The Bush tax cut is in trouble.

Restaurant

Row draws ratings

MURPHY

Laugh Lines

I like to eat. Make

that, I love to eat. It isn't hard to please me, either, being that

I grew up in South Carolina, eating the game we killed, like squirrel

and rabbit. It wasn't rare for us to have tripe or chicken gizzards

for supper, either.

'Doc'

Holliday: The facts and fictions

By

CAROLYN CARY

County

Historian

Legendary figures

in history are often credited with more stories that are fiction than

are fact.

James

Madison and redistricting Georgia: Why the people lose

By

KATHY COX

District 105 House of Representatives

[Editor's note:

State Rep. Kathy Cox made the following remarks about redistricting

in a speech before the Georgia House last week.]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Hecht:

My Senate vote makes Fayette stronger

Together, we have

accomplished a lot. We passed a $2.8 billion dollar property tax cut

to exempt the first $50,000 of the fair market value of all Georgian's

homes over the next four years. We have passed the Georgia Mentoring

Act, expansion of the DNA Database for convicted felons, Natural Gas

Billing Relief legislation, the Mental Health Care Ombudsman Program,

Safe Schools legislation, criminal background checks for children's

daycare workers, Elder Abuse Prevention legislation, and tough DUI laws.

Tax

equity debate proceeds on false assumptions

Moribund as it is,

the tax equity issue between the cities and the county doesn't seem

to have given up the ghost altogether, as The Citizen [Aug. 8] announced

a second court hearing on the issue for Sept. 25. It is interesting

to reflect that the leaders of Peachtree City (PTC), Fayetteville and

Tyrone have hired lawyers who will be squaring off against lawyers for

Fayette County: that means we have county citizens who are paying for

both sets of lawyers at the behest of politicians who probably otherwise

squawk about frivolous lawsuits. Somebody will probably hate lawyers

because of that. Go figure.

Wellman:

We must prepare for Wal-Mart, Home Depot in PTC

I wrote to this

paper two weeks ago about the tone of the debate in Peachtree City and

my belief that it is the true cornerstone issue we face. I have been

gratified to hear from so many citizens who agree with me and have offered

their support in the face of more examples of the same smearing and

attacks. Today I wanted to address the second issue we need to consider

as the election approaches: The coming arrival of Wal-Mart and Home

Depot and the effect they will have on the small business economic landscape

of our city.

PTC

community center vote offers opportunity for youth

The Peachtree City

Council has made a tremendous positive step by allocating the $2.6 million

for purchase of the Braelinn Baptist Church for a community center.

Power

plant threatens health of senior citizens in S. Fulton

I have lived on

Peters Road in South Fulton County for the past 31 years, less than

a mile from the proposed Williams power plant. This morning I attended

a Town Hall Meeting at Christian City, which is an elderly retirement

community consisting of residential homes, assisted living complex,

convalescent center, hospice and children's homes, also located in close

proximity to the proposed plant.

few questions need answers

I have a few questions

that maybe one of your readers might answer for me:

Good

for Boylan; otherwise, singles' scene the pits here

In response to "For

whom the wedding bells toll" by Michael Boylan dated July 18:

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