Letters to the Editor
Helping unemployed readers a good deed
To the publisher:
Good deeds go a long way. I am tremendously humbled by your good deeds, on behalf of The Daily Citizen, to offer newspaper subscriptions at the more than reasonable three-month rate of $1 to metro Dalton citizens drawing unemployment insurance.
Thank you for your foresight in understanding the value of news and information, especially in the lives of motivated job seekers. Thank you for your compassion to assist and support job seekers as they negotiate an often frustrating recession.
Godspeed in your efforts to be a resource to the people of Murray and Whitfield counties. May your efforts continue to be blessings to those in need. May The Daily Citizen continue to be a beacon of information, news and hope.
Michael L. Thurmond
Georgia Labor Commissioner
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Letter: Thank you Regency Park
As I begin to write this letter, I am still with a heavy heart. You see, on Saturday, Feb. 27, I lost an important part of my life. My mother and my friend, Mrs. DeeEtte Page Scott, departed this life to be with our heavenly father.
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Letter: Students are fighting to protect higher education
The nearly $600 million in budget cuts proposed for the University System of Georgia struck a chord with me when I learned how the budget cuts would affect my region.
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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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