Letters to the Editor
A good deed helps family in need
To the editor:
My husband and I lost our work car in a fire on Sept. 7. We were not sure how we were going to continue to work. We have been delivering The Daily Citizen newspaper for five years and did not want to quit our job. We have come to know so many of our customers over the years and we knew that each one of them depended on us every morning. We had to drive our Jeep that needs a transmission and was not sure how long it would hold up. But every night we would pray that we would make it through.
Amswering our prayers our customers and some people we don't even know pulled together and bought us a car. They were able to buy us a 1995 Chevy Lumina. What a blessing that was. We want everyone to know we could never tell them enough how grateful we are. It was such a blessing to know we could continue working and provide for our children. It just amaze's us how much people do care and pulls together to help one another.
We send out our deepest thanks to everyone who gave and who continued to pray for our family.
Stephanie and Richard McAtee
Dalton
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Letter: A road solution
I am not a rocket scientist nor an engineer, yet I have come up with a very simple solution for a bypass for the Highway 225 and the Alternate Highway 52 congestion. And I wasn’t paid $750,000 to do it, nor have I been influenced by any landowners along the way.
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Letter: Say no to health care taxes
President Obama has put online his own proposal for health care. This time he cannot point his finger at the House, Senate, Republications or even Democrats when it fails. He will have to face the music for his legacy alone.
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Letter: Become a marrow donor
A dear friend of mine, Mindy Blackwell, lost her battle with leukemia this past October. Mindy needed a bone marrow transplant and, out of millions on the registry, there was not a match for her. She lived six days short of a year from her diagnosis. Mindy is the inspiration for Studio One Hair Designs hosting a Bone Marrow Donor Drive. It is our goal to help grow “Be The Match Registry,” the national bone marrow donor registry, so that one day anyone in need of a transplant will have a matching donor.
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Can someone help get the lights on
Christmas morning, 2009, wake up, Merry Christmas. Oh, no! There is no electricity all day long, no power. It’s nothing new. I got up this morning, Feb. 19, 2010, to go to work and yup, once again, no power.
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Tea Party members speak with the speaker
The North Georgia Tea Parties were represented this week in Atlanta in the office of Speaker of the House David Ralston. The purpose of the meeting was to present the speaker with specific concerns throughout the state as have been expressed by citizens to the Tea Parties.
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Deal editorial was unfair
Your March 2 editorial condemning Nathan Deal for resigning from the United States House of Representatives was grossly unfair.
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Find other ways to balance budget
I read with great concern the article in Friday’s Daily Citizen outlining the proposed cuts at Dalton State College. Today, I received an e-mail link to a YouTube broadcast from the president of my alma mater, Georgia Southern University, outlining their proposed cuts.
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College Students fight proposed budget cuts
In response to a request from the state legislature, the University System of Georgia, USG, is preparing a summary of $300 million in budget reductions for the next academic year. This $300 million reduction is in addition to the $264 million that has already been cut in the governor’s proposed budget.
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Don’t cut Archway, Dalton State funding
I am writing as the chair of the executive committee of the Dalton-Whitfield County Archway Partnership. You may not be aware of Archway, but it is a program from which local communities gain the wealth of faculty and student expertise of the University System of Georgia and those faculty and students gain practical experience outside of the classroom. The real world meets the classroom and local communities benefit. We are the most recent of eight communities in the state who have begun the process of community improvement with this outstanding asset of the University System of Georgia.
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Ruling doesn’t make sense
The recent ruling by Superior Court Judge Jack Partain was a travesty of justice which we have come to expect by those in power.
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