How
to stop the pork barrel gravy train
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
Various conservative
organizations delight each year in listing some of the unconscionable
ways in which our elected representatives waste our money in order to
buy votes.
Staff
development trains variety of school personnel
The staff development
department of the Fayette County School System provides and supports
many professional development activities for all employees. The majority
of the funding for staff training is provided through a grant from the
Georgia Department of Education.
I
school; how do you school?
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
When highly educated
archaeologists dig up our Sunday-best-dressed corpses in some century
yet to come, I wonder if we will be remembered as the culture who could
argue over everything. Among our ruins of Movado watches, Ford Expeditions
and Mini cell phones will they also discover our propensity for quarreling?
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Democrats
not only ones sending surveys
I certainly can
relate to Dave Hamrick's article, "This poll's responses won't
surprise you," in The Citizen Sept. 5. You see, I, too, was sent
a "survey" to fill out during the 2000 campaign.
Why
schools have no gyms, and how they can get them
Please allow me
to comment on last week's Citizen front-page article captioned, "What
about our gym?" There is a reason why there is no gym, and I'll
tell you what it is. I'll also tell you how our kids can get a gym.
Health
data say No to power plant
I have heard and
read reliable and factual data about the proposed Williams Power Plant.
I have also heard many things about the risk to our health, which is
my greatest concern regarding this proposed power plant. I have tried
to keep an open mind while gathering all the information that I can
before I choose a position for or against this proposed power plant.
Keep in mind that Fulton and Fayette counties are in the non-attainment
zone for ozone pollution.
Plant
bad for seniors, kids
Everyone needs power,
but power plants shouldn't be built in residential areas. Prior to deregulation
most public utilities didn't locate power plants in neighborhoods because
risks to the public were not deemed acceptable.
California
said No; look what happened
For all the residents
and family members of the residents primarily in the suggested "proposed
new power plant area," we should really consider this new plant
as a blessing.
Brown:
Here's plan that will work for schools
For those who have
read my letters in the past, you will recall that I had introduced a
proposal called Education First in Fayette. The proposal called for
local governments (county and municipal) to assume accountability for
annexations and rezonings that negatively affect the school system.
Obviously, if governmental entities change large sections of land to
a higher density than what the current land use plan states, the school
system is forced into a reactive position and problems abound.
Wellman:
Not engaging in negative campaigning
The period to qualify
for our Peachtree City elections has begun. By close of business Friday,
Sept. 14, we will know who the candidates will be. We will then have
eight weeks to decide which one will earn your vote.
Faulkner:
CCY youth programs must be kept
The decision last
week for the Peachtree City Commission on Children and Youth to recommend
to City Council that it be disbanded should be a wake-up call for us.
Mexicans
are just like us: We all came here from elsewhere
After reading your
letters to the editor in today's Citizen, I found myself compelled to
respond, primarily to the letter signed "Name withheld."
U.S.
overcrowded? Not likely
This letter is in
response to Bill Gilmer's letter, "Unchecked immigration leads
to overcrowding."
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