The Peachtree City Council doesn’t care about our city at all. The Kohl’s idea on Ga. Highway 54 will cause more traffic disconnects. The most disappointing part is Mayor Harold Logsdon’s support of liquor sales at public city events. Anybody can buy alcohol at liquor or grocery stores, so there’s no need to promote such sales at public city events too. Wouldn’t it be more noble for the mayor to promote not carousing in the public square? I can remember when our city had decent family values. With the lying, overly large developments, TDK and liquor sales at City Hall, the mayor is heading for a pitiable legacy.
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If the City Council of PTC is stupid enough to build TDK with just two lanes, we deserve the beating we will take for it. I’ve had discussions with several of the developers on the Coweta side and they are going dense and deep. They also have the complete backing of the Coweta Commission. Mayor Logsdon’s lie about TDK being a quiet little road only being used by employees in the industrial park is blurring the truth that four lanes are needed or we will see traffic back ups like we have never seen before. Pathway got knocked out of Sharpsburg because the county people hate them. Sharpsburg doesn’t have sewer and the county won’t play with them. There’s still a lot of heartburn over some of past SummerGrove issues. Doug Mitchell is not the king in Coweta like he was in PTC. That property will be developed in the county. Get smart and go with four lanes. Having to go four lanes soon after the two-lane construction will be twice as expensive and four times the trouble. And we WILL have to go four lanes in the very near future.
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Why do we want the traffic and added crime potential from building a Kohl’s store on our busiest road? We can go to Kohl’s in Fayetteville. We made it clear years ago that we didn’t want that kind of troublesome development in PTC. What about all the sales tax dollars we’re going to lose from the big shopping development on the other side of TDK? How are we going to make up those lost tax dollars if we build TDK? This looks like another two-faced deal from Mayor Logsdon and company.
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No to Kohl’s. No, no, no! Another big box store isn’t the answer; it’s another problem.
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For the DirectPAC, hell hath no fury like the local government leaving a green patch of land left undeveloped. We’re letting a political action committee and their political puppets ruin our community. Don’t trade parks for big box stores. Kill the Kohl’s. We don’t want to be like every other boring place.
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Now Logsdon wants to add sports fields with expensive artificial turf ($750,000 each) and expand the Gathering Place at a cost of $650,000. Where’s the money coming from? We used to have voter referendums on projects like these. He’s already raised our taxes and blown a million dollars on the corrupt development authority. All of Logsdon’s promises of financial discipline and restraint were pure bull. His vision for the city is so out of touch that only God knows what this place in going to look like in five years because of his veering off the planned community path. The mayor is not even close to being a fiscal conservative; he’s more of a fiscal fraud.
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One afternoon of Judge Floyd on the bench will do far more damage to our community than an eternity of typographical errors by Rep. Lakly. We support you, Dan.
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Illegal immigration in Peachtree City’s golfing industry: Granted at one time our forefathers came here like all the Latin Americans are arriving in this country. We were all illegals at one time, but what gets me is that as time progressed we adapted to this country by reading, writing, and speaking English. You have other nationalities who come in our country and they learn the basics of becoming Americans. Being around illegal immigrants for the past seven years working with them, I am glad that I don’t work around them anymore. Here are people who are here illegally and I know that they are because most of them don’t know their own birthday and yet this company still hires them. I have written out application for employment because they don’t know how to write English and it came to the point that my supervisor wouldn’t hire anyone just because they were Americans. That upset me because here is someone that can write, speak and read English and he doesn’t want to hire them because of this. When I started for this company we didn‘t have any Latin Americans working for us and everything got done in the same amount of time. Granted they are good workers, but I did the same amount of work they did and got the job done better. This company I am talking about needs to look into how the managers are spending their money with the illegals. Giving them personal leave when they have not been working for at least three or four months. I was being paid to babysit the illegals instead of doing my job. Writing their lunches down, seeing someone pay for them to get out of jail, going to court to translate for them — come on, give me a break. So the next time members like to play golf they need to know what their membership dues are really going to: Giving them more overtime for something that when I worked I got done without the overtime.
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I give Fayette County Commissioner Eric Maxwell a lot of credit for having the guts to speak out alone. At the last meeting he questioned the sense of paying the county lawyers hundreds of dollars an hour to look up simple information in the tax office that a high school student could do in the afternoons. Imagine that — Maxwell, a lawyer, willing to question the bills of another lawyer. Not many lawyers would do that these days. It seems like the other commissioners need to take notice and undo some of this “get along, go along.”
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We need someone to step up and run against Tyrone Town Councilman Mike Smola. It’s time to return Tyrone back to the people. Since we can’t recall Mayor Lee for lying to the voters about her intentions on rezoning the newest Wieland subdivision, our best option is to take away her majority on the council. We are now faced with our schools becoming overcrowded and our attendance districts redrawn in the future, thanks to Lee and Smola. It’s time to elect someone who listens to the taxpayers.
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I guess the new pavement of choice for Fayette County is crusher run. There’s a deep hole on Old Norton Road behind Bank of Georgia that’s about the size of a burial plot that’s been there since last year. The city engineer says he’s investigated and he can’t find anyone that knows why the pavement was cut to begin with and that he would have it taken care of. Well, I guess the way they took care of it was put dirt and gravel in it and remove the orange construction cones so that cars can still run off the pavement. Come on, Fayette County, as much property taxes as we spend in this county, we should at least have decent roads.
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Mr. Beckwith’s letter, “We should support President’s Iraq plan” was a verbatim copy from the Republican National Committee at http://www.gop.com/GetActive/WriteNewspapers.aspx. Sure beats thinking!
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I no longer send complaints via the USPS website. They reply by asking for the same information provided in the original complaint. The Post Office does not want to hear from us. I love it when they ask for the exact time an incident occurred. “Please forgive me, but when the mail carrier tossed my package into the ditch during a rain storm, I was busy doing something else. I also missed the day a six-ounce package (too big to fit inside) was left on top of my mailbox during a high wind. It blew all the way to the next street. And who the heck is this person and why are his bills in my mailbox? And where’s my mail?” I make it clear to all Internet vendors my that packages must never be shipped by USPS or they will not get my business. I suggest keeping a log sheet of all problems and errors, especially mail belonging to other patrons, and sending the documented information including dates, times, addresses and phone numbers if available directly to Postmaster General John E. Potter. Paying bills online is becoming more of a necessity than a luxury.
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Bob Woodruff’s recovery: I was very happy for the Woodruff family to see the wonderful recovery that Bob has made so far. I’m also very happy to see that out of such a horrible situation something so positive as helping the wounded soldiers receive better care has happened. I’m a mother of three sons; I see these soldiers walking through the Atlanta Airport all the time and I think about their families. I have a 19-year-old nephew going to Iraq soon and I’m scared for him. I’m ashamed that our government is lying to us about the care they’re providing our wounded soldiers. I feel like we’re being used. To quote Mr. Nicholson, “A lot of them come in for dental problems.” I want to ask Mr. Nicholson, how stupid do you think we are? I felt his comment was insulting.
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Bush wants another $100 billion of your tax money and 20,000 more live bodies to pour into Iraq. Anyone with a half ounce of intelligence knew before we went into Iraq that a stable democratic government could never be achieved in a country of fanatics such as that. Now you are paying astronomical prices for everyday commodities as a result. The already outrageous price of gasoline just jumped up another 40 plus cents in the last two weeks. Housing sales are in the worst slump in over 20 years. Businesses are going bankrupt at a rate never before seen in the history of this country. Those that are still in business are laying off employees and cutting salaries. Are people not aware that this country is going down the tube with the inept leadership we have in Washington?
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Just a few snips from the want ads. Receptionist —Must speak Spanish. Contracting Careers — All applicants must speak Spanish and understand English. Welding instructor — Must speak Spanish. Retail sales consultant/store manager — Must speak Spanish.
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Hidden in plain sight. “In God we trust” is on the edge of the new one-dollar coin.
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The U.S. Congress spends more on itself than any other legislature in the world, with annual costs rising from $343 million in 1970 to an estimated $4.4 billion in 2006. Are they more ethical, honest, and efficient today than in 1970?