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- Thursday, May 23, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Section - Viewpoint
YES: Social Security's glowing promises are unsustainable
The writer is addressing the question, Is Social Security a Ponzi scheme?
Commentary: We need a health care system that puts patients in charge
For almost two years, Americans have lived in limbo, not knowing if the 2,770-page health reform law would forever change how we conduct the business of health care.
An empty bed
It is difficult to prove a negative or something that didn't happen. But like front-line health care providers don't need a government study to convince them that smoking causes lung cancer, Marines patrolling the fields in Sangin Afghanistan don't need convincing that shaving cream has saved lives and limbs by marking the safe path through IED-infested ground.
Commentary: Economic security is national security
Despite political wrangling and election-year pressures to please their respective constituencies, Democrats and Republicans do agree on at least two fundamental issues.
King: Time to speak up
The United States was established as a representative democracy: The people elect the government. Today, we increasingly frame ourselves as a participatory democracy: Citizens participate in government decisions.
Occupying a better future
Right now the world is convinced that the American market system has failed. To feed our consumption, we have experienced five decades of budget deficits, four of trade deficits, three of easy access to credit cards and one of artificially low-interest loans. Sure we bought lots of clothes, built lots of big houses and planted strip malls all over the nation, but all with borrowed money.
No to transportation SPLOST: A new tax in a bad economy is an unwise decision
Next July 31, voters in Georgia will go to the polls to vote yes or no to the largest single tax increase in Georgia history.
Yes to transportation SPLOST: Investing in roads, bridges key to future growth
I've been in real estate here in Gainesville all my life, so I know what a smart investment a home can be. I see similar benefits in the roads and bridges that keep us connected. And if we keep them modern and in good repair, we will be reaping benefits far into the future.
Guest commentary: Keeping the water running
Georgia received some welcome news in the recent unanimous refusal by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to hold a new hearing on the approved uses of Lake Lanier. Not surprisingly, the state of Alabama has said they will appeal to the United States Supreme Court. As a result, this issue - only one of many in the ongoing water wars between Georgia, Alabama and Florida - will remain unsettled for at least the near future.
Commentary: As students learn about religion, they become more tolerant
Religion has never been a hot-button topic at my school: You believe what you believe, and it doesn't really affect everyone else. The few kids at North Hall High who aren't Christian don't look any different than the rest of the populous or isolate themselves.
Young Leaders Society: The new generation
In the fog of a Tuesday between seasons, there are all the makings of a fall semester field trip. In a bus, nearly full, passengers are facing backward in their seats, eager to talk to those immediately behind them. Someone counts heads and makes an announcement. Some lean across the aisle to chat. The buzz is youthful, but this is no schoolyard babble. The bus isn't yellow, it's chartered, and its passengers are professionals, ...
Viewpoint: Scientists say hit movie 'Contagion' could happen
Yes, it could happen. But it's a stretch. "Contagion," a Hollywood thriller that opened last weekend, rocketed to No. 1 at the box office through its gripping tale of a fictional global epidemic driven by a new kind of virus. Audiences have gasped in horror at what happens to Gwyneth Paltrow. Before it was out, the movie made real-life disease investigators anxious, too, though for a different reason: They had worried the filmmakers would take ...
Commentary: America can win war on terror, just as it has defeated other evils
As we approach Sept. 11, 2011, I have listened and read to the reports of "specific and credible" intelligence suggesting an attempted commemorative terrorist strike by al-Qaida with a sense of sadness, realizing that my children will come of age in a very different world from the one in which I grew up. A decade has now passed since that quiet fall day that ushered in an era of security checkpoints, random anti-terrorism measures, ...
Health care: If given a chance, law will jump-start economy
The newest line of Republican attack on the president is to say that the new health care law is hurting job growth because it creates "uncertainty" for businesses. Nonpartisan research shows this isn't true, and we should have a responsible debate about creating jobs and dealing with our deficit.
Health care: Repealing law will create jobs, grow economy
The best thing that Congress can do to unleash jobs creation is to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Articles by Section - Viewpoint
Commentary: Assessing life's urgency
The most important fact of life is death. Yet, we spend our whole lives busily running away from that fact to create an ever-more complex world of endless trivial tasks and diversions. But the ultimate reality is that our time here is so limited and ever closer to the end.
Commentary: Proposed trade helps Big Pharma, other corporate sectors, not workers
WASHINGTON - The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a very special trade agreement. It is so special that our government officials who are negotiating it want to keep it completely secret from us.
Commentary: To protect American jobs, we need more global trade, not less
WASHINGTON - Those who think we can protect U.S. jobs by turning inward have got it exactly backward.
Commentary: Are we sending the wrong message on assimilation?
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, many are asking how someone who came to America at the age of 9, attended some of our best schools, captained the wrestling team, went to the prom and became a citizen could have inflicted such a devastating attack on our society.
Commentary: Schools scandal in Atlanta reveals the dark side of offering incentives
Earlier this month, 35 public school teachers and administrators indicted for allegedly cheating to raise test scores in an Atlanta school district began turning themselves in to authorities. They may be the tip of the iceberg; a state investigation implicates 178 educators in the scandal.
Commentary: Feds need it in order to rehire public employees
America's economy is poised to roar ahead if only Washington would stop holding it back.
Commentary: Government shouldn’t spend beyond its means
With Tax Day upon us, American families and employers are keenly aware of the deep cut the government is taking out of their household incomes and hard-earned profits - especially during the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.
Commentary: Follow FDR’s sage advice: Tax those most able to pay
America's economy is in the midst of a Great Stagnation that almost rivals the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the nation is fighting a costly and prolonged worldwide war against relentless Islamic terrorism.
Commentary: State, local collaboration helps spur today’s economic growth
In January, the Georgia Economic Developers Association hosted more than 50 state legislators at a luncheon to celebrate economic development accomplishments over the past 12 months. We also launched a year of celebration complete with a proclamation from Gov. Nathan Deal, as 2013 marks GEDA's 50th Anniversary.
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