Triggers
for tax cuts? Good strategy
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
The Bush tax cut is in trouble.
Restaurant
Row draws ratings
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
I like to eat. Make
that, I love to eat. It isn't hard to please me, either, being that
I grew up in South Carolina, eating the game we killed, like squirrel
and rabbit. It wasn't rare for us to have tripe or chicken gizzards
for supper, either.
'Doc'
Holliday: The facts and fictions
By
CAROLYN CARY
County
Historian
Legendary figures
in history are often credited with more stories that are fiction than
are fact.
James
Madison and redistricting Georgia: Why the people lose
By
KATHY COX
District 105 House of Representatives
[Editor's note:
State Rep. Kathy Cox made the following remarks about redistricting
in a speech before the Georgia House last week.]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Hecht:
My Senate vote makes Fayette stronger
Together, we have
accomplished a lot. We passed a $2.8 billion dollar property tax cut
to exempt the first $50,000 of the fair market value of all Georgian's
homes over the next four years. We have passed the Georgia Mentoring
Act, expansion of the DNA Database for convicted felons, Natural Gas
Billing Relief legislation, the Mental Health Care Ombudsman Program,
Safe Schools legislation, criminal background checks for children's
daycare workers, Elder Abuse Prevention legislation, and tough DUI laws.
Tax
equity debate proceeds on false assumptions
Moribund as it is,
the tax equity issue between the cities and the county doesn't seem
to have given up the ghost altogether, as The Citizen [Aug. 8] announced
a second court hearing on the issue for Sept. 25. It is interesting
to reflect that the leaders of Peachtree City (PTC), Fayetteville and
Tyrone have hired lawyers who will be squaring off against lawyers for
Fayette County: that means we have county citizens who are paying for
both sets of lawyers at the behest of politicians who probably otherwise
squawk about frivolous lawsuits. Somebody will probably hate lawyers
because of that. Go figure.
Wellman:
We must prepare for Wal-Mart, Home Depot in PTC
I wrote to this
paper two weeks ago about the tone of the debate in Peachtree City and
my belief that it is the true cornerstone issue we face. I have been
gratified to hear from so many citizens who agree with me and have offered
their support in the face of more examples of the same smearing and
attacks. Today I wanted to address the second issue we need to consider
as the election approaches: The coming arrival of Wal-Mart and Home
Depot and the effect they will have on the small business economic landscape
of our city.
PTC
community center vote offers opportunity for youth
The Peachtree City
Council has made a tremendous positive step by allocating the $2.6 million
for purchase of the Braelinn Baptist Church for a community center.
Power
plant threatens health of senior citizens in S. Fulton
I have lived on
Peters Road in South Fulton County for the past 31 years, less than
a mile from the proposed Williams power plant. This morning I attended
a Town Hall Meeting at Christian City, which is an elderly retirement
community consisting of residential homes, assisted living complex,
convalescent center, hospice and children's homes, also located in close
proximity to the proposed plant.
A
few questions need answers
I have a few questions
that maybe one of your readers might answer for me:
Good
for Boylan; otherwise, singles' scene the pits here
In response to "For
whom the wedding bells toll" by Michael Boylan dated July 18:
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