Dear editor, Just weeks into the new year, a growing number of Medicare beneficiaries — especially those in LaFayette, Georgia — are nearing their yearly financial limit (also known as therapy cap...
Letter: Pettigrew family appreciates help Dear editor, The family of Lonna Elizabeth “Bibble” Pettigrew would like to express their appreciation of the paramedics, EMTs and all who responded to the call on Thursday, Jan. 14. We would like...
Federal government, drivers are problem on Loughridge Lane Dear editor, Regarding the article on the Noble community and Loughridge Lane: I too travel this road several times a day. I share Mr. Boyle’s frustration. But my frustration is with the other dri...
Family of teen shot in hunting accident gives thanks Dear editor, This is a letter of thanks to everyone. We want to thank God first, doctors, nurses, all the staff at Erlanger Hospital who are now taking care of Joseph Lee Coffman, and to all the p...
No YMCA is big loss for Catoosa County Dear editor, The North Georgia YMCA has announced that it will close its doors permanently in March. This will be an unfortunate loss for the northwest Georgia community. No longer will be avail...
LaFayette government still leaves questions unanswered Dear editor, I have some issues I would like to address concerning the matter of the LaFayette Cemetery and the numerous occasions in which I’ve attempted to reach members of the LaFayette City Co...
Catoosa should have gotten YMCA Dear editor, It was a sad day when residents of Catoosa County were denied the opportunity to have their own YMCA branch. The reason, I’m sure, went beyond the one stated of wanting only tax-pay...
City of LaFayette showed unbelievable disrespect Dear editor, How could the city of LaFayette show such disrespect? The “miscommunication” that caused the removal of everything cannot be corrected. There’s no excuse for what happened at th...
Cottage director thankful for donations Dear editor, On behalf of The Cottage, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Chuck Gass. Mr. Gass selected The Cottage as one of the recipients of portions of the proceeds from the Charles...
Dear editor, I recently read with great interest about the latest efforts of Rodney Waters, the owner of Rock Fitness, to utilize the Catoosa County government yet again to protect his monopoly on...
Dear editor, Most of the time my daily life is pretty much the same — home, work, church, the daily in’s and out’s of living. Then some days stand out, and we experience something that shows us ho...
Dear editor, There is a memorial to war veterans located just off Battlefield Parkway between Fort Oglethorpe and Ringgold in the Catoosa County government complex. It is a disgrace to all the ve...
Dear editor, As a medical doctor and public health professional, I believe the risk of not receiving the H1N1 influenza (aka swine flu) vaccine vastly outweighs the almost nonexistent risk of re-c...
Dear editor, There is a memorial to war veterans located just off Battlefield Parkway between Fort Oglethorpe and Ringgold in the Catoosa County government complex. It is a disgrace to all the ve...
Dear editor, We have heard suggestions, and we have seen some cities actually tax food they decided was unhealthy. Recently on NPR it was, “let’s tax soft drinks.” I have a suggestion. Since it lo...
Though I am an admirer of the macabre talents of Edgar Allan Poe, I did not make the trek to Baltimore earlier this month to attend his reburial. Coming 160 years after his actual death and a hasty...
We, the congregation of Community Baptist Church on Lee Mason Road in LaFayette, are strongly against having liquor by the drink served in our restaurants and our city. We urge everyone in our area...
PRESIDENT OBAMA wants to double U.S. exports between now and 2015, and it's a worthy goal. It won't be easy: Exports fell from $1.8 trillion in 2008 to $1.5 trillion in 2009, due to the global recession. But, as the president suggested in a speech Thursday, a big boost in sales of U.S. goods and services abroad would support 2 million American jobs. And some of his ideas could help that happen: an additional $2 billion in Export-Import Bank credit; streamlining the review process for sensitive technology exports; high-level support from the President's Export Council.
IF ALL GOES according to plan, Democrats in Congress will attempt to pass two major, long-sought reforms at once in the coming weeks -- of health care and student loans -- using the controversial reconciliation maneuver in the Senate. Some have characterized the move to add education to the health bill as a sneaky attempt to ram through one more "government takeover." That's unfair.
LAST SUMMER it was reported that Montgomery County public safety officers -- more than 200 police officers, sheriff's deputies and others -- had taken taxpayer-funded courses that, upon scrutiny, looked very fishy. These courses, ostensibly offering firearms training, were in fact scams that traded hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers' money for cut-rate weapons for the officers to use recreationally or resell as they saw fit.