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Episode Date: January 11, 2026

Greg, Mr. Outdoors from Rogue Weather has the outdoor report, and a refresher course on how to behave when cops are pointing lots of guns at you...it happened to him TWICE in his life. Later a catch up on the Talent library - Kevin Keating from the board.

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And great, we appreciate you from rogueweather.com. And I just want to ask you something about outdoor wildlife before we continue on here. And it has to do with possums, Greg. And we got a fat possum that's coming here and taking cat food that I'm trying to leave for my Farrell-Darrel cat outside. And so how well – I was amazed the other day. I thought that I was going to be really smart and put the food bowl for Punky, even though I'm starting to nickname of Farrell Daryl up there. I put it up on a table. And so I'm thinking, okay, that fat –

fat possum is very awkward. Doesn't look like you could do anything. That son of a gun climbed up on the table and ended up getting to the food that I was leaving for Farrell Daryl. And he's a fat guy too. And I'm just like, man, I'm getting concerned that my budget for my feraldaryl cat is, you know, being doubled because of the fat possum. What do you do to get rid of a possum, do you know? Is there anything? You pretty much have to trap them, and especially with them, once they know where a food source is, you're not going to get them to quit hanging around. And honestly, throughout Medford, we've got possums and raccoons everywhere. So if you're feeding cats or dogs outside, and you don't take those food dishes away and put them inside, you will be feeding possums and raccoons. And that will explain why you're looking at your dog or your cats and going, well, you guys are eating a lot of food and you're not putting any weight on.

Well, if you just keep observing the food dish as soon as it's dark, and sometimes when dawn's breaking, it's getting light outside, you will see you're feeding possums, raccoons. you may be unwittingly feeding a coyote depending on where you live. You know, so, yeah, Mother Nature, those things, they will take advantage of every easy food source they can get. And, yeah, you put it up on a table thinking, well, that'll fix that. Well, no, possums are actually pretty decent climbers when they want to be. And a food source is definitely something that's going to make them want to climb.

So your solution here is one of three things. Know that if you're putting food out for Farrell-Darrel, and I prefer that over Ponkey, that's a great name. If you're putting food out for Farrell-Darrel, you may as well go ahead and make it cheap, because if you leave that dish out, exactly what else you're feeding. Now, you've spotted the possum where you live, I would suspect you're also feeding raccoons. you may not know about, and you may also be giving a coyote, you know, a fill up on food as well. Okay. Haven't seen the coyote yet.

All right. Okay. So a point well taken. What are the enemies of possums? Because the one thing I noticed is that the cat does not seem to want to get involved or fight the possum. Yeah. And we've got the same thing happening here, you know, because Terry is the original crazy cat lady. So yeah, we're feeding one in particular, but we do have several cats in the neighborhood that know,

hey, we can get food over here. Well, our possums and raccoons here have figured that out as well. Possums are actually on the menu for a lot of things. Possums and cats seem to get along pretty well. Raccoons and cats, you can't always say that. No. We haven't noted any issues here between the raccoons and. our outdoor kitties, as we referred to them. But when I lived on the aunt and uncle's ranch

at an Eagle Point, that was a different story altogether. We had some occurrences with cats that wound up having to take them to the vet, where they tangled with raccoons. And one in particular, we were concerned for a while that one of our favorite kitties may wind up being paralyzed because of a raccoon bite very near the spine, but eventually, you know, the swelling went down, the trauma went down, and the cat recovered and had use of her back legs. Yeah, well, raccoons are nasty animals, in my opinion. Just, you know, you have to be careful about that. Now, the thing is, I'll go out, and I was trying to chase off the fat possum the other day,

and he just looks up at me, and it's like the ugliest face in nature, as far as I picture. Just an ugly face, and, you know, I don't even know if possum mothers love the look of a possum, face. But I'm looking at this and he just kind of opens his mouth like, you don't like that. And anyway. When they're babies, when they're big cuteness very rapidly as they become adults, and you're also learning something else and something I can tell you from survival point of food or view, possums is one of the easiest protein food sources you can get because it does not require much, if anything, to kill a possum. And in the southeastern U.S., of a delicacy, so...

Well, by the way, speaking which, do you know how many rednecks it takes to eat a possum? I honestly don't know. I haven't heard Foxworthy's calculations. No, and it takes two. It takes one to eat possum and the other one to watch for the cars. Well, yeah, you know, I mean, honestly, there's a lot of... of ways you can go with that. But yeah, survival courses, and I've taken some here in the Northwest. Yeah, I know. You can eat poss. I'll tell you what. So then maybe I won't worry about feeding the possum for right now. And then if things go to hell, then I'll know, okay, that's it. Now, you're going to be dinner after we fed you all this not-so-special kitty. So let's get back then.

By the way, there is one very redeeming quality about possums, and I'm not sure if people know this. they're actually an ally that way. And then the other thing is it's virtually impossible to tell what sex a possum is because in North America. That's it. Okay. Yep. Good notes. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Outdoors.

Let's talk about what's going on with the outdoors. It looks like it's going to be relatively what warming, dry period over the next week. What do you say here for the next week or two? Warming will be a relative. It is definitely going to be dry. However, that's going to give us exactly what we're seeing this morning. With the very dense freezing fog that's out there, we have a freezing fog advisory, actually in effect through 10 a.m. on both sides of the cascades.

So when you're having to leave earlier in the morning for work and school, you better have the extra time. Better be aware there's probably going to be some slick conditions, especially overpasses culverts, how it impacts flights in and out of the airport. But, yeah, you just, you kind of go from, okay, now we've got the rain and the snow to now we're going to have low clouds and fog in the valleys. And then, of course, up in the mountains, well, it's going to be really sunny skies. And unfortunately, for Mount Ashland, you know, it looks like we're probably at least eight days now away

from the next potential for any kind of snow, and they've got a 22-inch base up there. The thing that may save them is northern exposure on Mount Ashland, except the majority of the area they do have open right now with lifts running on that mountain, and they don't have snowmaking. Meanwhile, down at Mount Shasta, they're reporting 44 inches at the top of Douglas.

However, down in the base area, They've got much less than that. And last night they had their snowmaking cranked up. I put pictures from both ski areas up, and now they're running their snow guns because they've got a good temperature profile. They've got snow on the ground. Now they can use their snowmaking, which is everything on the marmot chair and down in the base area. They are almost, I'm going to say, 80% southern exposure. and over the course of the next nine days, that may prove very problematic for them,

but at least they're getting a temperature profile where they can crank up and make snow. Okay, very good. As far as what we're looking at here, it's going to be a good seven, eight days at least. Well, you're going to give me a chance to go up and get some work done on some of the mountain sites, though, so that's good. Thank you. Oh, yeah. For you, this is a godsend opportunity because you'll have very favorable weather conditions to get up to all of your mountain top sites and get some work done with the sun out, without wind blowing,

without, you know, literally take away all the typical things you encounter at this time of the year trying to get to places like Nugget and Tallow Box and all of those. Yeah. All right. Well, very good. We'll have more with Greg Roberts here just a minute. Greg Roberts, Oregon, and make that rogueweather.com. It's all sponsored by Oregon Truck and Auto Authority.

on Airway Drive and Medford Outdoor Report. We wanted to kind of shift focus here in just a minute here, Greg, because I know that you have, there's been a lot of talk about what happened in Minnesota, of course, in Portland yesterday. All the sock puppet liberal organizations are coming out unglued about the ICE law enforcement actions. And they just don't want law enforcement. I think it's really what we're looking at right now. That being said, there are lessons that could be learned when you have encounters with police

sticking guns in your face. And you actually survive one of those. right? I just want to make sure. Two of those. Okay, so he's going to tell us about the experience and what happened. In fact, one of those experiences here in Southern Oregon, okay? All coming up.

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And, of course, obviously she was all implanted up that protest community there, that she is very scared, realizing what is probably going to be happening, that she's going to be arrested, and then hits the gas. Is it about trying to kill the ICE agent? It is about trying to get away. I think there's wiggle room on each side of this thing. And I think that kind of the truth is probably between the mean extremes of its murder and it's a brave law enforcement officer defending his life, you know, that kind of thing.

What do you think, huh? I'm thinking there's a little bit of wiggle room on both sides on this, really. their life. And one thing that is now becoming abundantly clear, you have an officer who already had the experience of being dragged. They're staying for over 100 yards. Yeah, and he was in the hospital for a while getting fixed up. He took some bad injuries over there. So that fact to remember what they're seeing with these videos, none of them that I have seen,

wing it down trying to prove their point. Here's the thing, though, and I'm going to talk now about both of my experiences, circumstances. My grandfather pounded it into my head from an early age, even if you think they're going to do. And then as I got older, he had at this point, because I went with him to court one time on a traffic ticket, he got in Shady Cove, and my grandfather was one of the most brilliant non-that court. And by the time he got done, the Shady Cove cop, this is back in the 70s, and Shady Cove had their own police department, the Shady Cove cop was so mad. His face was purple, and the judge was laughing. Yeah, so he took him apart in court. He took him apart in court, essentially. Yeah, and that's the best place to take the argument. I mean, fighting with

a cop with law enforcement out of the open doesn't usually win well, okay? Exactly. And my grandfather explained that as we were going home. He goes, I could have been a jerk and tried to argue this with the cop and fight with the cop out in the field. But you don't win in those circumstances. You take it to court, okay? Yeah. So that's the first lesson I learned.

Now, you were telling me, though, there was one time we had a SWAT situation here in Southern Oregon. You were dragged out of your car at gunpoint, right? Going to your home? And that was actually the second time it had happened to me. first time it happened to me, I'm living in Sacramento, I'm walking down Sunrise Avenue, minding my own business, and all of a sudden, this Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy, I saw him go by me, he whips around, turns his lights on, and then comes in at an angle, and he comes out of his car with his gauge pointed right at me, and screaming at me

to get on the ground. I get on the ground. He tells me, and interlock your fingers. Absolutely, sir. Okay. I hear more sirens. I hear more cops getting on scene. Next thing I know, I've got knees pinning me on my shoulders to the ground, and I'm getting the bracelets put on. Nobody's told me a thing yet about what I may have done. What did they end up being? Just curious. I got my match the description of a robbery suspect they were looking for. Oh, man. I totally complied with every order I was being given. Now, you're bringing up the incident that happened here in Medford. This was March 2018.

I was sitting here, minding my own business. Terry and Emily were out of town on a spring break vacation in Portland. I saw what time it was. I knew I needed to eat something so I could take medication. I was taken at the time, and I decided, well, I'll just go on. down to cartwrights and pick up something in the deli. I get to the end of my driveway coming out of my townhouse complex. I see this van parked out on the street. I see cops around all over. All of a sudden the cops are converging on me. I saw six ARs pointed right at me.

That's kind of a pants wedding experience, really. I mean, I know what an AR can do, you know? And see guys with firearms pointed right at me, sidearms, pistols, and they're all screaming at me, stop your vehicle, okay? Put it in park, stop, stay in your vehicle. They come up, they get up, my window, driver's side windows down, and the first thing they're asking me is, do you have any firearms? I'm going, no. And then they get me out of the truck. They get me on the hood, pointed at me. I get frisked by a Medford cop in such a way that I'm still disappointed every year on Valentine's Day when I don't get a dozen roses in a car.

Oh, he doesn't send you that? That's too bad. Okay. Yeah, you know, and I'm going, what in the hell is going on here? So it took Boudreau showing up, Mike Boudreau, who I always love talking to until you found out, right? They clear my vehicle. They cleared me first, then they clear my vehicle, and I'm told, you go sit over there. they point to the sidewalk right by our driveway. They go, you go sit over there. We'll be back with you. And I'm like, okay, fine.

So I go and sit down. All of a sudden, a staff vehicle pulls up and out pops Mike Boudreau. And you and I both know Mike. Oh, yeah. Used to be a contributor to your show. And I mean, I've known him for years. I go, Mike, what is going on here? And he looked at me and he goes, hang on a second.

And he goes over and he talks to one of the guys who pulled me out of my truck. Then he comes back over and he said, okay, we've got a situation happening. The description of the suspect was guy with a goatee wearing shorts. Well, that's you. Guy with a goatee wearing shorts. That was you. Yeah. It was my neighbor they were talking about.

Now, didn't they end up shooting your neighbor? Kill him and the guy missed because turned at the last second. and avoided being shot, more seriously, kind of like somebody else, we all know, in an incident in Butler, but it spared his life, which wound up being a great thing. But ultimately, they had the wrong guy. I knew they had the wrong guy, but I complied with every order I was being given. I didn't resist in any way. I did exactly what I was told to do. My grandfather hammered that into my brain. I also doing ride-alongs with law enforcement in Deschutes County, you learned kind of the procedure and what's going on, and I did have some other additional training where they went

through these scenarios, and over and over again, it's pounded into your head. At the time of the incident, that's not the time to debate anything. You comply or you may die. Yeah, that's the reality. of where it is right now. And so I guess, you know, the thing is, you know how black families in inner cities. You know, there's always this talk about, well, they always have the talk. You know what I'm talking about the talk with kids.

And what I'm wondering is that other parents don't have the talk with their kids, the talk with their kids on how you end up surviving or getting through a law enforcement encounter that could be sporty without any additional trouble, I guess. Well, here's now the X-Factors we've entered into. Anything happening right now, I have never seen happen in America before. In fact, I grew up in America where Democrats were law and order types. Yeah, the old lunchbox kind of steel worker Democrats of the day, right?

That kind of thing. The Blue Dogs is what we're talking about here. and I'm talking about, you know, guys like walking. Anyway, you know what I'm getting at. Yeah, yeah, it's... Even to the caricatures like Buford. And Buford Pusser in Walking Tall. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I get that. So that's not the world we live in, though. There's a part of the wonders, I mean, I see even these women in these inner cities that are hitting cops. And I'm wondering if even they're thinking that, what, in their feminist protest mode, that they're not going to, that a man's not going to hit them or something. I wonder. No, no, no. No?

This goes by the people that they have the moral obligation to do this. Yeah. So they're convinced side of might and right, and they have also been, you don't have to listen to what they're telling you because it's illegal and immoral. Or that they are fascists. That's not true. The other thing I think you have to add to what they are fascists, right? Yeah.

They are what they claim to be fighting against. All right. Point well-being here. and if this continues, though, this continues if there is not a return to a bit of sanity, people will die. But people will die because of their stupidity. And I think what happened in Minnesota is arguably part of your stupidity. It's very unwise. But the point is, though, is that I think that, well, look at what happened in Portland yesterday.

In Portland yesterday, we have, once again, a couple of gang members. Well, one of them probably a prostitute in the prostitution gang side of Trendy Arrawagua. By the way, did you notice how most of the media reports on that buried that part about the gang affiliation are way down in the story, if they mentioned it at all? Isn't that interesting? Yeah, because that doesn't fit the narrative. The narrative they clearly want to establish. It's a false one, and that is Trump and his minions are out there.

They are out after people. They're out after people. In fact, that was a direct, a couple of news releases I had from left-wing soccer. puppet groups. That was what they were talking about. You know, for no reason going after people in Portland. People, Greg. People. It just astounds me, all right. But anyway. I got to agree 100% with J.D. Vance. I did watch his press conference yesterday. Did a good job on that. He did. Probably the most incredible press conference I've ever seen. And J.D. absolutely set the narrative, and he said it correctly, and I love that he called the media out for lying because they are.

And now I've got people who are mad at me. Look, I don't care if you're mad because the truth is the truth, and they're lying about what's going on. Absolutely. All right. Greg, I appreciate you sharing the experiences of being at gunpoint a couple of times. I have never been held at gunpoint, all right? And I hope I never have to experience that, all right?

Yeah, most people have it. That's why I wanted to talk about this. Yeah, because, well, you're a big guy. And also, you're a really big guy. And I could see how in the law enforcement world is just like, I don't want to fight this guy, especially when you were a young man, right? I could see that back in. Especially my guest on the Breakfast Club, which is my live webcast I do on Tuesday morning.

Not only have I not fought cops, there were three times when I lived in Deshutes County. I haven't had it happen here in Jackson County, but there were three times in Deschutes County. I actually went to the aid of law enforcement officers who were about to be on the losing end of a scuffle with somebody they were trying to take into custody. Hey, good for you. Yeah.

I think my favorite story, though, about law enforcement is the way some of them, some people have dealt with it in the past. I think there is a standoff over there by the Stevens Media Group over there by KTVL in that neighborhood, you know, a while back. And Brian Bishop, old reporter for us once had mentioned how he was standing there and watching. He watched the old sheriff Mike Winters go in there and just grab a guy behind the wheel and pulled him out through the window, the suspect. And I was thinking, good for you, Mike.

That was kind of like our Beaufort Pusser Sheriff. I miss him sometimes. And I have witnessed that firsthand. both with ride-alongs and then just happened to's, you know, yeah. And then that actually, you see that in that video right before. She makes her tragic mistake in Minneapolis. One of those guys is attempting to get through the window because they're going to shut the vehicle off out of it.

One of the two, and a lot of the dragging incidents, including the guy who fired the fatal shot in self-defense, A lot of the dragging incidents with law enforcement right now are happening because they are either trying to reach through and shut the vehicle off or out of the vehicle. All right. There you go. Don't do that, okay? Greg, thanks for the call, and we'll talk next week here, but thanks for sharing that experience, okay? We'll talk you later. Again, I felt like I have to because I've lived that twice in my life, and just about everybody listening to this will never experience.

it even one time, but it's important to have the perspective of people who have experienced it. Fair enough. Thanks, Greg. We'll talk next week. This is KMED, the Bill Meyers show. We're going to catch up on a few other things. And then we're going to shift over to another local issue, and that has to do with the library folks. Yep, the library board. Kevin Keating will join me. I wanted to ask him a few questions about what happens next. Meet Matthew Preston. Inside his apartment, everything he holds here is protected by Progressives renters insurance like his laptop and a surprisingly valuable collection of baseball bobbleheads. Outside his apartment, his laptop is still protected, as are his bobbleheads, which he

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Yeah, it has been busy at all. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I was wondering if you could just catch us up. I know that a lot of people have been making a big focus on the library director being given a, well, being suspended or being put up. What's an administrative paid leave, I think, is what is going on here. That's not the end of the story, though. Isn't that right? this is back with the talent library controversy with the alleged, I'll call him the alleged

pervert looking at naked pictures and videos on a library computer, right? And then some people finally made some noise. And the library director apparently was not as active or wanting to do much about it at first. Is that a fair assessment? I don't want to mischaracterize, you know, what I'm saying about that. I think what I can say on that is that really, I think at all levels, there was, you know, there were problems at all levels.

And the response, both during the incident and after the incident, is not done what we would have expected. So, yeah, we've, the library directors on leave for two weeks until the next meeting, the 21st. And meanwhile, we are investigating. We've actually hired an outside investigation firm. And that's what you voted on this week to do, to get this actual probe. And who is the investigator? Anybody we know, or is an outside group or what? It's someone that's worked here locally. It's someone suggested and vetted by our legal counsel.

So I don't know the exact name. I'm sorry. I think it was BIS, B.Y.S, if I'm not mistaken. And not only investigating the talent incident, but other things that have come up in open discussion and open meetings. Oh, so there's more than just what happened in the talent library. Is that fair? Well, we're looking at all the different, yeah, during the open session, there have been some other allegations and, you know, things that have come out that, that deserve us looking into, if nothing else, and there could be nothing to them. But, yeah, we're just making sure that we're crossing T's and done nines and want to make sure that we get everything correct. What can the board actually do as a board then to, I mean, can you, you can discipline the director or can you replace the director? What are the actions that could be taking?

What could be happening? And this is pure speculation at this point. But essentially what you're doing right now is that there's a little. leave because we're going to investigate and then really decide the final decision, right? That's what we're looking for. We're waiting for. And I'm hoping that on the 21st will come to a final conclusion on that. There's discipline at several levels and then although at the termination without cause.

And, you know, if we find, unlikely if we find that there is cause, then that would be different, but I don't think we will. And those are the options that are, you know, outlined in. in the contract. Is the library, so the library director has a contract and there's probably a severance package that's connected with that, right? Yeah, there would be. Okay, how many months of severance?

Just curious. Do you know? Somewhere probably between six and nine. Wow. Okay. She's been there, you know, five, seven years. Okay. Pretty good money, I guess, there.

Anyway, do we know anything more, or have you heard anything more as a board member about any potential criminal investigation of the patron. Is that out of your wheelhouse? Have you heard anything? No, I did try to contact the chief. In fact, I did speak with the chief. And there's a chief of police talent. And there is no information that she can give us on the record.

Okay. But that hasn't been completely separate. We don't have any kind of control on that. Yeah. All right. Just between me and you and a few thousand folks this morning here, Kevin. Yeah. Is the board going to start focusing on providing library services and not worrying as much about what appears to be a lot of political agendas?

You know, things like stolen land talks and footwalk. Now, I don't know. Are we still foot washing bums in the Medford library? If it were up to me, Bill, yeah, we would be doing that. I'm for political neutrality, fiscal responsibility, just and making sure we have a safe and pleasant place. to go when you go to a library. So as much as I can, and I think the board is with me on most of that. Has the board policy to concentrate more on actual library services rather than pushing a

potential political agenda? I guess maybe that's the better way of asking the question. That's when I'm, you know, where is the board right now? I know you're just one of the members. Yeah. I would say the board is going to look at a lot of different things. I can't promise you that the board is going to take that as a high priority right now. Just can't.

But, yes, we are. I mean, really, we manage the director and we manage policies typically. If something like this comes up, then we're going to get a little bit more involved. But I have put it on for a future study session, which is kind of getting pushed back at this point, to specifically address the, land acknowledgement, which I do not agree with at all. Okay. How many people ended up popping into that big meeting when all of these decisions were made? Because I see a lot of online folks that are really upset about what's been going

on with the library. How many showed up, do you know? Well, there were about, I'd say probably 30 or 40, if you include the online people as well. And you all got traffic tickets, too, from what I understand. I'm sorry, what? And you all got traffic tickets, too, from what I understand. Yeah, I somehow lucked out. Oh, good, good. Yeah. All right. But anyway, yeah, it's a lot of people who were there who wasn't there,

quite honestly, were many of the people who were, you know, complaining on scanner. So that was a surprise. But everyone has had their opportunity to speak, and they certainly can contact the board directly if they request, you know, put their phone number in there. We can give them a call back, et cetera. So the board is then open then for real usable public comments. comment on some issues and if they want to talk about the, you know, the library controversy,

what to do with the director, they can talk to the board members, right? Absolutely. All right. We've been very open about this, I think. All right. And we're all concerned. I looked it up and your email address is pretty simple, fortunately. Okay, this is easy, folks.

If you wanted to drop a note to the library system board, this is for the entire board. You don't have individual email addresses at the board from what I found out. So it is just board at J-C-L-S dot-O-R-G. That's bored at J-C-L-S dot-O-R-G. Because I understand it's like I couldn't go to that meeting. I was right in the middle of my workday, and that would have been a, you know, a big burden. So a lot of people probably can't do that. But you'd like to hear from the folks, I hope?

Absolutely, yeah, definitely. That's the purpose of our kind of information gathering pause at the moment. And all that information will be looked at. read and responded to any email that we get. And the other thing is that they do record the open meetings. So those are, well, they record all meetings, but the open meetings are posted as well. And I don't know specifically if that one is posted at the moment. All right. So a couple of weeks, we'll probably have a better idea of what's going to happen moving forward. But right now it's in the information gathering and public comment.

public comment and input might help the board members make a better decision. At least I hope. And the reason I brought up about the comments is that I already see on the, I think it was in the Road Valley Times, he had a letter to the editor or someone in there submitting that, oh, and this is just me, all right, this is my opinion. I don't know what yours is. But, oh, you know, the library director has done so many good things. It has a great track record or something like that.

Well, I'm looking at the talent library issue as showing a real. lack of critical thinking process because the policy of the Jackson County Library system, the policy set by your board, by the board here, has always been that you don't look at naked kids and do illegal things on library computers. Isn't that the case from what I know about this? Absolutely. I am not going to comment on the director at this time, of course, but, but But the policy has always been. There's been no change in policy that says, hey, we don't bother patrons that are looking at naked kid pictures on the computer, right?

That's never been a board policy. We're going to make it even more explicit, though, in terms of – I don't think it has the words naked children. But if that's what it takes, then we'll put in every possible thing we can think of. All right. To prevent this and make it absolutely clear. All right. Well, I'm glad to hear that.

And, Kevin, I appreciate you take it a few minutes. So I know you've got ahead of your day job, all right, but I'll talk to you a little later on that. All right. Thanks, Bill. You bet. You bet. Kevin Keating, and he is a board member of the Jackson County Library Services, you can email the board and let them know your opinion and what you think should be happening. What could be done?

Let him know. And you know how Mr. X talks about it. Your silence is your consent. And so if you want the people like who wrote to the Road Valley Times and say, oh, the library director has been doing. doing such wonderful things and yada yada yada and wringing your hands. Oh, it's horrible the attacks that have been placed on it. Or do you want some accountability? Let them know.

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