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Turns
out, Mayor Brown was right . . .
By CAL BEVERLY
Publisher
Well, Ollie, it's
a fine mess you've got us in.
Books
for guys who like books
By
MONROE ROARK
mroark@TheCitizenNews.com
I'm off to a decent
start on one of my biggest New Year's resolutions, which is to do a
great deal more reading in 2003. The goal is to plow through 25 books
by the end of the year, and I'm in the middle of the second one already.
Remembering
my dad . . .
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
This
past week was the sixth anniversary of the passing of my dad. Normally
this would be a totally sad remembrance but, I choose to see it more
as bittersweet. Enough time has passed that I can look back and remember
first the goodness of even having a father in the home. Enough time
has passed too that I can look back at all the good things (and a few
bad) that I grew up with, and laugh.
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Legislature
needs to level legal playing field
Special days are
ahead for the upcoming session of the Georgia General Assembly. We embark
upon this new session with Republican control of the state Senate and
the Governor's mansion. While Gov. Perdue has his plate full with a
tight budget, ethics, education reform and redistricting, there are
other opportunities, unprecedented in recent years.
Pagan
transition complete
I can accept "holiday"
shopping. I can live with "winter break" from school. However,
the attempts to suppress the name of Christ from Christmas have gone
too far.
Local
Republicans have no problem feeding at the LOST trough for 10 more years
Addiction exacts
a terrible toll. That's why we teach our children not to take up smoking,
which is costly, filthy and unhealthy. That's also why we tell them
not to use illegal drugs that can turn them into zombies. When alcohol
is consumed, we urge moderation, for the same reasons. Many of us also
worry that state-sponsored lotteries may foster gambling addiction in
some vulnerable people.
Founders
had right idea about taxes, government
"Regarding
taxes and fairness": What Cal understands but Timothy Parker does
not is that each individual has the right to his own life and productivity.
The Framers of our Constitution understood that principle and codified
it.
Serviceman
in Kuwait likes Citizen online, 'Carol' story
Cal, I really
enjoyed your Christmas story on this beautiful Christmas Day. Regardless
of where we are, Christmas still brings many of us a "prickle."
Current
mayor stalling on fixing Hwy. 54 traffic
It was interesting
to read Mayor Brown's letter to the editor over the Christmas holidays.
At our house we assumed it was a parody and derived a good deal of laughter
and enjoyment from it. However, I have since learned that our mayor
was serious. On that basis the community deserves some accurate information
about several of the topics the mayor addressed.
Ethics
ordinances being rewritten raises questions
The Peachtree City
Ethics Committee has been holding meetings to make significant changes
to the ethics ordinances in Peachtree City. These meetings seem to be
fallout from last year's ethics complaints against Mayor Steve Brown
and Councilman Steve Rapson. It was after Rapson's compliant that the
"need" for updating the ordinances was "discovered."
Mayor
Brown: Sticking to principles can be tough
In a time when politicians
appear to be concerned only with winning votes, not with statesmanship
or courage, the citizens must certainly be saying, "Who can we
trust?"
Hwy.
74 land deal shows why recall is necessary
The city has received
numerous offers from developers, organizations and businesses who were
interested in purchasing the tract, which is just under an acre and
is the former site of the old Leach Fire Station, Rast said.
U.S.
sense of superiority could take a battle blow
Sean Hannity says
it'll take "about 15 minutes." Bill O'Reilly declared we could
take Iraq "with minimum casualties." Lucianne Goldberg thinks
we ought to bomb that North Korean nuclear reactor currently being reactivated.
When pressed by the host on CNBC how we should do this, she declared:
"We must have a carrier over there somewhere." If these statements
are representative of your thinking, you are not alone.
Advocates
for same-sex unions do disservice to gay people
The Conservative
Jews who are reopening discussion about the ban on same-sex unions and
ordaining homosexuals are doomed to failure unless they educate themselves
about the true nature of homosexuality.
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