The opinion reprinted below first appeared in The Citizen Christmas week, 1999.
In the year of our Lord 19 hundred and 99...
‘Why does this matter? Because it could be you, it could be me’
The question before us is this: Can Fayette County legally hold a special election confined to District 5?
The headline could read like this: “Residents’ uprising swamps water park plan.”
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.
Some preliminary thoughts in the aftermath of the accidental shooting New Year’s Day in Peachtree City that received global news coverage.
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!”
The opinion reprinted below first appeared in The Citizen Christmas week, 1999.
In the year of our Lord 19 hundred and 99...
A Thanksgiving story
By Cal Beverly
I have a Thanksgiving story. It happened two years ago.
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 final counts.
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.
I come today to praise two office holders that I have strongly criticized in the past.
OPINION — I’m disappointed in David Studdard. He’s running a truth-challenged runoff race against Marty Harbin for the Republican nomination to the Georgia Senate, District 16 (Fayette, Spalding, Pike and Lamar counties).
The Bible teaches that God, our maker, prefers a humble person over a haughty person. The process of our growing older advances His goal. There are fewer haughty old folks than there are haughty young ones. Age generally introduces one to one’s advancing limitations.
Once upon a time in Atlanta, a newspaper columnist cried in print, “Lock up your silver and your women and children — the Georgia legislature is in town.”
