Hillary’s infamous server will yield no secrets
Any competent IT person can “sanitize” a server so no incriminating data remain. Hillary Clinton has had plenty of time to have this done. No doubt her server will appear pure as the driven snow, and she will continue her snow job on the electorate.
WALTER H. INGE, ATLANTA
I’m a math prof at Georgia Regents University. Let’s do the math on two of your articles in Aug. 9’s newspaper. For the four research universities, how many students’ tuition increases does it take just to pay for their university president’s salary increase? At Georgia State, tuition increased by $223 and President Becker’s salary increased by $500,000. The tuition increases of 2,242 students paid for that raise. Similarly, at Georgia Tech, 790 student tuition increases went to President Peterson’s $320,000 raise. At UGA, 439 students paid President Morehead’s $170,000 raise; and at GRU 484 students paid President Keel’s $107,000 raise. President Keel is new; his raise is in comparison to his predecessor’s salary. For the record, I teach 110 students, and fewer than five student tuition increases at GRU paid my salary increase this year, the first in four years.
ROBERT M. SCOTT, PH.D, PRESIDENT, GEORGIA CONFERENCE, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
Bookman wrong on casinos
Jay Bookman’s commentary (“Casino gambling a bad bet for Atlanta, Georgia,” Opinion, Aug. 5) perpetuates outdated stereotypes about gaming, a highly diverse industry that provides a path to the middle class for workers of all experiences. Careers include 200 different job classifications, including high-tech, engineering, software development and law enforcement.
Casinos boost small businesses. One owner of a restaurant next to a casino said, “it has exponentially increased our business and our traffic flow. We would just be another ordinary hole-in-the-wall, instead we have a booming small bar.”
Further, typical casino visitors defy stereotypes. Most are between the ages of 21 and 59, and a plurality earns $60,000 to $99,000 a year. They’re also well-educated, churchgoing voters who contribute to their communities.
Georgians should have the facts about casinos as they determine if gaming is right for them.
GEOFF FREEMAN, CEO, AMERICAN GAMING ASSOCIATION
Private solution for shelter?
There undoubtedly is a problem with the Peachtree-Pine area, but the problem is not unique; the problem is the hodgepodge of government mismanagement. Whether the tuberculosis allegations are true or not, Mayor Kasim Reed’s reflexive instinct to using eminent domain to steal property from a private organization is abominable. The real problem Atlanta residents are concerned about is the utter filth of the immediate area and the homeless surrounding Peachtree-Pine — not the inner workings of the shelter.
The problem is one of asset prices, and a lack of incentive to develop. Why not sell or cede the sidewalks — and any other government land—to businesses and developers, who can prevent and forcibly eject any of these undesirables from land which will then be theirs? Why not eliminate property taxes, occupational licensing, business licensing, zoning, minimum wage, and the rest of the maze of regulations and disincentives that are preventing development of the area?
As asset prices are bid up, and owners are stringently keeping the homeless from their property, they will find it in their interest to buy the Peachtree-Pine building, at which point a shelter can be built somewhere else with less commercial value, and the homeless will congregate somewhere that poses less of a danger to the residents of Midtown Atlanta.
TYLER KUBIK, M.A. HISTORY STUDENT, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY.
