Government Party wins, taxpayers lose
I come today to praise two office holders that I have strongly criticized in the past. After Thursday night’s 3-to-2 Peachtree City Council vote to impose a new pay system — with some big raises — for...
View ArticleOn the eve of the vote count . . .
Here we are again: One nation, divided, with varying degrees of liberty and justice. And we get to vote on what — and who — comes next.A check with the Elections Board office reveals that more than...
View ArticleBefore the count, what pundits say
This is written before the polls close, so I’m talking to a mass of folks who know a whole lot more than I know right now.Just for fun, here are some quotes from pundits in the same boat, before the...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving story
A Thanksgiving storyBy Cal BeverlyI have a Thanksgiving story. It happened two years ago.A few days after receiving a new lens in my eye to correct a clouding condition called cataracts, I awoke on a...
View Article15 years later, another Christmas
The opinion reprinted below first appeared in The Citizen Christmas week, 1999.In the year of our Lord 19 hundred and 99...Many cultural commentators argue that the United States has entered the...
View ArticleThere’s good news tonight!
On this last day of 2014, I’m reminded of the opening line of Mutual Network broadcaster Gabriel Heatter in his nightly radio newscasts from the 1940s and early ’50s: “There’s good news tonight!”A few...
View ArticleThe shot reported around the world
Some preliminary thoughts in the aftermath of the accidental shooting New Year’s Day in Peachtree City that received global news coverage.First, the good news. Margaret McCollum, 58, of 103 Autumn...
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For and against Great Wolf
So, here we are, in the spring of the 56th year of Peachtree City’s existence as a “new town,” a “planned community,” and Great Wolf is at our door.One side — and probably a majority of the tax-driven...
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The Trail of the Wolf
The headline could read like this: “Residents’ uprising swamps water park plan.” In a showdown at City Hall last Thursday, the City Council vote was 5-to-0 against locating a Great Wolf Lodges indoor...
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Honor the ‘process’ in ‘due process’
The question before us is this: Can Fayette County legally hold a special election confined to District 5?Widower Bernie Coston and the Fayette County NAACP want the successor to the late District 5...
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‘The general is no robber’
‘Why does this matter? Because it could be you, it could be me’The headline is the gist of a letter that also complains about our front page coverage of the Aug. 15 arrest of a retired four-star Army...
View Article16 years later, another Christmas
The opinion reprinted below first appeared in The Citizen Christmas week, 1999. In the year of our Lord 19 hundred and 99... Many cultural commentators argue that the United States has entered the...
View ArticleWho’s in your wallet?
I have said from time to time that government is what liberals have instead of God. So in this watershed year, that begs the question: Is Donald Trump now all that conservatives have? Truly, God help...
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The truth about the candidates
That provocative headline is in reality a plaintive cry from a voter swamped with campaign words from candidates who spend most of their energies and money emphasizing only those stories about...
View Article‘The dark side’ and ‘specialness’
Last time I wrote about questions I wish political candidates would truthfully answer. Likely not gonna happen. Truth is, the next best thing we voters will ever get from the winners will be the actual...
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I’ll vote for Crane and for Hayes
Two Republican runoff elections next week will determine the next congressman for most of Fayette County and the next district attorney for Fayette and three smaller counties south of us. In the...
View ArticleLet’s talk about reading
I’m a reader. You’re here, so you are too. So what do you read? Fiction, news, techie stuff, entertainment, sports? I once was a voracious reader of fiction. Not so much anymore. My morning ritual is...
View ArticleTrump’s 6 transformative ideas
The best analysis I’ve seen anywhere about Donald Trump, Hillary and her Democrats and the hapless Republican Party comes — wait for it — from a Georgetown University professor writing in Politico...
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