Beware
of PTC mayor's tinkering with city charter
By CAL
BEVERLY
Publisher
Happy New Year!
For one who still hasn't fully embraced the 1990s, it seems strange
to be living in 'aught-one,' as our grandchildren might refer to our
olden times at the beginning of the new millennium.
Will
our reps prove themselves this year?
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Hang onto your wallets, folks,
the state Legislature's in session.
Clinton's
11th-hour treaty threatens U.S.
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
While we were ticking
off the final minutes of the millennium, President Clinton was ticking
off yet another order for his already dubious legacy. In the late hours
of Dec. 31, 2000, President Clinton made a call from Camp David to David
J. Scheffer, the U.S. Ambassador-at-large for war crime issues.
Where
my mouth is . . .
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
I will get on with
this article, because time is money and that is what everyone is thinking
about today: money. Seems there is all this nervousness over where the
economy is heading and whether or not we are all going to still have
money to burn, like it's been for a while. I think I am dead on the
money to say everyone is confused.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Mayor
places public good on back burner
I have a philosophical
question for your children to take back to political science class in
high school or college. Is it the role of government to: (1) promote
individual rights while defending the common good or (2) promote the
common good while defending individual rights?
Electoral
college lesson
I know nobody will
ever say why we should not do away with the electoral college vote,
so I will try to shed a little more light on it.
Scofflaws
park in fire zones at Starr's Mill
I sure would like
to know were to get the special parking permits allowing me and my wife
to park our car in the fire zones at the Rising Star/Starr's Mill school
complex. The entire front entry circles of the two schools, on both
the outside and inside curb, were filled with parked cars at a recent
middle school Christmas Choir Concert.
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