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Lawyers
tell the public to stuff it: No records, no open meetings
By
CAL BEVERLY
Publisher
They could have
put themselves on your side, these four governing bodies we all elected.
GOP
better start counter-punching soon
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
If Republicans were
prize fighters, people who bet on them would accuse them of taking a
dive.
WAM
upside politicians' heads
By
BILLY MURPHEY
Laugh Lines
My friends and I
used to play a game in high school. We would see who could come up with
the most creative acronyms for our names' initials. For example, my
friend Glen Lacy Browder changed his initials G.L.B. to "Good Looking
Boy."
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Is
BOE trying to sneak in year-round school?
Re Proposed "Year-Round
School" or "Balanced Calendar":
Letter
slamming Dr. King certainly contained interesting 'revelations'
I read with interest
Victoria Wanzer's groundbreaking revelations concerning Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. ("Some truth-telling needed about MLK Jr.") which
was published as a letter the editor Jan. 23, just two days following
the national observance of the King holiday.
Anti-King
letter was divisive, sad and wrong
It was with
a touch of sadness that I read Victoria A. Wanzer's letter regarding the
life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Being a black man, 51 years old, who
witnessed and participated in the movement, her rhetoric reminded me of
the prevailing attitude of conservative Americans during that era. That
attitude was that these courageous Americans were communist sympathizers
and racial agitators.
If
ever a guy needed a dose of his own medicine . . .
It is with pleasure
that I read your newspaper every Wednesday, and I especially look forward
to the many letters written by the concerned citizens of Fayette County.
This week I read several which prompted me to offer a reply, the first
being the one written by a Mr. Bob Jensen concerning the lack of decency
shown to our new mayor, Mr. Steve Brown, for questioning some of his
recent decisions.
Is
this 'new tone of civility'?
The following are
not my words but I want to repeat them because I couldn't agree with
them more, and after reading Fred Wellman's letter to the editor last
week, now is a good time to repeat them.
Hooray,
moratorium: no buildings, no traffic
Do it up right,
Mr. Mayor.
Just
ignore Wellman whine
With all my hours
spent at the airport, I hear jet engines whine all day long. Now I come
home, pick up your newspaper, and have to "listen" to Mr.
[Fred] Wellman whine about Steve Brown, too.
Kudos
to Sen. Seabaugh
I would like to
commend state Senator Mitch Seabaugh for his proposed bill to add another
step to the salary ladder for Georgia teachers.
Critic
of Islam wrong to portray Muslims as violent
In response to the
remarks made by Mr. Chuck E. Bryant:
Allah
has no Son, so how can he be same as Christian God?
I read your letters
to the editors on Jan. 23 from Kate Martin and Jeff Ellis. I felt that
I was compelled to respond. Ms. Martin writes that Allah is the same
God that Christians worship.
Police
bear down on teens, who have no place to go
I find the police
department in Peachtree City continues to bear down on young people.
I have written many times about abuse of teens and young twenties in
this county and the apparent focus to drive all of these people out.
Local
legislators show no interest in tax reform
A reward might await
some of the people who'll read these comments, in the form of a reduction
in their Georgia state income tax (possibly a few hundred dollars),
but that's not the point. The point, to put it succinctly, is that I
fear the state of Georgia is cheating its own citizens, and our state
legislators from Fayette County have regrettably shown no awareness
and no interest in any of this, to our detriment.
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