Opinion

Brooks thrift shop plans big sales for anniversary Thursday

Second Chance Thrift Shop in Brooks will celebrate its fourth birthday June 20-22 with special sales and much more.

Begun as an outreach of Brooks United Methodist Church in 2009, the shop is staffed entirely by volunteers and assists families with limited incomes. Nearly 100 percent of the profits are shared between local, national, and international missions, and the church. Read More»

One more time for Mr. Lincoln and history

Terry Garlock's picture

Mr. Parker didn’t get the point of my column about Memorial Day and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address two weeks ago, so I’ll repeat the point here in fewer words: If you want to know the truth, you often must probe well below the surface veneer of popular history. Read More»

Then what in Syria?

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Two recent newspaper editorials illustrate the double-mindedness some feel about President Obama’s decision to provide small arms and ammunition to Syrian rebels.

The Washington Post headlined an editorial: “No time for half-measures: Syria’s rebels need a robust intervention from the Obama administration.” The New York Times took a more realistic approach: “After Arming the Rebels, Then What? President Obama should be careful about being dragged into the brutal Syrian war.”

I’m on the side of the Times. Read More»

Economics vs. ‘need’

Thomas Sowell's picture

One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a “need” for foreign workers to do “jobs that Americans won’t do,” especially in agriculture.

One of my most vivid memories of the late Armen Alchian, an internationally renowned economist at UCLA, involved a lunch at which one of the younger members of the economics department got up to go get some more coffee. Being a considerate sort, the young man asked, “Does anyone else need more coffee?” Read More»

Miss Eudora’s house

Ronda Rich's picture

In the past several years, I have had as much luck visiting the historically preserved home of Southern iconic writer, Eudora Welty, as I would have had when she was alive. The front door is always shut to me. Read More»

District voting = pork by district

Mr. Lowry, you are entitled to your opinion, but it one with which I strongly disagree.

You are correct that at-large voting has been in Fayette County for 191 years; I am of the opinion that it has worked well and afforded every registered county voter the right to influence every countywide election.

Presently, each representative on the County Commission and on the Board of Education is my personal employee. Their collective decisions are accountable to all of the registered county voters. Read More»

So, let’s get down to core of Common Core: ‘Rigor’

I was fortunate to attend a forum at Sam’s Auditorium recently in which a panel of educators and organizers brought the discussion of the pros and cons of the Common Core National Standards. Common Core is here in Georgia, sanctioned by Governor Nathan Deal, which is now mandated to all public schools in this state.

What was interesting for me were the highly degreed individuals who are currently working in school administration today and of course who represented the pro Common Core side of the panel. Read More»

PTC Council and traffic on Hwy. 54W.: Trail of red herrings

Roadblocks erected by Mayor Haddix and Mr. Dienhart in the Peachtree City Council threaten to perpetuate and expand the traffic jam on Ga. Highway 54 West.

The commercial development at Line Creek Drive south of Hwy. 54 continues to languish but remains the focus of political diatribe.

The roadblocks are caused, in my humble opinion, by the mayor’s misunderstandings regarding traffic, traffic control, and traffic studies, and by Mr. Dienhart’s contentions that promises have been made, and are being broken. Read More»

Dienhart: Change way developers do traffic studies

Most of the political conversation around town these days is centered on the traffic situation near the intersection of Ga. highways 74 and 54. The situation is bad and about to get worse.

I am sponsoring a vote to stop the connection road of the large new shopping center into the Planterra Ridge subdivision and stop another proposed stop light on the agenda for our next council meeting.

We need to focus on protecting our neighborhoods. Read More»

Socialized medicine works in many places, just not in U.K.

I wish to comment on the article by Cal Thomas in today’s Citizen. Firstly, I agree that Obamacare will likely be a disaster, also that the British NHS has drastically deteriorated. But ‘twas not always thus!

I am 83 and am familiar with the NHS since its inception. For many years it was a wonderful service, absolutely first-class: hospitals, doctors and medicines free (all the GP’s even made house calls), all paid for by everyone’s contributions up to, I believe, 60 or 65 years of age. Read More»

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