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Race,
numbers, perceptions in Fayette schools
By
J. FRANK LYNCH
jflynch@theCitizenNews.com
I received an unsigned
e-mail last week accusing me of being racist. The sender told me that
a letter-writing campaign was about to begin in an attempt to have me
fired, and an apology was ordered. People are canceling their subscriptions,
it declared.
Field
of Hope now depends on you
By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com
If our community
doesn’t raise $106,000 in the next few weeks for the Fayette Field
of Hope, we will have missed an incredible opportunity.
Lawsuit
lottery hikes costs of Ga. healthcare
Guest Editorial By The Medical Association
of Georgia
You would be hard
pressed to find a single Georgian to disagree that the cost of healthcare
is staggering. This fact is evidenced by increases in health insurance
premiums, higher deductibles, more out of pocket expenses, less coverage,
fewer employers offering health insurance as a benefit and the ever
increasing number of uninsured citizens. What may not be so evident
is the role in this problem played by out of control medical liability
lawsuits.
Clearing
the air on saving lives
By R.
HAROLD BROWN
Adjunct Scholar
Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Did you know that
America’s cleaner air has saved more than 2.5 million lives over
20 years? It was news to me, but it must be true: It’s reported
on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Web site.
- LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
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- Within
a decade, gays will get equal rights
After reading
Dr. Throckmorton’s column (“Howard Dean, biotheologian,”
The Citizen, Jan. 14, 2004) I was left to wonder as to his intended
purpose of the column.
Does
God approve of sin, if all are born as sinners?
Echoing Dr. Throckmorton’s
sentiments last week on Dr. Dean’s “biotheology,” I
too find Dr. Dean’s rationalization problematic, to the say the
least.
It
is Solicitor Harris’s job to prosecute allegations of spouse abuse
I am a practicing
attorney in Fayette County. I do a lot of criminal defense and divorce
litigation. I have done battle with the solicitor-general’s office
many times, and I have had the occasion to represent people in divorce
and criminal cases who have been the victims of family violence.
It’s
time to switch from sheriff to county police
I am shocked over
the pompous attitude of Sheriff Randall Johnson. Sheriff Johnson is
fully aware of the fact that the Fayette County Marshals Department
was created in 1983 and certified in 1989 by Georgia Peace Officer
Standards and Training Council as a state law enforcement agency,
before the 1992 law, because his top deputy at the time became the
chief of the newly formed agency.
Save
money by turning marshals into deputies
I read with interest
John Thompson’s article, “Dunn speaks out on lawsuit.”
As I read it, I thought, What is going on here? I thought back to my
childhood when two of us kids fought over whose side would bat first.
Iraq
sidetracked our necessary war on terror
Mr. Smith assures
us he is no fool. I can only point to his self-professed sources of
information, and seeming inability to distill my salient points as evidence
to the contrary. I’m also at a loss as to the need to shout support
for my brothers in arms whilst opposing the policies of the silver-spoon,
draft-dodging, AWOL-from-the-ANG current inhabitant of the oval office.
If Mr. Smith wants a copy of my DD 214, I’ll be happy to forward
him one.
How
shortsighted and selective are Iraq critics
Airline communities
throughout the country, including Fayette County, are home to the only
people left in the U.S., besides the thousands of relatives of the victims
of 9/11 in New York, and our military communities, that remember what
happened on that awful day, and above all, are still waging the war
that our President declared on terrorism.
Conservative
Herman Cain gets need for tax reforms
Finally, we have
a United States Senate candidate who understands the need for fundamental
tax and Social Security reform. A candidate who believes in our principles
and values.
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