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Hey Carlton, great news on the new guidelines for the Squawkbox. I was about to suggest that the Trump-haters get their own separate forum. It was so tiresome to read through their repetitive, obnoxious, hateful, self-centered squawks every day trying to find one about local matters that would actually affect this community. Thanks.

Editors, Please, please don’t tone down the content of the Squawkbox. With political correctness running rampant in the country, there has to be some place where we can still rant without risk of being roasted alive.

The street department is busy building speed tables – sometimes five tables within 100 yards, and even in places it’s not needed. At the same time, they are ignoring the nearby potholes. Their priority is screwed up.

Carlton, I applaud your changes regarding the Squawkbox. My one and only New Year’s resolution was to stop reading the Squawkbox!!!!! (Pardon the exclamation points!) Now I can go back to reading it every morning.

Uhh, Fletcher, should you ask for more civility in a column that starts with an expletive-deleted quote from Kid Rock?

“Taming down” the Squawkbox is just an attempt to appease the anti-Trump crowd, who are the reason our country is falling apart. All we have to do is listen to what our president says, do it, and everything will be just perfect.

There’s no way in Hades that Tommie Postell should be the city’s mayor pro tem. He already almost cost the city a half-million dollars by not knowing what was going on at a meeting, and now you want to put him in charge if the mayor is out of town? He doesn’t need to be on the commission.

Chad Warbington, your desire to be mayor of Albany is showing. Better watch your back if Roger Marietta is anywhere around.

Good! Maybe now the Squawkbox can actually be used to point out issues that matter to this community, not to the partisan would-be pundits who simply repeat whatever their mouthpieces tell them to say.

I don’t know where it’s written, but there must be something in the Bible about these cretins who proclaim the word of God out of one side of their mouths and condemn to hell everyone who doesn’t think like they do out of the other.

Amen, B.J. Fletcher. Our roads are an embarrassment. I was glad to see the road improvement project moving forward, but let’s get started ASAP. My car can’t take much more.

Let’s elect Henry Mathis mayor. I’m sure he — along with Victor Edwards — will have some interesting anecdotes to share.

Great job, as always, Izzie and Nicole and your staffs with Empty Bowls. It’s become one of the good things about Albany.

Thank YOU, Stacey Abrams for coming back to Albany. You showed a lot of class, all the way through the election. We didn’t get the job done in the governor race, but we will when you run for the Senate.

I’d rather pay the T-SPLOST pennies and get help from out-of-towners than to have my property taxes raised … again.