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Opinion: Personal responsibility lacking in closure of Margaritaville’s beach
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A fence is placed along the beach Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at the Lanier Islands beach to keep people out of the water. Margaritaville at Lanier Islands will no longer allow people to swim in beach waters out of safety concerns. - photo by Scott Rogers
Several months ago I read in The Times (and elsewhere) that the Margaritaville attraction at Lake Lanier would no longer allow visitors to enter the lake. There was a vast hue and outcry: “Why have a beach attraction with no access to the water?”
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Opinion: Sacrifices must be made by all to keep Democracy
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President Donald Trump listens during an event Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. - photo by Associated Press
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are, in a helter-skelter fashion, converting American democracy into an autocracy with Trump as the autocrat.
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