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Your Views: Meals on Wheels program is vital to many seniors

Recently while watching the local government channel, a segment on Meals on Wheels aired. This is one of the greatest programs for the elderly that is out there.

March 16, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Following Jesus means more than just saying the right words

Regarding Tom Smiley's article about Christian churches sharing their buildings with Muslims, I was intrigued by his statements regarding "truth."

March 15, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Are we using prayer only for our personal convenience?

I did not think I would live to see a time when prayer was excluded from anywhere. The 9/11 tragedy found many people from all over the world feeling the need for prayer. Even after a tragedy as big as 9/11, prayer is still excluded from some places and events.

March 14, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Downtown bridge could be signature gateway into city

San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge. Manhattan has the Brooklyn Bridge. London has the London Bridge. So why shouldn't Gainesville-Hall County have the "People's Bridge?"

March 14, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Our Views: A sensible cent

There are a number of folks urging their fellow Hall Countians to vote Tuesday against extending a special purpose local option sales tax for education expenses.

March 13, 2011 | Times Editorial Board | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Education SPLOST is not a new sales tax

The time has arrived to renew the 1-cent sales tax that helps fund the much needed repairs, renovations, and, in one case, replacement of some of our Gainesville and Hall County schools. I stress "renew" because this tax is not a "new" tax but one that has been in place for the past several years. It has helped fund much-needed school building projects in both the city and the county that otherwise would have been funded by an increased property tax.

March 12, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Give our children what they need with ‘yes’ vote on SPLOST

Do we want our children to be safe in the school they attend and be able to compete in a highly technical world they will find themselves upon graduation? Or do you want them to lag behind and be assigned a secondary position in the globalized age they will live in? To all of us, children are our most precious and loving possession and no matter how difficult the struggle, or how high the cost, ...

March 12, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Men’s Progressive Club backs passage of education SPLOST

On behalf of the Men's Progressive Club of Gainesville, I would like to add our endorsement in favor of continuing the one-penny sales tax.

March 12, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Economic worries are a good reason to vote ‘yes’ on tax

As a graduate of Gainesville City Schools and now a mother with children following my own footsteps in our local schools, I wanted to express my support for continuation of the one-penny education sales tax.

March 12, 2011 | Letter to the editor | Opinion: editorials, letters to the editor

Your Views: Education SPLOST is fair way to fund our schools properly

If not today, then when? The children of our community should always be the "today" and not the "then when." What we put into our educational system today is guaranteed to be representative of its future. If approved, education SPLOST will undoubtedly continue to provide our children with the necessary tools to become devout members of society.