A wedding in spring — what a lovely setting: Peachtree City, City Hall Plaza. Amidst the sultry beauty of a Georgia spring evening all gathered to honor the bride and groom. There it was: a Saturday night, a beautiful silk wedding tent, with lovely bows and ribbons, all in gentle pastel colors. The flowers were beautiful. The wine (and brewskis for Mr. Mayor) flowed freely. Some thought it was a bike race reception but truly it was a glorious union between the taxpayers as groom and the bride, the latest offering of the beautiful people, funding for another “world class offering,” officiated by the Rev. Doug Warner. The taxpayer groom may now kiss the bride (and the bonded indebtedness). Next nuptials: Airport Authority.

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Fayetteville the Beautiful? Re: Islands on Jeff Davis North between Ga. highways 54 and 85. Suggestion: That curbs be poured around each island. This would prevent those making turns from driving over the grass ends. Currently the ends of each island are nothing but a mud hole, a disgrace to the city. This is an inexpensive project that would allow landscaping, and really express the motto, “Fayetteville the Beautiful.” P.S.: The greatest disgrace to the city is the junkyard between Hwy. 54 east and west. Somebody needs to do whatever is necessary to eliminate this most unattractive business in the center of town. Please, whatever it takes, do it.

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I was so disappointed after attending my church on Easter Sunday. The Easter music was great. However, when the senior pastor got ready to preach, his sermon was on Daniel. Did someone forget to tell him that it was Easter Sunday?

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I would like to see Fayetteville Police Department patrol Beauregard Boulevard and Apple Orchard, particularly in the mornings. For example, this morning I attempted to pull out of our subdivision (Medford) and could not move for five minutes or more. I counted 10 or more vehicles who did not stop at the stop sign but eased on through.

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Image and respect: It is well-known that gyms are viewed as facilities filled with meat heads, gym rats, home-wreckers and a place to flirt. I am a person that has despised these negative allegations being a person that has made a career and enjoys fitness. It is hard to dispute these stereotype images when our local gym condones a certain individual to conduct himself in such a manner. For years I have watched a certain person conduct himself with such child-like behavior and play ladies to fill his pathetic empty ego. I have seen ladies that I once respected fall victim to his stupid acts and behavior. To think an organization would support someone like this is appalling to me. I applaud the ladies that have put him in his place. Ladies, respect yourselves more then to get caught up in such discrediting behavior. Be on the lookout for that individual wearing a head wrap that your local palm reader wears and undermining smile that has alternative motives behind it. You need to realize you are one of many that is receiving this type of attention from this low-life creep. If one lady reads this article and arms herself from this pathetic individual, this was worth writing.

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In response to the lead story in today’s April 11 issue of The Citizen, I smell a rat also but a different rat from the one the DA smells. The one I smell is humiliation and retaliation from what must have been a scathing TV news broadcast. If the DFCS spokeswoman states that “decisions are made as a judgment call on a case-by-case basis,” the fact that Ms. Clark’s children were placed with their grandmother instead of with complete strangers in foster care is a non-issue. I thought one of the goals of DFCS was to look out for the children and keep them in the family if possible. The children have been affected enough by this. They should be with their grandmother. Fayette DFCS, remove your personal feelings and obvious bad feelings from the situation and you should be able to see this. I also smell another rat of possible prior bad blood and office politics between the Fulton and Fayette County DFCS offices. The article ends by stating that the initial complaint about the child’s injuries were reported by the elementary school as if to say that the Fayette DFCS didn’t have anything to do with the initial allegation. Don’t patronize us: We all know that the DFCS and the schools have built relationships in order to report and combat alleged child abuse, so all it took was a phone call and a mention of Ms. Clark’s name and if there truly was prior bad blood/feelings between the two offices, then the Fayette DCFS had the ball in their court. My advice to Ms. Clark is hire herself a good lawyer and fight all those rats.

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The Westside Village deal is moving forward. Isn’t it strange when the city sends out surveys to citizens asking about annexation, the majority of citizens say don’t annex, and the planning commission moves it forward with their fingers in their ears. The Logsdon years will be known as the time when government went deaf.

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How did local developer Scott Bradshaw get on the city’s Impact Tax Committee? The guy was part of the development authority. You have a city of 33,000 people and somehow this same tiny group of people keeps on getting reappointed to these groups. Of course he’s not having public committee meetings. How many times do we get burned before we learn?

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I’ve read several times in The Citizen that the DOT is six-laning Ga. Highway 74 from Crosstown to Ga. Highway 54. How long will it be before they decide that 74 needs to be six--laned all the way up to Interstate 85? I can see it coming. Goodbye to the few remaining trees. I am so glad for the railroad tracks alongside part of Hwy. 74. At least we won’t have ugly shopping centers stuck in there, too.

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There should be a moratorium on building any new retail in Peachtree City until all the existing retail is full. Look at all the “For Lease” signs in the new strip malls they’ve built along Hwy. 74, not to mention poor Braelinn Center. Fill those up first, then (maybe) build more retail. It’s just stupid to build more empty buildings.

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Mayor Logsdon is now saying he was just a telephone lineman and not the financial genius he made himself out to be. He also told a group of us the entire City Council opposes TDK, but he would not commit to stopping the road expansion. He needs to resign immediately and someone on the council needs to step up and lead our city. Unfortunately, the guy just will not listen to the local homeowners. Some say there is something shady about it all; I don’t know. What I do know is that I’m now ready to sign a vote of no-confidence petition in an effort to get the mayor to resign.

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Harold Logsdon has a bold new vision for Peachtree City and if Steve Brown and the other losers don’t like it they should pack up and leave. Do not believe what you read in the newspaper about Direct PAC. They are an honest group of men and women who work behind the scenes to protect the city.

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I was catching up on my newspapers and nearly fell out of my chair when I read Mayor Logsdon’s reply to Mr. Soper’s letter to the editor. The mayor actually writes he thinks following the land plan is a good idea. The plan says don’t annex the Westside. Doesn’t the plan also say stay away from big box stores? Spinning these tales might work at the local saloon, but they aren’t working with the sober drivers stuck in traffic to and from work everyday.

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High-end drug dealing and violent crime are on the rise in Fayette County. Does anyone really believe that it won’t get worse with more big box stores and extending TDK? I really pray the rumor about Harold Logsdon sending the Lowe’s denial back to the Planning Commission to get it approved another way isn’t true.

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Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and Peachtree City’s Direct PAC are both a disgrace. Both were doggedly determined to wrong the innocent. Both had agendas outside the sphere of public justice. I’ve seen offenses in the court system, and I’ve represented many against whom a claim has been brought in a court. But I have never seen injustice to the degree of what Nifong and Direct PAC engaged in. We can only hope the Duke lacrosse players and Steve Brown sue these tormenters so that they never have the opportunity to do wrong to others again.

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To the writers calling for Bush’s impeachment, tell me what part of the constitution has he violated, which is basically the only reason for impeachment. Is it the lowest unemployment rate in recent history, the highest stock market in history or the biggest tax cut in 40 years, which by the way, aided the middle class more than the rich since they can take care of themselves in any case? Or is it that you just can’t stand his winning the election, not once, but twice? Personally, I don’t think either the Democrats or Republicans deserve to be in power, but we need a new party and a responsible leader, but that’s another fairy tale. Also, I don’t follow anybody who personally attacks another by calling him names, like stupid or draft dodger. Bush, for example is not stupid. As a Yale graduate, that should be apparent. You may not agree with his stance, but that is not the same thing. And calling a member of the Air National Guard, or anyone who did not serve in the armed forces a draft dodger is a disservice to anyone who did not. Certainly anyone in the Guard should be vastly insulted. As to the gentleman who talked about the Vietnam War, a Democratic war which I opposed, he seems to forget that the Americans were hogtied by the President and Congress, by refusing to allow troops to cross into North Vietnam, while they were allowed to attack us at will. Even their former commanders recently admitted they would have given up if we had done so. Sounds a little like the present Congress and the weeping horde that cries for pulling out today, doesn’t it.

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I am so tired of hearing people refer to their race as “something”-American. Folks, if you live in this country you are an American, plain and simple. I’m happy for you if you know your ancestry, but don’t hyphenate it with America. I am white and of European decent, but I don’t refer to myself as a “European”-American. We shouldn’t have to hyphenate races just to be politically correct. Everyone is equal in this country, but a color is a color.

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America is no longer a free country unless you are a member of the minority community. We let the approximately 14 percent in the minority section dictate to the rest of us. If you are not in that group and you speak your mind you will probably be fired from your job and possibly sued for everything you own. That is why we are no longer respected in the eyes of the rest of the world.

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Imus is just another piece of flotsam floating to the top of the sewer of “popular culture” for his 15 minutes of shame and then sucked down to well-earned oblivion.

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The fact that others are dragging the right to free speech through the mud without facing consequences meted out to Imus doesn’t remove the fact that he has abused that “right” just once too often.

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If legal U.S. citizens — who happen to be parents — commit crimes and are caught, what happens to their children?

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If officials who expose confidential records when their laptops are lost or stolen had any techno-smarts, they would install software that connects their laptop to data on the office computer and requires a password to access.

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The welcome mat for legal immigrants is threadbare. It has been trampled under the feet of millions of illegal aliens.