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Some
perspective to go with headlines
By J.
FRANK LYNCH
jflynch@theCitizenNews.com
Congratulations!
If you made it this far into today’s paper, it can only mean you
survived election day. You know more than I do as I write this, time
being on your side.
- LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
Splitting
Fayette off to its own circuit unwise
Like the proverbial
bad penny which keeps on showing up, it seems that no matter how the
facts are presented concerning the subject proposal, this bad idea keeps
on cropping up. My letter to you today is yet again an attempt to put
this bad idea to bed, or at least until major facts change which would
justify another study.
Why
no ‘white male’ ID in PTC rape-torch story?
Re: Tips lead to
solving PTC rape. I do have one observation; being a minority male I
am sensitive to certain things. Further, being one of the guests at
the hotel the night of the incident more so.
Try
for better coverage of local recreation sports
Is there some reason
you do not cover the local recreational sports in Fayette County? Most
of the sports consist of volunteers and hard-working people in our area.
It would be nice to see at the least some of the highlights of these
teams and people in your paper.
Kedron
Target won’t be end of world for north PTC
In the words of
Yogi Berra, “This is like deja vu all over again!” To the
many Target Store protesters, get over it. Please know that this comes
from a longtime Planterra Ridge resident and staunch critic of the Home
Depot-Wal-Mart complex. Those in our ranks truly believed life as we
knew it would soon end if our city allowed that complex to be built.
City
should have done more for Kedron
As a voting citizen
of Peachtree City, I am very concerned about what will become a mini
Fayette Pavilion, along with the multitude of safety risks that the
proposed design poses.
Some
candidates have major ‘I’ and ‘me’ issues
They dotted their
I’s and crossed their T’s...but I counted them.
Privatize
to stop tax hikes
It doesn’t
matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican. At the federal, state,
or local level around the country, it has become much like a competition.
Conflict
of interest: Where is The Citizen?
Where is your coverage
of the candidates in the race for the Peachtree City Council? Specifically
where is your coverage of candidate Lee Poolman?
Commissioners
need to stop blowing smoke on us
It is time for the
Fayette County Commissioners to quit dancing around the public smoking
issue and find some courage. There is no doubt that second-hand smoke
causes serious health problems. No doubt! There can be no argument to
the contrary. “Do you tell somebody who owns a business that they
can’t allow smoking? This is still America.”
Commissioners,
smokers’ rights stop at my nose
In response to commissioners
Pfeifer’s and Dunn’s idiotic comments over the past week about
smoking, I would like to point out a few things that these worldly men
may not know. First, Mr. Dunn in your comment, “If we tell people
not to smoke, are we going to tell them not to drink as well?”
Heart,
arteries also suffer from second-hand smoke
Stop heart attacks
(and other preventable diseases), not smoking! That is all our current
Board of Health smoking proposal does or is meant to do. The 58 percent
drop in the heart attack rate in Helena, Montana within the 6-month
period of their indoor smoking ban, (which then went back up when the
state legislature overturned it) shows that it works. Now you need to
understand why it works.
Gay
rights debate: Moral truth is a form of totalitarianism
I, like Mr. Hoffman,
considered not responding to yet another tantalizingly Southern and
morally haughty letter. But some things cannot be helped.
Remember
that special teacher in your life on Nov. 16
The governor of
Georgia has proclaimed Sunday, Nov.16, 2003 as Retired Educators Day
in Georgia. More than 55,000 retired educators reside in the state of
Georgia while over 300 are citizens of Fayette County. The Georgia Retired
Educators Association has a membership of 14,000 while the Fayette County
Retired Educators Association has a membership of 75.
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