Tag: letters

The John Lennon song “Imagine” is not generally my cup of tea, thematically speaking (as a huge Beatles fan, I love the music, of...

The Fayette County School Board recently sold its administrative building and surrounding land to the city of Fayetteville for around $3 million. Those funds...

Remember that interrogation scene in “The Matrix”? Neo, not knowing what he is getting into, demands his right to a phone call. “Tell me,...

It’s been a quite a couple of weeks for leftist-disruption politics. First, several states with Virginia taking the lead have introduced legalized infanticide (https://youtu.be/OMFzZ5I30dg). Sen....

I am a student at McIntosh High School and a six-period day works for me. After reading Mrs. Marion Key’s letter to the editor...

It’s that sense of foreboding, when a fearful prognostication becomes reality. We, the nation that knows better, the nation that lives by higher ideals,...

The media’s obsession with political correctness is out of control and I’m sick of it. I just read the following headline online via the New...

Several months ago I wrote a letter concerning the need to update some parts of the facilities at Booth Middle School. The response I...

I am responding to Josh Rigsby’s letter, “Conservatives losing battle to provide values system to youth” (The Citizen, Jan. 30, 2019). I agree with...

Calling all Republican voters in Fayette County — It is absolutely imperative that Republican voters realize that the “resist movement” is working overtime to...

When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the recent law called the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), he was greeted with an ecstatic cheer of...

For the past couple of months there have been various opinions published on the state of American colleges and the rise of “snowflakes.” Each article...

Reading The Citizen article on Peachtree City Mayor Vanessa Fleisch’s annual state of the city speech got me thinking about issues that I hope...

Steve Brown’s defense of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was quite well done. Thanks to him for making the point without resorting to ad...

A swarm of Democrats are infuriated at our Board of Commissioners for endorsing a resolution supportive of a state Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA,...

I would like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank the health care team at Piedmont Fayette Hospital for the outstanding care and...

U.S. Representative Hank Johnson, I watched your speech Jan. 1, to Friendship Baptist Church and was appalled at the misinformation you put out there....

The passage of the “Protecting Religious Freedom” resolution by the Fayette County Commission reveals a misguided understanding of the role of the Commission and...

I don’t usually delve into film criticism, but watching “Mary Poppins Returns” the other day inspired me to reflect on some rather deep themes. As...

I am ending a couple of decades of intense political participation in Fayette County. It has been an honor to serve our hard-working citizens....

Now is the time we change our thinking on Alzheimer’s disease. Too often Alzheimer’s is treated as an aging issue, ignoring the public health...

Many parents are all too familiar with that horrible gut feeling when something is wrong with their child. The last time I experienced that...

Consider this a response to “Rebuttal to a clueless rebuttal” (Wed., Dec 5) as well as the letter “Hate crimes should alarm us all,...

People who follow politics, even casually, learn not to expect high moral standards from politicians. But there are some outrages that show a new...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Why is the Board of Education trying to fix McIntosh High School, changing what is already working...

What a lovely Thanksgiving memoir you served us on Wednesday. It was excellent in two ways: one, your eye condition turned out not to be...

Several weeks ago, I shared my story about “Red Mercedes Lady,” a grown woman who verbally berated me with profanity for supposedly not using...

Dear loving pet parents who lavish care on your animal friends this time of year: I would like to challenge you to send an amount...

I found Captain Benson’s letter rebutting the recent Whitewater High School graduate’s condemnation of right wing radicals quite interesting. His civics lecture was particularly...

As I reached the last part of Linda Conley’s letter to the editor and she talked of her father’s service during World War Two,...

Now that the election is over: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the newly elected government would actually work to represent the whole country instead of...

After returning last Friday from an out of town trip for work, I settled in Saturday evening to read The Citizen, only to soon...

“Johnny, why is your brother crying?” “He called me a name so I punched him in the face!” “Why did you shoot up a...

Mrs. Key’s letter about the alleged plan for McIntosh High School to change from six to seven class periods a day is informative, but...