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The
4th of July: Celebrating Day of Deliverance
By
SALLIE SATTERTHWAITE
sallies@juno.com
Celebrating the
Fourth of July is not optional, you know.
Where
does a 500-lb. canary put a runway?
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Have you noticed
the deafening silence of the Sierra Club and the federal Environmental
Protection Agency concerning Hartsfield Airport's fifth runway?
Memories
of a friend who died young
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
When the parents
of one of my closest college friends asked me to write down some things
that I remembered about their daughter, I was honored to be asked, but
found myself suddenly without words. How do you describe a friendship
that spanned 12 years to parents who desperately want to know their
daughter a little better?
Feel
superior: See 'Annie'
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
Of all the songs
that make me think of the current human condition in America, it's "A
Hard Knock Life." Well, maybe not, but this is my second all-time
favorite showtune behind "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina."
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
God
and the 4th: Listen to our Founding Fathers
In recent days we
have heard a lot about religious liberty issues. For example, the ACLU
recently filed a federal lawsuit demanding that a Ten Commandments monument
be removed from the lawn of a county courthouse. There are other issues
in the courts concerning Bible clubs on campus, student-led prayer at
graduations, and removing "In God We Trust" from U.S. currency.
Fayette's
zoning laws subjective, arbitrary, confiscatory; what about rights?
I am sick and tired
of hearing about Fayette County zoning from Bob Craft and his like.
Consider the following.
Dissent
is American way
Bill Aleshire's
letter derided Steve Brown for not finding positive things about "the
members of the governing body of this country and great city."
He better get his shots in before it is Mayor Brown and Mr. Aleshire
finds himself guilty of the same "atrocity."
Mayoral
candidate Wellman: Raise tone of debate
I wanted to take
this opportunity to wish my fellow citizens a happy and safe Independence
Day holiday. Since I announced my candidacy for mayor of Peachtree City
two weeks ago it has been both exciting and humbling to meet so many
nice people who support my candidacy, or who don't, but are willing
at least to talk to me and tell me their concerns.
A
lament against the thieves of the night . . .
The Thieves of the
Night
Maybe
we need 'Lawyer's Day' to celebrate attorneys
I read the letter
from Mr. Claude Paquin [The Citizen Letters, June 27] and had a hard
time keeping down my breakfast.
Want
to stop tree cutting? Then pay us for the trees
So, [Fayette County
Planning Commissioner] Fred Bowen thinks it's OK to tell property owners
that trees can't be cut within 25, or maybe even 50 feet of our property
lines because, "Fayette County is not a farming community."
'AI'
raises some uncomfortable issues
I thought "AI"
was a mind-blowing social commentary. It used the most advanced computer-generated
effects to say humans contain boundless evil, but could evolve robots
to embody their highest ideals and redeem their legacy. It was a warning,
and it was great. It was also disturbing.
Reporter
put spin on power plant story
[Re: "Will
proposed power plant pollut Fayette?" The Citizen, June 27]. My
impression was that the reporter doesn't like power plants, and that
all he had to do was to quote what others of like mind stated, especially
[Fayette County Commission Chairman Greg] Dunn.
We
need a strong patient's bill of rights now
Back in 1988, fresh
from Germany and a few days into my pediatric residency at Rhode Island
Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, I converged with dozens of other
residents to the benefits office to select a health insurance plan,
one of three offered by my employer.
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