Budget-writing is

one of those sausage-making types of exercises.

What's

the real price of cheap goods?

One

Citizen's Perspective

The announcement

that Thomaston Mills will close its doors after 102 years in the textile

manufacturing business should register more than a blip on our economic

radar screens.

Bush

booed in Sweden!

MURPHY

Laugh Lines

Jeesh. I never get

into writing much on politics, but sometimes I just get dragged in,

like some dad of a middle school girl, being tugged every six months

to an 'Nsync concert.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Praise

for one, a plea for another

I would like to

leave three thoughts with you. Hopefully, you will find it in your hearts

to act upon the latter two.

Now

is the time to put EMS money in budget

In response to the

article "Tie Vote Dooms added EMS slots" Citizen - June 13:

For

discipline and education, homeschooling not a bad idea

This is why I choose

to homeschool my children. I have a college degree, and a lot of money

owed in student loans. But, instead of utilizing my degree for the benefit

of whomever I may serve, I choose to serve my children by homeschooling

them (and only because I am lucky enough to have a husband that can

make ends meet in our household). To give you a better idea of "making

ends meet," my husband does not make over $40,000 a year, we have

our own home, we don't starve, and we have everything we want.

Training

story was right on

I want to extend

to you my sincere appreciation for your coverage of the high Risk Warrant

Service Training held on May 17 and 18, 2001.

We

need straight answers on choice in education

I've known Ms. Amy

Riley since Fayette's 'Great Chicago Math Controversy.'

Bands

booted from YMCA

In January 2000

the director of the YMCA, Pam Young, attended a follow-up forum sponsored

County." She mentioned programs and efforts to help youth in Fayette

County as some of the positive activities going on in our area.

The

truth about government spending and deficits

The cat is finally

out of the bag on those horrid "Reagan deficits" that we have

heard about through Democrat mythology since the 1980s. In an opinion

piece published May 27 in the New York Times, chief Clinton-Gore administration

propagandists and dirty tricks experts James Carville and Paul Bagala

disclosed that through their control of the Congress, the Democrats

simply boosted spending at every turn, resulting in sky-high deficits

which were then blamed on Reagan.

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