I see where Gloria Furr is running for a second term as councilwoman in Tyrone on a 4-NO platform: NO vision; NO plan; NO progress; NO problem, Grace will tell me how to vote.

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In response to S.O.S. or Save our Summers, I do NOT agree with extending summer vacation. My kids are bored and are ready to get back to school. It is too hot in August to go outside and play. I am a working parent and would love to see a year-round school schedule adopted in Fayette County. You are right, I can’t take all my vacation in the summer, so I go to work and my kids stay home. I can’t say that I have any more time with them at all. So, extending summer break would just be more of the same. At least with year-round school, we’d have several two- or three-week breaks throughout the year and I would be able to take vacations. We’d still have four to five weeks of summer vacation. I think Fayette County BOE should re-visit the option of year-round school and see if the student scores are better in these school districts. It would be more like a home schooling system to me. The kids would be learning throughout the year.

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How can you not be totally mortified by the PTC Council and the Fayette County Commissioners’ power play for more taxes? President Obama would be so proud. You’d think unemployment at 10 percent and major cutbacks throughout the country would be a red flag for our elected kings and queens to maybe hold off on pounding us serfs with another SPLOST tax. It’s time to start voting out the incumbents and see if we can get some people with common sense to replace them. The sorry Logsdon bunch is just killing us, one decision after another. The commissioners need to get rid of the sorry bypass. Spending money just to spend it and asking for another tax increase while my child has to abandon his dream and leave Vanderbilt to attend college at home because we can’t afford it means Frady, Smith, Maxwell, Horgan and Hearn need to get the heck out of office. They’re just plain greedy.

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What we’ve got on our hands in Fayette County is a bunch of RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) who are just tickled pink when it comes to raising our taxes. Not a one of them feels uncomfortable about frittering away our taxes on the ridiculous Fayette bypass deal. The school board is an embarrassment. Jack Smith and the mayors are pulling out their wish lists of pet projects. You can bet they don’t give a darn about the pain many of us are going through. When a lot of people are smarting financially, they want to heap all of their long-term debts on us now. I hope everyone remembers this when it’s time to mark a ballot.

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An issue I have with there never being anyone at the fire station in the pavilion when I go by to get my blood pressure checked: No big deal, right? One of the most important aspects of having strategically placed fire stations throughout the county is to be able to provide a fast response when called upon. I found out yesterday that someone called for a woman who was in cardiac arrest and couldn’t call. Sadly, the closest fire station to her location was not home. I asked if they were on another call and found out they were not. I was told that the response time for the first arriving unit was just under 10 minutes. After arriving there they stayed there for close to an hour before driving the lady to the hospital and letting a doctor confirm that their delayed response ultimately played a key factor in this woman’s outcome. You were just on the news bragging about how you could be anywhere in five minutes or less. Well, were were you this time? I don’t like the fact that most people have a false sense of security in this county. The fire service here needs to be run with a little more consideration of the citizens and less of the consideration of padding some chief’s résumé.

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I’ve tried my best to stay loyal to Mayor Logsdon. I talked him up during his election, and put the sign in the yard. But I’m throwing up my hands on his latest call for a tax increase and a new SPLOST. My neighbors are moving to Sharpsburg because they see the costs in PTC going up and the value going down. I’m a contractor by trade and my work has dropped off by almost 60 percent. It’s pretty disappointing for me to hear my mayor and city council keep asking for more money in times like these. My two cents worth.

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Funny how the “suspicious cart path activity” went away so quickly. Surely nothing bad could ever happen on our paths. After all, we are one of the best small cities in America. I personally know the three boys that were attacked. Come on, police, be honest with your citizens.

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Recall election for Horgan? What a monumental waste of money. True that what Horgan did is indeed a horrific example for our youth. But I agree with Cal Beverly that the spending habits of the County Commission show a lack of sense and perhaps a lack of sobriety. What’s the big deal about Horgan? Really. Harold Bost wasted $50,000 of county money because he bailed out of his term as commissioner after two short months, under questionable circumstances, and we were forced to hold a special election. Now Bost the Florida man is wanting to play politics again, insisting that we need a special election. Say “No” to this ridiculous recall waste of money and send Boca Raton Bost back to Florida.

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What a wonderful site to see sidewalks coming back into our community. I sure hope the trend continues; it would be great to have one down Hood Avenue past the schools for the many kids I see out walking. While you are at it, how about down Gingercake and Sandy Creek with a sidewalk or cart path for all the walkers and bikers? In the new “going green” times I think it would be a great idea to have more accessibility for bicyclist and walkers. What about a walk-over bridge at Ga. Highway 54 and the hospital to the new shopping center and community behind the center, one such as Peachtree City has for better access for all.

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Maybe our Fayette County teachers will follow the lead of Kathy Cox and file bankruptcy since they are getting a pay cut from the county and furloughs from the state. What is next? Will the feds take some for heath care? The Fayette County Board of Education is in bad shape. Is theirs a cash for dummies stimulus plan? They need it fast.

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Last Wednesday the usual group of seniors were gathered to play their weekly bunco. In marched the director, senior services director and a volunteer who was introduced as an attorney. He told the seniors to place their gift cards in their pockets because they were no longer playing for prizes (a very ugly attitude). These seniors have been playing for two years. What brought this to this climax was that a group had been playing poker for money and they had to stop this. The administration had allowed this bunco group to play for almost two years. If this is illegal, why are they sponsoring a bus trip to Shorter, Ala., for a gambling trip? Some answers need to be forthcoming.

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This is to the thief who took a couple of items, including a $500 radar detector, at a yard sale on July 31 on Prestwick Court in Peachtree City. Did it ever occur to you that most people these days have yard sales to make some extra money? I hope you are proud of yourself, you pathetic loser. As the saying goes, what goes around comes around. You will get yours in the end. In the meantime, hope you enjoy the radar detector.

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Is Scott Rowland another PTC Trojan Horse mayoral candidate? As a refresher, the term comes from the Greek story of the Trojan War, in which the Greeks give a giant wooden horse to their foes, the Trojans, ostensibly as a peace offering. But after the Trojans drag the horse inside their city walls, Greek soldiers sneak out of the horse’s hollow belly and open the city gates, allowing their compatriots to pour in and capture Troy. Is Scott Rowland yet another of these insider candidates that do the bidding of the few, the proud and the well-monied? Mr. Rowland comes to the political arena with credentials consisting of membership in the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary. No other political, civic, church or volunteer experience is noted. While one would normally laud his Eagle Scout achievement and agree with his observation that it proves “that I am willing to work hard to achieve a goal,” one would have to ask, What are your goals if you sit in the mayor’s chair? Mr. Rowland pledges to “reward members of the community for their achievements and contributions.” Pardon me, but is it not that precise thinking that plunged us into the PTC Development Authority scandal, in which newly minted Mayor Logsdon (now candidate for state insurance company commissioner, wading in cash) gladly wrote a check for $1.5 million to bail out bad bank loans? Always troubling to me is when someone who is new and unknown to community has the hubris to run for the top spot before acquiring the experience and background of lesser positions first. The result is politicians who do what they are told to do rather than decide for themselves what is best to do.

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Judge Sotomayor is going to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice even after she said several times that a wise Latina woman would make a better decision on the law than a white man. Senators from the Democrat Party don’t have a problem with her declared prejudice position on race and gender and will vote for her. Do you think they would feel the same if the Republicans nominated some guy who said that a white dude would make better decisions than some Hispanic chick? Those liberals are so dishonest.