Bush's
latest idea violates Hay's law
By DAVE HAMRICK
Editor-at-large
My first publisher,
a wise man named Tom Hay, once told me that it's OK to make people mad,
as long as you don't make everybody mad at once.
Empowerment
zone ought to help those who persevered
By AMY RILEY
One
Citizen's Perspective
With former President
Bill Clinton scheduled to move into his newly renovated 14th story,
8,300-square-foot office space in Harlem this week, most media sources
will focus on the obvious, that the new economic Harlem renaissance
is a modern day Cinderella story.
Spamming
the globe . . .
By BILLY
MURPHY
Laugh Lines
The spam, these
days, is sizzling like a car full of trailer park kids, waiting for
their mom in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Even though Britney Spears really
wasn't in a car wreck and the Queen of England didn't turn out to be
into "Big Bad Mommas" magazine, there are still plenty of
items to spoof.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Power
plant 'facts' a little smoky themselves
Subject: "Power
plant story gets facts, figures wrong" [from Fulton Energy Co.
spokesman Dan Skizim, Letters to the Editor, The Citizen, July 18].
Rapson
right to oppose tax hike in PTC budget
I witnessed some
authentic fiscal leadership from Councilman Steve Rapson at the July
19 Peachtree City Council budget workshop meeting. Rapson is a natural-born
number cruncher, and he made some excellent points at the workshop.
Unfortunately the other three council members present (Dan Tennant was
out of town) took a dim view of Rapson's positions.
Abortion
decision is not so simple and not so safe
This letter is in
response to Suzanne Sports' letter to the editor July 11. I am convinced
that men such as Father David Epps (in The Citizen Review, July 6) does
very much understand what an agonizing decision it is to seek an abortion
and the horrific circumstances that accompany it. Also, along with that
he fully recognizes that abortion is the taking of a human life.
Where's
the compassion in abortion debate?
It's been about
10 years now since I wrote a letter in response to an accusation in
a local paper that pro-choice individuals were baby-killers. At that
time I received quite a few extremely frightening phone calls from pro-life
individuals; hence my request to have my name withheld from my letter.
Call me a coward and I'll wear the tag because those people scared me.
Fayette
principal gets award for stopping student harassment of gay teen
On Friday evening,
July 13, Enlight Atlanta presented an award to Dr. Charles Warr, the
Fayette County principal who had the courage and commitment to his students
to stop harassment based on sexual orientation. A recent survey by Enlight
Atlanta exposed the prevalence of sexual orientation and gender identity
harassment in Atlanta area schools.
Lack
of child health care is an American shame
Three readers' response
to my July 4 call for a strong Patients' Bill of Rights had been posted
in The Citizen (I am sure you know in the end the Senate passed a relatively
strong bill).
Dentists
keep us waiting, but don't dare keep them waiting
We all have to face
little ups and downs; that's just life. Sometimes some of our doctors
and dentists refuse to accept these ups and downs and charge us for
being late or missing an appointment and never mention how many times
we have been kept waiting for them.
AT&T's
auto-pay fee is wrong
AT&T's auto-pay
fee is wrong
Sallie's
column brings back memories
I enjoyed [The Citizen
columnist Sallie Satterthwaite's] reminiscence of Jim Hudson. He was
a wonderful man, although one time I wanted to wring his neck.
Answer
to poverty is not more government spending, but less
The real problem
with poverty is that it defies definition or so it would seem as we
continue to lower the bar just at the time we seem to be catching up
with it.
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