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Public
meetings: Should you get involved?
By MICHAEL
BOYLAN
mboylan@TheCitizenNews.com
"To sin by
silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." Abraham
Lincoln.
Bills
provide for small-business health insurance, long-term care
By MAC
COLLINS
Congressman
On Thursday, with
my strong support, the House of Representatives passed the Small Business
Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 660) in a 262 to 162 vote.
- LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Commissioners
ignore clerk's, sheriff's needs
I read the recent
article concerning our commissioners' failure to fund the positions
requested by our clerk of court and our sheriff.
Ashamed
of airport firing
I have lived in
Peachtree City for around 12 years and I can say without hesitation
that I am now ashamed of what we have become in our government.
Some
truths are no longer so self-evident
Like most Americans
of my generation, I was taught certain "truths" to live by,
truths that were ingrained in me, truths that I erroneously thought
were infallible.
Why
cater to smokers?
There are 80 to
90 percent nonsmokers as opposed to 10 to 20 percent smokers. Restaurant
owners and city/county officials, who are you catering to? You should
pick the bigger percentage.
Ban
public smoking
Yes, nonsmokers
have a choice to sit in a nonsmoking section. But, it is right next
to the smoking section. I for one don't agree with having to take in
secondhand smoke while I am eating or just hanging out. And I really
don't like the fact that my teenage nieces have to be exposed to it
either.
Local
legislators, PTC officials, where were you?
Golf carts are not
cars. The state has the responsibility to regulate motorized vehicles
but they must recognize that carts with governors that limit their speed
to 12 m.p.h. in communities designed to accommodate them need different
limits.
Why
should innocent teens be punished for cart violation?
I support our Mayor
Steve Brown on this situation. The young people who drive golf carts
and who have reached the age of 15 for the most part have grown up in
the city, learned to roller-skate, bicycle, scooter, and drive golf
carts with their parents' aid.
Who's
responsible? Look in the mirror
Almost on a daily
basis I ride around Lake Peachtree with my kids on the golf cart. One
day while on a trip to Hippocket Park my 3-year-old daughter said something
about some trash she saw. I too noticed an absurd amount of trash which
had collected alongside the cart path. I probably wouldn't have noticed
it if my daughter hadn't drawn my attention to it. I guess I have grown
accustomed to it, as have most of the citizens, I imagine.
'Democrats
described in letter nothing like me'
One of the things
that amazes me about the new breed of right-wing extremists is their
inability to even come up with their own descriptions of the opposite
political point of view. If mindless aping was an Olympic sport, the
right side of the GOP would have to hold a dumb and dumberer lottery
due to its inability to separate the participants. I give you Mr. De
Marino's letter of this week past.
Sinkhole
brought many workers, not much work
It was the largest
I had ever seen the creek, and still they stood around. I was afraid
that at some point that body of water, which before had seemed so harmless
(like a thread running through the heart of the neighborhood), would
actually creep up the hill and swallow my house. And still they just
stood around.
Harry
Potter foes overlook obvious Christian symbolism
As millions of children
(and adults) around the world don wizarding apparel and camp out in
front of bookstores in anticipation of the newest installment of the
Harry Potter series, the much-debated controversy about the books' moral
and religious implications revives itself. Critics charge that the books
glorify witchcraft and magic and promote evil and anti-Christian attitudes.
All such critics, most of whom have obviously not read the books, fail
to realizes the series' merits and underlying meanings.
Leave
those wisteria roots alone, Frank
How appropriate
that you would find your way back to your roots, through another type
of roots [J. Frank Lynch's column, The Citizen, June 18].
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