Amnesty's
fine, but then what next?
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
There's an organization
that sends me e-mails every day or two addressing its concerns over
immigration.
The
meaning of life, part one
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
Lots of people complain
these days that there's nothing out there that makes living worthwhile.
I say movies make the world go round. "It's a Wonderful Life"
and my "Sixth Sense" tells me that being a "Die-Hard"
movie fan doesn't make me a "Psycho." I don't mean to go "Overboard"
with this movie stuff, but such a "Phenomenon" is not "Alien"
to my existence. I will "Face Off" all "Goodfellas"
or an "American Beauty" on any "Dog Day Afternoon"
to tell them the importance of movies.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Hecht's
redistricting vote forfeits voter trust
Greg Hecht is either
out of touch with reality or is an outright lying political opportunist
that cares only for his own skin.
Hecht
propaganda can't hide what Demos did to Fayette
I think Sen. Greg
Hecht must be delusional to think that we will buy his propaganda about
Fayette County being stronger because he marched in lockstep with his
other Democratic comrades.
Band
noise level overwhelmed amphitheater-supplied earplugs
Marshall Tucker
Band, you are an insult to our sensibilities!
Doc
Holliday: Correcting Cary
Editor, I know just
how you feel. It's embarrassing to have someone point out your mistakes
in public, as Ms. Carolyn Cary did in her Aug. 22 article about the
life of the legendary Doc Holliday. She says you added several sentences
to another story of hers, erroneously identifying the famous dentist
as a resident of Fayetteville. "Sorry, Mr. Editor," she said,
"but I'm afraid it isn't so."
Former
PTC Clerk Nancy Faulkner announces intent to run for Council
When people find
out that I am running for City Council, they ask me two questions: Are
you crazy? and, Who are you running against?
Time
for Wellman to take stand on something
Is it possible to
run as a mayoral candidate in Peachtree City without ever taking a stand
on one issue? Fred Wellman is running that kind of a campaign.
Brown
volunteers for post, cautiously
[Editor's note:
Peachtree City mayoral candidate Steve Brown received an invitation
from Mayor Bob Lenox to serve on a voluntary committee. This is Brown's
reply.]
PTC
voters should OK Braelinn Arts Center bond
Finally! In a move
long requested by the many arts organizations in Peachtree City, the
city has put on the bond issue the purchase of the Braelinn Baptist
Church campus for badly needed space for classes, practices, rehearsals
and other needs.
Georgia
GOP wants its turn at public hog trough
In 1973 I supported,
worked, and voted for Maynard Jackson to be mayor of Atlanta. Once elected,
Maynard quickly instituted preferential hiring and promotional practices
for unqualified blacks, created "minority" set-aside programs
that discriminated against every racial group except blacks, grossly
violated Atlanta Civil Service procedures and changed a typically corrupt
(but efficient) medium-sized city government into a profoundly corrupt
(and inefficient) "Li'l' Chicago" that would have been at
home in Southside Chicago during the height of Prohibition.
South
Fulton power plant site violates idea of environmental justice
The environmental
justice movement is generally acknowledged to have emerged in the early
1980s in response to large demonstrations opposing the siting of a PCB-landfill
in a predominantly black community in Warren County, N.C.
Williams
power plant not welcome in South Fulton
I think that we
all realize that we need to prepare for our future electrical needs.
I believe that this plant is a good idea. But this company, Williams,
is obviously seeing only the money they will make as criteria for the
site selection.
Why
is our D.A. on Democrat crusade to ban video poker?
Why is our [District
Attorney William McBroom] off to Atlanta in his taxpayer financed car
to promote the governor's attack on video poker? Is it because Mr. McBroom
was appointed in 1995 by Democrat Zell Miller? Is it because he does
not have enough murders, rapes, assaults, home invasions and other violent
crimes to worry about?
Please,
improve MHS restrooms
As the parent of
a McIntosh High School student, I was appalled to learn recently of
the deplorable back-to-school conditions existing within MHS's female
restroom facilities.
Overzealous
endangered species act now puts human lives at risk
The federal Endangered
Species Act (ESA), which has caused significant economic pain to private
landowners, ranchers, and farmers, may have recently claimed the lives
of four gallant firefighters in Washington State.
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