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Dear
sheriff, chiefs: Enforce left-lane law
By
CAL BEVERLY
editor@thecitizennews.com
First, a letter
to local law enforcement leaders.
Fayette
driving one of life's lesser charms
By
JENNIFER GAYNOR
Nothing makes me
descend into a murderous rage more quickly than driving around Fayette
County. Between sitting at red lights when there is no car around for
miles, passing a tortoise-like SUV to see a soccer mom chatting into
her cell phone or turned around yelling at the kids, and keeping watch
for the infamous PTC cops, nothing aggravates me more.
For
NEA, there is only one 'right' position on diversity, gay rights
By
DR. WARREN THROCKMORTON
Class, let's match
wits with the NEA. Answer the following multiple-choice question:
With
new touch screens, voting fraud is easy
By LIBERTARIAN
PARTY OF GEORGIA
"A shocking
new report puts Georgia in the spotlight for potential vote counting
fraud," said Libertarian Party of Georgia Chairman Dr. Helmut Forren.
"As a 28 year veteran computer engineer, I knew these new voting
machines would be vulnerable to vote tampering, but it just floored
me when I found out how terribly vulnerable they really are," he
continued.
- LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Assessors,
how can you defend 30% increase?
To the Fayette County
Board of Tax Assessors:
Judge's
ride on elephant float: Attempt to deceive?
We celebrated our
nation's birthday [July 4] and did it in a style that we citizens of
Fayette County and Peachtree City have come to love and appreciate.
The Peachtree City parade was very symbolic of our freedom to demonstrate
our patriotism, and, yes, politicians. The politicians are OK, and we
have come to expect them just as much as we have come to expect candy
thrown from the floats. It was even special to have Governor "Sonny"
pay us a visit.
Tyrone,
take a look at how well restaurants behave now
Tyrone, before you
chose to let the restaurants in your community serve liquor by the glass,
look at the level of responsibility they are already showing you. Like
the parent of a teen who insists they are old enough to drive a vehicle,
the level of responsibility already shown by their actions should determine
your decision, not simply your convenience.
Readers
mostly say, Move to the right!
These lights have
got to change
Finally,
the truth about traffic woes
Thank you, thank
you, thank you, Cal, for writing the truth. Finally, someone who will
put the truth in black and white.
No
left-lane laggards on Autobahn
To identify in your
recent editorial one of my pet driving peeves as the driver who insists
on driving in the left lane and thereby impedes the normal flow of traffic
did my heart good.
Naming
the left-lane offenders ...
Thank you for finally
saying it. I have waited some three years for you to come to my defense
when I wrote the "Left Lane Jane" letter and got scalded by
some old ladies and others who are innocents.
How
about the lane darters?
If everyone drove
in the right lane so as not to block the speeders, then in effect, we
would only have one lane to carry most of the traffic. I don't see anything
wrong with two cars side by side at, say, 65-70 mph.
Father
asks, Why subject family to yet more pain?
Your policy of publishing
information on local arrests and guilty pleas is hurtful. Perhaps there
are proud families who, seeing that their children have "made the
newspaper," trim the arrest and guilty plea sections from your
paper to be displayed on their refrigerators. Then again, perhaps not.
Certainly not in one case.
Compromise?
Depends on whose definition used
I am getting more
technically proficient in my research, or just lazy, depending on how
you look at it.
Thanks
for Battle of Bands; teens need more such events
I just want to say
thank you to Shelby Barker and the rest of the PTCYC group for organizing
the Battle of the Bands last week. It was great having something different
to do on a Saturday night. It would be great if there were more things
like this for us to do. A building where we could hang out together
and listen to music, watch a movie or play pool would be cool.
Pious:
Let's use it correctly
In the Rev. Hatcher's
admirable column on July 9, he lamented two trends in Christianity:
the gospel of wealth and false piety. I would add ... a critique of
the Prayer of Jabez. Bruce Wilkinson's publishing phenomenon advises
Christians of the benefits of praying for an increase in personal wealth.
Owner
absent, dog impounded
I've just read the
Lopez's letter about the abandoned cats they've been caring for. Coincidentally,
my 9-year-old is in tears right this minute, as the Fayette Animal Shelter
just picked up a stray dog we've been caring for. I came across the
dog while jogging in the Smokerise subdivision this week, along with
some very nice folks living on Smokerise Trace who feared that the dog
would be hit by a car (this is a whole other story, but people constantly
speed up that road!).
Here's
how to fix that chaos at 54-74 junction
I have noticed three
unfavorable stoplights:
Moving
right wouldn't have solved these jerks' problems
It is my belief
that rules of the road are no more than rules of common courtesy. Not
all drivers are courteous so laws must be enacted to make drivers courteous
or suffer a penalty. Sometimes the innocent also suffer. I further believe
that stopping road rage cannot be completely solved by moving to the
right.
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