There's an organization

that sends me e-mails every day or two addressing its concerns over

immigration.

The

meaning of life, part one

MURPHY

Laugh Lines

Lots of people complain

these days that there's nothing out there that makes living worthwhile.

I say movies make the world go round. "It's a Wonderful Life"

and my "Sixth Sense" tells me that being a "Die-Hard"

movie fan doesn't make me a "Psycho." I don't mean to go "Overboard"

with this movie stuff, but such a "Phenomenon" is not "Alien"

to my existence. I will "Face Off" all "Goodfellas"

or an "American Beauty" on any "Dog Day Afternoon"

to tell them the importance of movies.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Hecht's

redistricting vote forfeits voter trust

Greg Hecht is either

out of touch with reality or is an outright lying political opportunist

that cares only for his own skin.

Hecht

propaganda can't hide what Demos did to Fayette

I think Sen. Greg

Hecht must be delusional to think that we will buy his propaganda about

Fayette County being stronger because he marched in lockstep with his

other Democratic comrades.

Band

noise level overwhelmed amphitheater-supplied earplugs

Marshall Tucker

Band, you are an insult to our sensibilities!

Doc

Holliday: Correcting Cary

Editor, I know just

how you feel. It's embarrassing to have someone point out your mistakes

in public, as Ms. Carolyn Cary did in her Aug. 22 article about the

life of the legendary Doc Holliday. She says you added several sentences

to another story of hers, erroneously identifying the famous dentist

as a resident of Fayetteville. "Sorry, Mr. Editor," she said,

"but I'm afraid it isn't so."

Former

PTC Clerk Nancy Faulkner announces intent to run for Council

When people find

out that I am running for City Council, they ask me two questions: Are

you crazy? and, Who are you running against?

Time

for Wellman to take stand on something

Is it possible to

run as a mayoral candidate in Peachtree City without ever taking a stand

on one issue? Fred Wellman is running that kind of a campaign.

Brown

volunteers for post, cautiously

[Editor's note:

Peachtree City mayoral candidate Steve Brown received an invitation

from Mayor Bob Lenox to serve on a voluntary committee. This is Brown's

reply.]

PTC

voters should OK Braelinn Arts Center bond

Finally! In a move

long requested by the many arts organizations in Peachtree City, the

city has put on the bond issue the purchase of the Braelinn Baptist

Church campus for badly needed space for classes, practices, rehearsals

and other needs.

Georgia

GOP wants its turn at public hog trough

In 1973 I supported,

worked, and voted for Maynard Jackson to be mayor of Atlanta. Once elected,

Maynard quickly instituted preferential hiring and promotional practices

for unqualified blacks, created "minority" set-aside programs

that discriminated against every racial group except blacks, grossly

violated Atlanta Civil Service procedures and changed a typically corrupt

(but efficient) medium-sized city government into a profoundly corrupt

(and inefficient) "Li'l' Chicago" that would have been at

home in Southside Chicago during the height of Prohibition.

South

Fulton power plant site violates idea of environmental justice

The environmental

justice movement is generally acknowledged to have emerged in the early

1980s in response to large demonstrations opposing the siting of a PCB-landfill

in a predominantly black community in Warren County, N.C.

Williams

power plant not welcome in South Fulton

I think that we

all realize that we need to prepare for our future electrical needs.

I believe that this plant is a good idea. But this company, Williams,

is obviously seeing only the money they will make as criteria for the

site selection.

Why

is our D.A. on Democrat crusade to ban video poker?

Why is our [District

Attorney William McBroom] off to Atlanta in his taxpayer financed car

to promote the governor's attack on video poker? Is it because Mr. McBroom

was appointed in 1995 by Democrat Zell Miller? Is it because he does

not have enough murders, rapes, assaults, home invasions and other violent

crimes to worry about?

Please,

improve MHS restrooms

As the parent of

a McIntosh High School student, I was appalled to learn recently of

the deplorable back-to-school conditions existing within MHS's female

restroom facilities.

Overzealous

endangered species act now puts human lives at risk

The federal Endangered

Species Act (ESA), which has caused significant economic pain to private

landowners, ranchers, and farmers, may have recently claimed the lives

of four gallant firefighters in Washington State.

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