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When will roads get fixed?
Dear editor: Good ole SPLOST funds! What are they being used for if not for what the citizens need? Hey City Councilmen, let’s repair the roads in the big traffic areas! I know you travel on them and think about adding them to the list of things to do, but maybe you just forget. I know I have thought about writing this hundreds of times over the past two years and am just now doing so. Why? I’ve just replaced two tires before their time s...
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Pit bulls unfairly targeted
Dear editor: I’m reading the paper today about the pitbull that was shot by a LaGrange police officer. I’m a pitbull owner and I’m sick of people giving these dogs a bad name. A dog is a dog. It all depends on how you raise them. I don’t care what the law says, I’m always going to have a pitbull in my family. They are the most loving animals! My babies are my world, and I have never ever had a problem out of that breed. Me and other p...
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Middle School athletes deserve recognition too
Dear editor: I would like to know why no one in LaGrange or Troup County covers Middle School Sports. There are three public middle schools in this county just like there are three public high schools. Every day there are articles about the high schools and even the private school sports. All three of the middle schools have the same sports programs as the high schools. They have football teams, basketball teams, cheerleading, cross count...
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We’re living in an era of shortages
Dear editor: If you should ask me to label the times that we live in, I would have to say that we live in an era of shortages. Fresh water, food, fuel, jobs, money, you name it. There’s not enough to go around for today’s world population. This is causing folks to be short tempered and short on patience. Termites, ticks, kudzu, cars on the parkway and things of that sort are the only kind of things that there are an abundance of. A sho...
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You usually find what you’re looking for
Dear Editor: I am very grateful for the American right to freedom of speech, and I appreciate LaGrange Daily News for printing letters representing differences of belief. I learned in a recent Sunday school class that “negative, condemning words can hurt for a lifetime.” This was a lesson on kindness and discovering the joy of helping others. Forgiveness and finding freedom from the grip of anger is the next lesson. I admit that God is s...
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Thanks for prayers, support
Dear editor: My family and I can never express in mere words the gratitude we feel for our LaGrange community. We have been humbled by all the wonderful acts of kindness, gifts, donations and prayers that have taken place since our daughter, Nancy Beth Merna’s, accident. The love and support has been overwhelming. We would like to say “thank you” to everyone from the bottom of our hearts! Our faithful friends, some whom we do not even kn...
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Big showing for ‘3D’ lecture series
Dear editor: Some 125 intrepid 3D fans braved tornado warnings to hear Dr. Kevin Shirley’s lecture on Medieval History of Ireland. His knowledge and his passion brought us a new appreciation of the gift given to the world by the Irish. As Europe fell into the funk of the Dark Ages, Ireland kept the light of civilization burning in its monastic communities. Ireland had no real urban centers so the papal strategy for Christianizing through...
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Who would buy the snake oil?
Dear Editor: The preacher who recently told his flock that I am a fool must think preachers are exempt from the Bibles they thump. See Matthew 5:22. During the same sermon, he said that the editor should just shut me up. Apparently the rev has never heard of free speech, that idea upon which our nation is founded. The foul preacherman also characterized prudence, reason and wisdom as sinful. He said, “human wisdom always leads away from ...
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School violence needs to be stopped
Dear editor: After returning to Georgia following a six-year teaching/coaching stint in Texas, I was appalled at the lack of discipline and the presence of violence in our Troup County School System – TCSS – classrooms. Having attended the TCSS schools when “spitballs” and fists were the weapons of choice, the number of guns, knives, drugs, fights and sexual assault incidents is shocking. The local police reports of weapons on campus are...
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A poem about taxes
A poem about taxes Dear editor: With our latest SPLOST IV tax added onto our backs, thought you guys might like to publish this poem by (political columnist) Charley Reese: “Tax his land, tax his bed. Tax the table at which he’s fed. Tax his tractor, tax his mule. Teach him taxes are the rule. Tax his work, tax his pay. He works for peanuts anyway! Tax his cow. Tax his goat. Tax his pants. Tax his coat. Tax his ties. Tax his ...
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Coal one of leading sources of pollution in U.S.
Dear Editor: Clean Coal? Despite the slick TV ads the evidence refutes such claims, coal-fired power plants are one of the largest sources of pollution in the United States. They emit a deadly particulate that can clog the lungs, triggering irregular heart beat, strokes, asthma and heart attacks. This particulate form fog, when breathed, leads to premature death. Along with our fouled air comes mercury in our streams. After poisoning the...
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You are not free
Dear Editor: Remnants of ecclesiastical apparitors live in the nooks and crannies of our thoughtless traditions. Just last week, I was discharged from a volunteer position for refusing to swear, “So help me god.” What could be more hypocritical than a society accepting years of military service from me in defense of its freedom and then requiring my allegiance to the superstitions of its majority as a condition of full participation in tha...
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Fire brought out best in people
Dear Editor: Sometimes, in the most tragic situations, we witness humanity at its best. Such has been the case regarding the sanctuary fire at Teaver Road Baptist Church this past Sunday. I saw the best of Troup County as Chief Jerry Heard and the brave firefighters of the Troup County Fire Department valiantly battled the blaze and were able to save the Family Life Center located directly behind the sanctuary. I saw the best of Troup Co...
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Liberals fail to learn from history
Dear Editor: For years we conservatives have been critical of liberals because of their failure to learn from history. We have been quick to admonish them for not recognizing that socialism simply does not work. There is nowhere in the world where it has been successful. In dealing with dictators and totalitarian regimes, we should have learned from history that they do not respect compromise and negotiation but see them as signs of weakne...
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Congregation should stay strong in wake of fire
Dear Editor: In the recent wake of events at Teaver Road Baptist Church, I want to say to the congregation that no matter how a building falls, the people are the church. The spirit of the Holy Father reigns evident in you, and I know you will overcome this tragedy. Now, as a Christian, my heart and prayers go out to all the members of Teaver Road. The spirit of God is alive and well, some non-believers will never understand God’s love and...
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T-SPLOST will hurt smaller counties
Much is being made of the T-SPLOST vote in 2012 and rightfully so. Region 4 - Three Rivers will most likely generate $72 million in total tax collections with 25 percent “guaranteed” to be returned immediately to the counties within the region and 75 percent of the collections being sent directly to the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to be used for projects on the “constrained” list. In order to understand what is really going on,...
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