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B-10 Opinion Wednesday, Februar y 5, 2020 The Press-Dispatch Consider the implica- tions of this passage upon your life from John's Gos- pel, "Jesus said to Martha, 'Your brother Lazarus will rise again.' Martha said to Him, 'I know that he will rise again in the resurrec- tion at the last day.' Jesus said to her, 'I am the resur- rection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? ' Do you believe this? Then you have hope! Prayers for those who are bereaved and need com- fort. Think about it! Continued from page 9 FAITH Court Report FELONY Pike County Circuit Court Kolby Alan Jenkins charged with count I operating a motor vehicle af- ter forfeiture of license for life, a level 5 felony, and count II operating a mo- tor vehicle while intoxicated. Dalton B. Helsley charged with maintaining a common nuisance - con- trolled substances, a level 6 felony. Brad Hardiman charged with count I possession of methamphetamine, a lev- el 6 felony, and count II driving while suspended, prior. Dennis G. Clark charged with oper- ating a vehicle after being an habitual traffic offender, a level 6 felony. Jeremy B. Helsley charged with maintaining a common nuisance - con- trolled substances, a level 6 felony. Victoria V. Helsley charged with maintaining a common nuisance - con- trolled substances, a level 6 felony. Mark Hanselman charged with count I resisting law enforcement, a level 6 felony, and count II public in- toxication. Dakota Steven Phillips charged with theft, a level 6 felony. TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOR Pike County Circuit Court Carlos E. Miranda charged with knowingly or intentionally operating a motor vehicle without ever receiv- ing a license. Joshua Hopf charged with domes- tic battery. Roy L. York charged with operating a vehicle with a schedule I or II con- trolled substance or its metabolite in person's body. Andrew Kyle Blackgrave charged with disorderly conduct. Chafin Davis charged with disorder- ly conduct. Jordan Hightshoe charged with dis- orderly conduct. Robbie L. Davis charged with disor- derly conduct. Logan T. McCandless charged with leaving the scene of an accident. William Ray Kohlhouse charged with operating a vehicle with a sched- ule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in person's body. CIVIL Pike County Circuit Court Crown Asset Management, LLC sues Norma Creech on complaint. Energy Plus Credit Union sues Fali- cia Hayes on complaint. Professional and Business Collec- tions, LLC sues Eric Miller on com- plaint. Professional and Business Collec- tions, LLC sues Travis McCandless and Stacey McCandless on complaint. Mariner Finance, LLC, successor in interest to Personal Finance Company, LLC sues Matthew Hall on complaint. Fifth Third Bank, NA sues Darla Da- vis, Old National Bank, Asset Accep- tance, LLC et al on complaint. Wells Fargo Bank, NA sues Jeremy G. Boyd on complaint. Natasha Brucken sues Cole Bruck- en for dissolution of marriage. Thomas Tharp sues Malinda Tharp for dissolution of marriage. SMALL CLAIMS Pike County Circuit Court Pike County School Corporation sues Melissa Hendrixson on com- plaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Cassie Loveless on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Aaron Hall on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Kathryn Franklin on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Daniel Caudill on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Ricky Kiper on complaint. Pike County School Corporation sues Travis Atkins on complaint. INFRACTIONS Pike County Circuit Court Dolan E. Vowels charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Jason R. Wagner charged with oper- ating with expired plates. Jason K. Opel charged with speed- ing. Sarah G. Belmore charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Gage D. Blount charged with speed- ing, exceeding 55 mph. Jordan A. Pauw charged with speed- ing. Melissa K. Caddick charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Caitlen M. Lamarche charged with speeding. Cody M. Gathright charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Justin A. Gordon charged with driv- ing while suspended. Natasha D. Krietemeyer charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Joseph M. Welton charged with speeding. Todd R. Yates charged with speed- ing, exceeding 70 mph. Janeen R. Grooms charged with speeding, exceeding 30 mph. Kayla R. Knust charged with speed- ing. Tristan A. Lombardo charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Shelby R. Vaughn charged with speeding. Cassandra L. Morton charged with speeding. John A. Roe charged with speeding. George R. Powell charged with speeding. Prakhyath V. Bujimalla charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Omar I. Shaikh charged with seat- belt violation. Jamie A. Hunter charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. Lawrence C. Dent, Jr. charged with child restraint system violation. Dakota L. Hutton charged with speeding, exceeding 55 mph. Philycia A. Lowrance charged with speeding, exceeding 70 mph. new device could do, and bingo, I found out it could scan and email documents. I know It's not a big deal for the younger genera- tion to do these things. I tried going through a se- ries of prompts, emailed documents to an office, and when I called the of- fice secretary to check if they had received my doc- uments, I heard the sweet- est reply… "Yes, we got them." I high fived myself, and felt that even though I have reached my seventh decade of life, I still got it. Meaning, I could still par- ticipate in the complex world of electronic devic- es doing facetime, email- ing, texting, downloading, uploading, live streaming, etc, etc. I don't tweet, don't do In- stagram, I don't bother to doing more things than I have to. For the moment I think I'm content. How amazing indeed what I had seen through the years from the devel- opment of telegraph, to the telephone, to the cellu- lar phone, to satellite com- munications, and to what- ever is next to emerge. Now I hear a lot about 5G tech- nology or the 5th genera- tion wireless technology which apparently is faster and cleaner. This subject is a whole chapter in itself so I'll quit here. • • • Humor of the week. I've shared this before but I still chuckle when I re- call this. There was a con- vention in Las Vegas held by electronic experts. Ap- parently the scientists did a research from the differ- ent countries they repre- sented. The ones who came from China said there was evidence after much dig- ging through ancient sites they found their ancestors had used copper to trans- mit electric energy. Not to be out done, the Japanese reported their an- cestors used brass for this technology. The scientists from Egypt said they dis- covered iron was the ma- terial their ancestors used for communication trans- mission. Then the scientists from the Philippines said they just kept digging deep in- to the possible communi- cations sites and could not find any materials to share. That's when they said their theory is that their early ancestors were the first to use wireless technology for communication. You just can't beat that idea. Have a great week Continued from page 9 PHONE vote, the outcome of presi- dential races would always be decided by a few high- ly populated states, name- ly California, Texas, Flori- da, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, which con- tain 134.3 million people, or 41% of our population. Presidential candidates could safely ignore the in- terests of the citizens of Wyoming, Alaska, Ver- mont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Dela- ware. Why? They have on- ly 5.58 million Americans, or 1.7% of the U.S. popu- lation. We would no lon- ger be a government "of the people." Instead, our government would be put in power by and account- able to the leaders and cit- izens of a few highly popu- lated states. It would be the kind of tyranny the fram- ers feared. It's Congress that poses the greatest threat to our liberties. The framers' dis- trust is seen in the nega- tive language of our Bill of Rights such as: Congress "shall not abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, and shall not be violated, nor be de- nied." When we die and if at our next destination we see anything like a Bill of Rights, we know that we're in hell because a Bill of Rights in heaven would suggest that God couldn't be trusted. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Continued from page 9 TYRANNY America was founded. When Thomas was sworn in, af- ter enduring what no man or wom- an should have to endure in his con- firmation hearings, in his speech he alluded to Psalm 30, which reads: "I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. You refused to let my enemies triumph over me. ... Weep- ing may go on all night, but joy comes with the morning." What better way to pay tribute to America and black history than go- ing to see this important new film? Star Parker is president of the Cen- ter for Urban Renewal and Education and author of the new book "Necessary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This is Good News for America," available now at starparker.com Continued from page 9 THOMAS Continued from page 9 OIL oil prices skyrocketing— but didn't. In September, at- tacks on Saudi Arabian fa- cilities briefly took 5.7 mil- lion barrels per day offline. Last spring, a drone strike shut down a Saudi Arabian pipeline, and two oil tank- ers were attacked. Further- more, Venezuela's econom- ic collapse and sanctions on Iran have removed signifi- cant sources of supply. And in the U.S., tropical cyclone activity in the Gulf Coast the past two years threatened both extrac- tion and refining. While some supply disruptions caused prices at the pump to increase, including a 20 % bump after the Saudi installation attacks, there was no prolonged period of price spikes. As Ashley Petersen, se- nior oil market analyst for Stratas Advisors, told news outlet A xios, "The U.S. oil boom is the primary rea- son nobody is seriously discussing triple-digit oil prices even with every- thing that is going on and went on this summer." This certainly wasn't al- ways the case. As C.K. Hickey wrote in Foreign Policy, "Previous Middle East crises result- ed in greater disruptions of the oil market. The Au- gust 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait led to a surge in the price of oil from $15 a bar- rel that month to $40 by October ($ 65.68 adjusted for inflation as of 2019). In February 2003, the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq once again led to a spike in prices to nearly $40 a bar- rel, or around $55 in to- day's dollars, a level that hadn't been seen since the Gulf War." Yet, America's signifi- cant increase in produc- tion has fundamentally shifted the global energy landscape. Last fall, for the first time in 75 years, the U.S. was a net exporter of crude oil and refined petro- leum products. Through the power of free enter- prise, imports of crude oil to the U.S from Persian Gulf Countries hit record lows. American producers are exporting more crude oil than the entire country of Iran produces. Nevertheless, so long as consumers are filling up their cars with gas, the U.S. will never be fully en- ergy independent. And the Middle East will likely re- main a larger part of the global oil market well in- to the future. But thanks to America's energy revo- lution, we're in a much bet- ter situation economically and geopolitically than we were when President Nix- on made those comments 46 years ago. Nick Loris is an econo- mist who focuses on ener- gy, environmental, and reg- ulatory issues as the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow. SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY? LET US KNOW AT 812-354-8500! of of Excellence Age Age in business in business John Heuring Advertising Manager Cell: 812-789-3671 Email: ads@pressdispatch.net Cindy Petty Ad Sales Consultant Cell: 812-664-2359 Email: ads@sgstartimes.com Pam Lemond Ad Sales Consultant Office: 812-354-8500 Email: plemond@pressdispatch.net FAX to 812-354-2014 EXCELLENT! YOUR BUSINESS IS DEADLINE: FEB. 12 • PUBLISHED: FEB. 19 The Press-Dispatch wants to show Pike County just how long your business has served the area in a special section entitled "Age of Excellence." 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