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Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Emergency! Call in the Consultants!
By Sallie Satterthwaite
SallieS@Juno.com

Last week's front-page story by Citizen reporter John Munford could hardly make it any plainer: Peachtree City Fire Department needs additional staffing, and has needed it ever since the current administration moved into City Hall.

Bill protects doctors from malpractice lawyers and runaway judgments
By MAC COLLINS
Congressman

Medical Liability Reform

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2003 (H.R. 5), of which I was an original cosponsor, in a 229 to 196 vote.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

On gays, Boy Scouts forget the Golden Rule

In Mark Pulliam's article, "Gay rights agenda: Blacklisting the Boy Scouts," he seems to be missing an important rule of life, the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

.Cat lovers, unite for our own PTC park; how about people?

I guess the sounds I have been hearing lately is laughter. Yes, laughter from the other counties, and cities around us whenever they hear about our new dog park.

Bush blew chance for coalition, misled U.S. citizens

My friend Les Dyer took me to the woodshed last week for a "loserman crybaby" among other things. There may be something to what he writes, but I doubt it. Putting aside his double abuse of slang, and literal translation of a historic homily, what I did detect was an inability to discount political prejudice and face the George Bush facts, a condition not uncommon in this town, county, and state.

No threats intended

Thank you for printing my letter concerning insufficient news coverage of NAACP events, and please accept my apology for that letter being construed as a "threat" or "extortion."

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