Observations
on a plethora of goings on
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
So much to write
about, so little time ...
Math
text choice will be good for students
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
As reported last
week, the Fayette County school system has announced its choice for
math textbooks. McGraw Hill was selected for the elementary grades,
taking 56 percent of the overall vote.
Surviving
Reality TV, Part 2
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
As I write this,
Survivor 2 is set to premiere. Thus begins the second great experiment
in reality television, being that the first Survivor supposedly changed
the world on the little screen forever in its reality of 16 virtual
strangers being stranded together in the most tense and primitive of
settings. Happens to me all the time; I call it a family reunion.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Rep.
Westmoreland supports old state flag
Please allow me
to respond to the recent article regarding state Rep. Lynn Westmoreland
and his involvement in the Georgia flag situation.
Should
every moral standard based on religion be undone?
Sometimes I am confronted
by self-appointed ethicists that challenge moral questions by insisting
there must be a separation of church and state. I wonder where they
are coming from.
Jackson
forfeits leadership
Is there a more
absurd notion in the world today than the one that Jesse Jackson is
deserving a leadership position? Particularly in the church?
Say
no to hidden tax increases through fee hikes from ARC, GRTA boards
The Georgia General
Assembly has complete control over the funding the Atlanta Regional
Commission (ARC) through Georgia Code Section 50-8-101. Any increase
in funding requires "positive action" by the Georgia General
Assembly.
Send
complaints about gas billing to Ga. PSC
On March 1, 2000,
an order was issued by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court allowing the Public
Service Commission to revoke Peachtree Natural Gas marketer's certificate,
but prohibiting further enforcement actions by the Commission. As part
of that order, Peachtree was allowed to continue to bill for natural
gas and/or other services provided by Peachtree to its customers.
For
shame grammar a casualty in pet story
I was looking over
this week's Citizen when I noticed something that I couldn't help responding
to. The write-up in the Pet Talk ad had some of the most atrocious grammar
that I have ever seen in a publication. In one fell swoop, the writer
of this ad has demonstrated a lack of proper punctuation, improper subject-verb
agreement, and a switch from first person to second person within the
same paragraph.
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