Let's explore a

little further this idea of the government as cradle-to-grave care giver.

Destroying

people to save people . . .?

One

Citizen's Perspective

It probably was

a surprise to few last week when scientists at the Jones Institute for

Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., spoke publicly about being the

first group in the world to create embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting

stem cells for use in medical research.

Cats

vs. dogs: 2nd oldest war

MURPHY

Laugh Lines

The battle over

which animal is better, the cat or the dog, is as old as time, or at

least as old as jokes about how George W. Bush is so dumb. Some people

are cat people, some people are dog people. Rarely is anyone, other

than a naive child, both.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Power

plant story got facts, figures wrong

I want to correct

a series of errors from your previous story on the Fulton Energy Center.

First, your story said that our facility would be "the largest

power plant in the country."

People

depending on paper to cover power plant story

Subject: Williams

Energy story.

Anti-power

plant rhetoric is getting shrill; how about facts?

All that I am hearing

is how bad this power plant is going to be and the rhetoric is getting

shriller. The more I hear, the more I think things may be getting carried

away.

F'ville

Historic District: A lose-lose proposition for landowners, taxpayers

Certainly the Mayor

and the Fayetteville City Council are men of honor, character and integrity

and intend nothing but the best for the citizens of Fayetteville. However,

even those with the best intentions sometimes overlook things. In this

case, it's the financial effects on the citizens of Fayetteville that

have been overlooked.

Living

next to a power plant, you will get the tailpipe

We are residents

of western Coweta County, severely and negatively impacted by the construction

and operation of the recently completed Tenaska and Dynegy natural-gas-fired

merchant power generation plants, operating in Heard County, virtually

on the Coweta County line.

Aleshire

vs. Brown: Ease up

A couple of Saturdays

ago a group of like-minded citizens spent a hot day helping to build

a children's playground behind City Hall. Two of the volunteers were

Steve Brown and Bill Aleshire.

Wynnmeade,

tired of 'stepchild' status, gears up to oppose 107-home addition

Perhaps you missed

the very small notice in the local paper concerning yet another planned

subdivision on the west side of Peachtree City. If some in the city

and the developers have their way, it will be built at the north end

of Wynnmeade subdivision.

PTC

traffic study based on flawed assumptions

There were a few

of us that noticed some flaws in the traffic data gathered in March

2001 by the city's traffic consultant, URS Corp. Many of the figures

failed to add up. I began asking what methodology was used to collect

the data and the city staff did not know.

Braelinn

Baptist will make a good community center

I was very heartened

to read in John Munford's article, "Auditorium plans to go before

voters," which appeared in the Citizen Review that Peachtree City

is seriously considering purchasing the Braelinn Baptist Church for

a multiuse community center.

New

commissioner Pfeifer says thanks to supporters

I owe my thanks

to many people after the election of last Tuesday. First, I'll repeat

what I said Tuesday night: I thank the Lord, the voters, my family and

all those who helped the campaign.

EMS

response time means lives saved

Let's take an objective

look at EMS services and response time. When I started work in that

field we had nothing but advanced first-aid cards. Our usefulness was,

at best, marginal.

Selfish

reasons can't justify abortion

I can't help but

feel sorry for people like Suzanne Sports [Letters, The Citizen, July

11] who have no regard for human life and are willing to kill their

babies for purely selfish reasons.

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