Health
care: Philosophies drive debate
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Let's explore a
little further this idea of the government as cradle-to-grave care giver.
Destroying
people to save people . . .?
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
It probably was
a surprise to few last week when scientists at the Jones Institute for
Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., spoke publicly about being the
first group in the world to create embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting
stem cells for use in medical research.
Cats
vs. dogs: 2nd oldest war
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
The battle over
which animal is better, the cat or the dog, is as old as time, or at
least as old as jokes about how George W. Bush is so dumb. Some people
are cat people, some people are dog people. Rarely is anyone, other
than a naive child, both.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Power
plant story got facts, figures wrong
I want to correct
a series of errors from your previous story on the Fulton Energy Center.
First, your story said that our facility would be "the largest
power plant in the country."
People
depending on paper to cover power plant story
Subject: Williams
Energy story.
Anti-power
plant rhetoric is getting shrill; how about facts?
All that I am hearing
is how bad this power plant is going to be and the rhetoric is getting
shriller. The more I hear, the more I think things may be getting carried
away.
F'ville
Historic District: A lose-lose proposition for landowners, taxpayers
Certainly the Mayor
and the Fayetteville City Council are men of honor, character and integrity
and intend nothing but the best for the citizens of Fayetteville. However,
even those with the best intentions sometimes overlook things. In this
case, it's the financial effects on the citizens of Fayetteville that
have been overlooked.
Living
next to a power plant, you will get the tailpipe
We are residents
of western Coweta County, severely and negatively impacted by the construction
and operation of the recently completed Tenaska and Dynegy natural-gas-fired
merchant power generation plants, operating in Heard County, virtually
on the Coweta County line.
Aleshire
vs. Brown: Ease up
A couple of Saturdays
ago a group of like-minded citizens spent a hot day helping to build
a children's playground behind City Hall. Two of the volunteers were
Steve Brown and Bill Aleshire.
Wynnmeade,
tired of 'stepchild' status, gears up to oppose 107-home addition
Perhaps you missed
the very small notice in the local paper concerning yet another planned
subdivision on the west side of Peachtree City. If some in the city
and the developers have their way, it will be built at the north end
of Wynnmeade subdivision.
PTC
traffic study based on flawed assumptions
There were a few
of us that noticed some flaws in the traffic data gathered in March
2001 by the city's traffic consultant, URS Corp. Many of the figures
failed to add up. I began asking what methodology was used to collect
the data and the city staff did not know.
Braelinn
Baptist will make a good community center
I was very heartened
to read in John Munford's article, "Auditorium plans to go before
voters," which appeared in the Citizen Review that Peachtree City
is seriously considering purchasing the Braelinn Baptist Church for
a multiuse community center.
New
commissioner Pfeifer says thanks to supporters
I owe my thanks
to many people after the election of last Tuesday. First, I'll repeat
what I said Tuesday night: I thank the Lord, the voters, my family and
all those who helped the campaign.
EMS
response time means lives saved
Let's take an objective
look at EMS services and response time. When I started work in that
field we had nothing but advanced first-aid cards. Our usefulness was,
at best, marginal.
Selfish
reasons can't justify abortion
I can't help but
feel sorry for people like Suzanne Sports [Letters, The Citizen, July
11] who have no regard for human life and are willing to kill their
babies for purely selfish reasons.
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