promised would remain? "

" Vote for Rupaul? NEVER "

" Karl, I think because they arent publishing this anymore, they are just gonna let it go until they run out of space. Guess its up to us to change subjects. So how about TV shows, or politics, weather or the Orange? I for one cant wait for Lost to return lol "