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By the time this is published it will have been three weeks since my arrival on Jan. 2. Living in a hotel room is not much of a life, but it has allowed me time to thin and to reect.am getting to know my fellow teammates and taking steps meeting folks in the community. nd then, received a note welcoming me to the community. The gentleman wrote, He sounds lie a perfect fit certainly hope that’s the case.” Zell, so do , which led me to thin that may not meet many of you face-to-face. However, that is no excuse for you not to know something about me.

hat you need to now is where stand on some things. am a true patriot and elieve in our Constitution of the United States. George Washington said, “The power under the Constitution will always e in the people, and am in agreement with Thomas Jefferson when he said, “…instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

elieve in the freedom of the press and am grateful for it. tae it serious enough to defend it to the est of my aility. n my early years heard a speech by John F. Kennedy, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. was a senior in high school and was convinced had to oin the military. t was the least could do to protect our freedoms. hirty years later still sense the obligation and a debt to continue to serve my country and my community for that freedom. s a memer of the newspaper elieve it is my duty to provide you with complete and unbiased reporting of the news in our community. will always strive for accuracy, ut as you now for your forgiveness ecause

will not always achieve it. t will never be my intention to mislead you and will always hold myself accountable and make any correction if any error of fact is called to my attention. The Breckenridge American will continue to do our best to keep you informed regarding the public affairs of our community because we believe that an informed public is our best guarantee of freedom. We will strive to base our reporting of the news on facts, giving both sides equal opportunity to speak and not to take sides. We leave that to the reader. Our opinions, if expressed, will be written as clearly as possible and will only occur on the opinion page.

also elieve you, since we are the people, have a voice and will not deny you the right to publicly express your own views, whether your ideas agree with ours or not. The Breckenridge American will be open to you for publication, over your own signature, of your own views on uestions of pulic interest suect only to the restrictions of libel laws and the standards of common decency. However, we will neither publish nor acknowledge unsigned or anonymous contributions, regardless of their content. While this is only a scratch on the surface of who and what elieve, this is my commitment to you and in time, hope to gain your confidence and your trust.