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

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 . . .

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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