I am a resident of Fayette County and own a small business located near Brooks, Ga. My company, Prima Music, operates a website that sells educational books to music teachers throughout the world. I employ eight to 12 employees.

Until September of last year, I have maintained a group health plan for my employees (most recently with Humana).

Contrary to the promise of President Obama, our healthcare premiums have not gone down. In fact, they have been rising 10 percent to 25 percent annually for the past three years. Read More»

I have heard it said at board meetings and I have read it in the papers: There are two major issues facing our school system:

1. How to reduce our budget by $15 million and,

2. What to do with all of the excess capacity, especially in elementary schools. The quote I have heard is “... we cannot ask the taxpayers to subsidize these empty classrooms”.

While I do agree that these two points sum up our current situation, I cannot agree with the remark on subsidizing. Read More»

I want to begin by thanking Ben Nelms for the nice article on Jpods in the 2/13/13 issue of The Citizen. I write this letter in hopes of providing more background information to the readers and clearing up any confusion about the PRT/JPods concept.

Let me stress that no promise or commitment of building a Jpod system in Fayetteville or Fayette County has been made either in writing or verbally. Read More»

Last week The Citizen published an article that I found appalling and offensive. It was titled, “Why do blacks block vote? Let’s count reasons,” written by Deborah Lum.

Her article, or more correctly her diatribe, was filled with a tremendous amount of mean-spirited and denigrating accusations and hypocrisies. Let’s start with some of Deborah Lum’s mean-spirited and denigrating accusations to set the stage.

“The essence of the Republican Party has been quite unambiguous, thanks to ambassadors of intolerance, dishonesty, incompetence, negativity, bigotry, chicanery, and the asinine.” Read More»