Letters to the Editor

Which council members respond to taxpayer, and which ones don’t . . .

On Thursday, May 9, I sent an email to City Council in which I stated my opinion on the 4th of July tarp restrictions and asking them to vote in favor of one.

To date only two members have replied: Mayor Haddix and Councilwoman Kim Learnard.

Council members Imker, Fleisch and Dienhart: Silence.

What kind of representation is this, if they can’t even respond to a citizen’s concern? If they don’t have time to respond to a taxpaying citizen, do they really have my best interests in mind? Read More»

Learnard: Try positive leadership

How sad it was to open The Citizen newspaper last week, and witness the negative tirades of three citizens who ought to know better.

Haddix, Dienhart, and Bloom used perfectly good print space not to promote our wonderful city or share their vision for meeting our city’s challenges, but to throw down a gauntlet of lies, accusations, and posturing.

If this is what passes for leadership, then Peachtree City is in real trouble. Read More»

Impeach to save our Constitution

Harry Truman’s understanding that “the buck stops here,” meaning with the President of the United States, is not part of the thinking of the Obama administration.

I call into question the leadership of a president who claims not to know anything about anything that could make him appear in a bad light. Read More»

Stormwater: Just more gov’t. bloat

I would like to add a few things to the stormwater debate. It appears to me all the government officials are doing is adding more bureaucracy to the government when there were already road and sewer funds to take care of things like this.

This goes all the way from the federal government down to the mayor, council, and county commissioners. It all starts with a stormwater supervisor and escalates from there. Read More»

Fayette’s soon-to-be inner city school

Some parents of Fayette County believe there is a future inner city school right near Tyrone, Ga. Although Sandy Creek High School has had many academic and athletic successes, lately student behavior at Sandy Creek has led us to believe that the successes of the past are overshadowing the future of this once great high school. Read More»

Haddix: 4 council members flip-flopping on Hwy. 54

My thanks to the members of the Needs Assessment Committee for their work. They did an excellent job putting together a statistically significant survey. The results conform to the results of One Peachtree City and both will be components of the comprehensive strategic plan I hope to move forward on next year. Read More»

Dienhart: ‘I’m against signal, for residents’

During last week’s council meeting, I stated my disappointment that we were still discussing the curb cut into Planterra Ridge and traffic light at the Line Creek Drive intersection.

Over two years ago, City Council promised to protect these residents from the danger and increased travel times represented by this development. It seems that a majority of council members are ready to break that promise. Read More»

Fleisch’s call for yet another traffic study is waste of money

Building a connector road from the proposed large grocery store retail space at “The Overlook” to Planterra Way and/or installing a new traffic light at the intersection of Line Creek Drive and Ga. Highway 54 is a no-starter for me.

Traffic study outcomes can vary based on using different variables and interpreting the data in different ways. Just because a proposed traffic study might say a light is needed, shouldn’t we also try to do the right thing by our citizens and neighborhoods? Read More»

Brown: SPLOSTs sometimes good

The city of Fayetteville recently stated they have $5 million worth of stormwater projects they cannot fund. City staff will be reviewing projects with the mayor and council.

Your Board of Commissioners is using our proposed share of the two-year Core Infrastructure SPLOST proceeds for unincorporated stormwater maintenance and replacement, decades in arrears. We are also committed to adding a clause in the referendum language halting the stormwater fee for residents in the incorporated county stormwater system for four consecutive years if the SPLOST passes. Read More»

Nanny state in Boston; where were ‘militia’?

“Liberty does not make men happy; it makes them men.” Manuel Azana, one-time Prime Minister of Spain, and staunch constitutionalist, said those words in 1935. They are still true of men and women, today. But for how long will we have our liberties?

April 19, 2013. Thousands of people cower in their homes. Some 4,000 heavily armed police officers, many in armored personnel carriers, resembling more an Army than a police force, patrol the streets. Large portions of a major American city are shut down for hours in an illegal, undeclared declaration of martial law. Read More»

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