Seekonk needs to decide whether it wants businesses or not. If it wants businesses, it needs to be competitive with other communities that are less restrictive in their sign by-laws. We also need to stop listening to an attorney from Boston tell us that it's unconstitutional to make a distinction between a yard sale or tomatoes-for-sale sign on the one hand and a mega-business sign on the other. That's ridiculous. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions on signs were not meant to restrict yard sale signs or local produce signs. The Supreme Court has better things to do with its time than worry about yard sales, tomatoes, or church suppers in Seekonk. No one's going to sue the town of Seekonk if we make a distinction. I understand that the Town Moderator is working on yet another proposed revision. I hope she's successful. We need a by-law that encourages free enterprise rather than discouraging it.

The sign police have got to go! Why are they so obsessed? They must have more to do.

It generates revenue for the town at the expense of loss of businesses and jobs. We'd generate more revenue for the town and more jobs if we didn't throw up this obstacle to conducting business here. There was a bait shop near Bakers Corners that relocated to Norton because the owner was fed up with sign enforcement. And there's no reason whatsoever why a church at one end of town shouldn't be able to put up a sign at the other end of town announcing its church bazaar or supper that's open to the public. Some towns have a fetish about drying clothes outside; Seekonk has a fetish about signs. There ought to be a compromise that meets everyone's needs.

Carol I'm not going to disagree/agree about the signs. I don't know enough about it to make a statement. I do however, know people who are looking for work, me included, I want a job that pays well, I don't want or need to work at a shopping center. Shopping centers are not high paying jobs.

I'm with you Chris, retail does not pay enough for people to live on. I've worked in high-tech manufacturing for 30 years in planning & supervision, and as a single person own my home as manufacturing was a great career when I started out. I am currently unemployed and am happiest when I'm working my butt off. I'd like nothing more than a job right now.

Nationally, the number of long-term unemployed in December (Those out of work for 27 weeks or longer) was 4.8 million which accounts for 39.1 percent of the unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What this essentially means is that the country is not in a recovery as President Obama described in his Inaugural speech on Monday, rather, it's just the opposite, we're still in a recesion due to the economic policies of the left wing liberals. Can't blame George W. Bush on this one.