Mayor Logsdon, during your campaign, you promised to do something about our runaway taxes. It was on this platform that my wife and I supported you and allowed you to place a huge campaign sign in our front yard. Where you once had an “eye of the tiger” mantra to control our taxes, it would appear that you are now losing your stripes.

[On a recent] Saturday afternoon as we were exploring on our golf cart, we heard the sound of drums. Being in close proximity to McIntosh High School, we pulled up to the fence and watched what apparently was a drum and bugle corps practicing for some event, not a football game.

[Former Peachtree City] Mayor [Steve] Brown, I’d like to respond to your letter in last week’s Citizen regarding the incentives given to Cooper Wiring Devices (Cooper). While I’m in agreement with a few of your statements, it is only fair to give the full story about this project.

If an alien came to earth and read Mr. Parker’s latest diatribe, I doubt he would look to Mr. Parker for advice on how to be happy. He is an angry man, and one hopes all of his invective spewing in these pages has some kind of therapeutic effect.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir made one of the most profound statements ever, in 1957, when she told the National Press Club in Washington D.C., “Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us! (Jews)”

I received a phone call from a local reporter last week while I was on vacation. The call was regarding a $20,000 economic development incentive offered to a prospective business in conjunction with incentives from the county and the state.

After the Georgia legislature recently passed the mandatory class size requirements, there obviously will be some good as well as bad news. Students and teachers will be seeing fewer individuals in their respective classes.

There are many outstanding women in this community. I would like to tell you about some of the remarkable contributions that have been made to the people of Fayette County.

I’m writing to encourage voters in Fayette County to ... consider voting for Jack Smith as the best hope for a fair, honest and effective commissioner.

“The masses are a feckless lot — nowhere will you find more ignorance or irresponsibility or violence. It would be an intolerable thing to escape the murderous caprice of a king, only to be caught by the equally wanton brutality of the rabble. A king does at least act consciously and deliberately; but the mob does not. Indeed, how should it, when it has never been taught what is right and proper and has no knowledge of its own about such things? The masses handle affairs without thought; all they can do is to rush blindly into politics like a river in flood. As for the people then, let them govern Persia’s enemies, but let us ourselves choose a certain number of the best men in the country, and give them political power. We personally shall be among them, and it is only natural to suppose that the best men will produce the best policy.”

It is astounding to listen and watch as the world wails about the supposedly innocent civilians that have been killed during this latest attempt to exterminate the Jewish people from their tiny piece of land in the Middle East.

To say I was disappointed in the outcome of [the July 18] primary county commission election is an understatement.

Where were the voters? Only around 11,000 people got out and voted, so that means in the commission election just over 5,000 in a county of over 100,000 people decided the direction it will take in the future.

I urge the voters of Fayette County to return to the polls on Aug. 8 and complete the job we started.

Jack Smith offers us the best opportunity for intergovernmental cooperation between the cities, towns and the county. Jack will look out for the interests of all municipalities and make sure all are treated equally and fairly.

Greg Dunn lost his bid for reelection to the Fayette County Commission, but I think that time will show that the real losers are the citizens of Fayette County.

Thank you, Greg Dunn, for the service you gave to the county. In this day and age, I have a hard time understanding who would want to go into politics when they have to suffer the slings and arrows of the race.

Recently we, the members of the Fayette County branch of the NAACP, were saddened again by the death of a young man killed in a shooting, resulting from another senseless crime and the inability of our young African-American men to handle disputes in a non-violent way.

Dear citizens, thank you for your votes, your support and your prayers. Even though we got more than 48 percent of the vote, we will have to return to the polls on Aug. 8 for a run off.

The July 18 vote in Fayette County has turned aside Greg Dunn, a principled county chairman.

The winner in this race claimed that Chairman Dunn was wasteful, controversial and untrustworthy and therefore asked for a vote more against Dunn than for him. That is simply politics.

I wish to say thank you to Greg Dunn.

Greg, you have served on our county commission for eight years and have done a fantastic job.

To the residents of Peachtree City: My husband and I were yet again delighted to spend some vacation time in Peachtree City visiting family and friends.

There have been a couple of accusations made against me regarding what I said, or rather what I did not say, about lawyers in a recent letter.

This letter is in response to the review by F.C. Foodie of the new Fayetteville restaurant, Pies On Pizza.

I don’t know how long F.C. Foodie has been in Fayette County, but pretty much everyone in Fayetteville knows that Ga. Highway 74 is NOT in Fayetteville. Do your research.

I am a lifelong resident of Toccoa, Stephens County, Ga. I have just read in our local newspaper, The Toccoa Record, what a courteous and generous event took place in Brooks, Ga., this past week.

It is truly the oldest story in the book. When Eve was tempted by the Serpent, she was basically making a deal: I will give up obedience to God’s laws in return for knowledge of good and evil. In other words, control.

Judge Chris Edwards was the keystone speaker at the Baccalaureate ceremony for Fayette County High School in May 2000. His speech was printed by The Citizen on May 31, 2000, under the title, “You can’t change the world until you change.”

In a long-forgotten speech delivered to the Radio & Television News Directors Association in 1958, legendary CBS newsman and journalist Edward R. Murrow offered the following warning to a young industry at a critical juncture in our postwar history:

I have a good deal of respect for our local paper and am hoping that you can answer some questions for me.

Isn’t it true that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2005 for the reestablished Fulbright program?

I am a Peachtree City homeowner and business owner. I was pleased to find the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Board’s survey online because my household was not part of the original sample of 1,000 that received the surveys in the mail (how our population was sampled is an important issue in its own right).

Can you please inform the general public of Fayette County to go to the Fayette County Board of Education Web site to vote on the school calendar?

In 2004, only 27 percent of voters cast their ballots on voting machines in states requiring a paper trail. But this year, 65 percent of voters have a paper trail or are about to have one. Paper trails are now in the majority.