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You really do not understand how politics, unions and local governments work.....anyway Federal Law restricts who can see the drug results and what can be done with that information...the city must still follow Federal Law if they choose to take federal dollars....

Maybe when he goes back to work he will be protecting your neighborhood and family, not mine. If a firefighter can't control himself even after being caught once I don't want him protecting me. By the way, all firefighters are subject to random drug testing but most pass. I'm glad you support his blatant disregard for the rules and law, but I choose to believe the people protecting our lives and property should be sober.

SMOKING POT, SO WHAT, SO LONG AS HE'S NOT HIGH AT WORK,WHICH HE PROBABLY IS NOT, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH HIM BEING REHIRED. WHAT YOU DO OUTSIDE OF WORK IS YOUR BUSINESS. SO LONG AS YOU DON'T BRING IT TO WORK. F DRUG TESTING. IF ONE HAS TO ALL SHOULD HAVE TOO.

It's no surprise to know Mr. Payton's brother is a member of the command staff for the MFD. Yet another example of high ranking city officials not taking care of business. No wonder the city is going broke...

"significant, measurable progress" - wow, the Mayor likes to keep polishing that turd, doesn't he? And he's not afraid to make up statistics to do it. And the police are monitoring the cameras? Really? Because they don't have anything better to do, right? It's not like there's...you know...crime or anything happening out there. How about you let the taxpaying public monitor the cameras - they'll do a better job of it and they'll do it for free! I have every hope that Mr. Rogers is just what the shelter needs. Clearly good management has been nonexistent at MAS. I also hope that he is willing to work with local rescue groups to help get animals out alive, rather than in a dumpster, which has been SOP at MAS. Listen to the harsh critics, Mr. Rogers - they're not happy, but the information they have can only help you.

Well, she learned it from Hillary Clinton....sigh....

The more important issue is whether you SPAWN outside of marriage. And people are failing to do it the right way, the way that set us above the chimpanzees.

The marriage institution is phasing out out, and so is religion as a whole. Marriage is really just a civil union anyway, between church and state, which does not have o be done 'under god'. People are waking up and realizing that not only is monogamy till death not a realistic ideal, but it is also not natural. Goodbye marriage, hello civil unions.

People management experience is definitely needed at MAS. Many of the employees are NOT doing their jobs and they get away with it. If all the employees were at least half-heartedly doing their work, there would be no starving dogs and no filthy cages. And because th have problems keeping up with all of the stats on every animal they intake (the city actually does admit that, amazingly), they need someone with logistics experience. BUT - the city could hire the best qualified (in all aspects) person in the entire world, yet if Hooks or Wharton do not allow that person to actually DO everything that needs to be done – holding employees accountable when they do not do their jobs, stopping the neglect and abuse (discipline or fire the people committing that abuse), fully utilize their Chameleon software, and really reach out to the community with tangible options for adoption, ownership, spay/neuter – then there will be no changes and it will be the same mess that it has been for years.

She seems more suited to be a Memphis cop than firefighter.