County is losing a quality
administrator
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
I sat in a joint meeting of
Fayette County and local city officials recently and
listened to a consultant report on the findings of a
fairly extensive study of how local governments work.
Prescription drug bill passes; gas
tax rollback introduced
By REP. MAC
COLLINS
3rd District U.S. Congress
It was not easy, but Congress
passed a prescription drug coverage plan. It provides
access to reasonably-priced medicines for all
Americans on Medicare, yet maintains enough choice
and competition to encourage lower prices and new
drugs
Sermon notes: Stop snoring
BILLY MURPHY
Laugh Lines
I, like a lot of people go to
church pretty much every Sunday. Yet, like Mark Twain
said, (or Samuel Clemens, I'm not sure which)
“It's not what I don't understand about the
Bible that causes me distress, It's what I do
understand.” And though church is a place that
pretty much serves to remind me just how bad a person
I am, I know I would be a lot worse a person without
it.
Letters to
the Editor
People damaged by 'file suit, drop
suit' lawyers
As reported in this newspaper
June 30, attorney Jim Webb has decided to drop his
suit against Steve Brown, Cal Beverly and The Citizen
Newspaper. While the reason given is that he felt
“vindicated” by an article in the AJC, I
wonder if there were other reasons involved. Whatever
the reason or reasons, Mr. Brown, Mr. Beverly and
this newspaper now know that the threat of huge legal
bills is over.
Why were 'bus sex' students sent to
'alternative school?
Why were the two students who
were found engaging in fornication on a Fayette
County public school bus given the opportunity to
complete their academic year at the Fayette County
Alternative School? Is that where the Board of
Education has seen fit to officially address such
misbehavior? If so, why there? Doesn't the Fayette
County Alternative School have students and parents
within its own ranks who do not want to be exposed to
such company, either?
School nurses play valuable,
multiple roles
Randy Hicks in his letter,
“School nurse issue: Board must keep parents
involved,” brings up some important points
regarding children's health in our schools and,
parental as well as the Fayette County Board of
Education's obligation to assure the welfare of the
children in the schools.
Peek into Judge Caldwell's soul was
a disturbing view
The picture [June 21] you
published of [Fayette Superior Court Judge Johnnie]
Caldwell swearing in Christopher Chapman upset our
family so much that it gave us cause to write you.
First of all let us be the first to congratulate Mr.
Christopher Chapman on his hard-earned second career
as an attorney. And also many thanks for his past
service to our community as a Fayetteville police
officer. We do appreciate him serving our community.
'Slapp' suit strike at very heart of
our constitutional process
Strategic Lawsuits Against
Public Participation (SLAPP) actions tear at the very
fibers of our U.S. Constitution. According to
Professor Penelope Canan of the University of Denver,
who coauthored a study on SLAPP lawsuits, “These
suits aren't even designed to win in court — 95
percent are dismissed or dropped. They're designed to
not only keep the SLAPPee from filing a complaint or
speaking out, but their neighbors as well. It
effectively kills opposition, since people are
fearful that if they speak out, they get sued”
(Free! Online Journal, Feb. 17, 1998
Local citizens should decide mass
transit issues
On June 24, the Coweta
Republicans held a forum for the 28th Senate District
race. Incumbent State Senator Rick Price and
challengers Mitch Seabaugh, Dan Lakly and Charlie
Harper spoke. During the question and answer portion,
it was asked if the citizens should be allowed to
decide whether to bring public transportation to
Fayette, Coweta and Spalding counties through a voter
referendum, specifically a GRTA-mandated intercity
commuter rail linking our rural communities to MARTA.
Water rationing may come to Fayette
I read the writing, “Water,
water everywhere? Not forever,” and I have
learned to not waste water. In the Army in World War
II we were in training on the Arizona desert halfway
between Phoenix and Yuma, training to go to North
Africa where the German General Rommell's army was
winning everything (we ended up not having to go).
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