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Politics:
Let's have some open exchange
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
The jockeying for
position that politician/statesmen do as an election approaches is always
interesting, and now maybe a little more so in the wake of Sept. 11.
Authority
fight: I'm at that age
By
BILLY MURPHEY
Laugh Lines
I am at the age
where I constantly look back at how my parents were during my youth,
and if I am the same way now. Am I a complete replica of the way they
were then?
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Open
meetings: Lust for power drives secrecy
You were forthright
in your editorial, last week, asking why local officials so often choose
secrecy instead of openness, so I'll be forthright in supplying the
answer to you.
Solicitor
won't prosecute open meetings violations
Re your front page
editorial Feb. 27: Congratulations on your victory in obtaining a temporary
injunction in stopping local governments from meeting in secret.
If
paper prints attack on Dunn, then at least let him respond
I find it disturbing
that you would print a personal attack by one of our Tyrone City Council
members without at least having the courtesy to talk with the person
being attacked ["Cannon: Dunn's a liar," Page 14A, Feb. 27].
What has happened to the fair and objective reporting I expect and usually
get from your newspaper?
Dunn:
What you see is what you get
Will you please
allow Greg Dunn to state his position on community involvement in the
Fayette County jail system.
Dunn
is not a liar
Those who know Greg
Dunn personally know how invalid [Tyrone Councilman Ronnie] Cannon's
statements are. To those who don't know Greg, let me say I worked for
and with Greg when he was a special assistant to the four star general
at FORCES Command. Greg is NOT a liar, or even prone to hyperbole for
sake of self. He says what he means and means what he says.
Is
it time for Tyrone Council to clean up its act?
Has the time come
for us to clean up our act in Tyrone?
Not
easy to stand up for positions against opposition
I don't agree with
everything Steve Brown or Cal Beverly may say or do, but I have to give
these men credit for standing up for what they believe in. They've always
fought for what they think is right and just, and that is not easy.
PTC
officials supporting a teen center? What a joke!
Subject: Peachtree
City's rampant rise in youth crime, spreading throughout Fayette County.
Snell
brings meaning, class to library programs
I noted with dismay
an article in a local newspaper last week on my friend, Chris Snell.
She is the director of the Fayette Public Library.
Radio
station bombards children with obscenities
I live in Gaelic
Glen and I feel the same as Wes Wilkins, "Free speech should end
if I can't turn it off!"
Dear
AT&T: I'd like my lost channels returned
Mr. Jim Lowe was
right on the mark with his letter in The Citizen, but he did not go
far enough.
Cable
customers getting more 'outages' than 'in-ages'
On Saturday two
trucks belonging to AT&T Broadband came into my yard, [technicians]
climbed the telephone pole and cut off my cable TV. Not only me but
many other customers on Hip Pocket Road in Peachtree City as well. They
left and didn't come back. This left all without TV service Saturday
night and most of Sunday.
Many
people don't know about Black History Month
This letter is in
response to a racial commercials letter, "Ad portrays white people
as stupid" [The Citizen, Feb. 27].
Black
inventors are numerous
Ms. Saul, I agree
with you; I feel that the commercials are tacky. I don't think that
they are trying to portray Caucasians as being "dumb." I feel
that they have made a commercial that was not well put together. I think
that they could have put the message out a little better and definitely
in a different way.
Movie
accurately depicts what happened in Somalia
I could not disagree
more with a "Critic's Corner" review of the movie, "Black
Hawk Down."
Let's
remember Vietnam vets
I recently saw the
movie, "Black Hawk Down." What a great movie. The deaths of
those 18 brave Americans on that horrific October day in Mogadishu and
the realistic action sequences are testimony to the courage and dedication
representative of today's U.S. armed forces.
'Latter
Day Saints' believe faith plus works
This letter is a
response to the religion column printed in your newspaper Feb. 27. Perhaps
I can shed some additional light on the beliefs of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, because I have been a member since my conversion
in 1954. While I believe my comments will be correct, and I believe
that the doctrines I shall mention are true, I speak only as an individual
member of my Church.
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