https://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/supervisors-set-to-agree-on-smaller-tax-increase/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/supervisors-set-to-agree-on-smaller-tax-increase/#comment-171822 Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:43:31 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=16265#comment-171822 I must say thanks to the Wave for making it much easier to keep up with news in our county. I for one truly appreciate it, as I do not generally buy a newspaper any longer. I get the majority of my news from some sort of “technology” — and with that I have to comment on our county’s budget decisions: two new vehicles for the sheriff’s office and then insisting our children need to learn how to write with a pen and pencil, insisting we have gone overboard with technology? Tell me what sense this makes. I am not attacking anyone, but I must relay my views on this. It is 2015 and our schools are far behind the rest of our state, let alone how they compare to our country as a whole. The percentage of children with access to modern technology in our county isn’t what you would think; we live in one of the poorest counties in Virginia. How then do these children have access to this technology other than in our schools? Our number one priority should be our FUTURE — the same people that one day will be sitting in the very same seats that our Supervisors and county leaders sit in. Not overpaid county employees, not new police cars, not bailing out poor business decisions by communities, not renovating dilapidated buildings. Make our future smarter, show them they are worth more than a new car. And please stop making Northampton County out to SOUND even more ignorant than it APPEARS to be.

]]>