Thanks to legislators for supporting teachers
Kudos to Representatives Randy Nix, Brooks Coleman, Mike Dudgeon and Sen. Lindsey Tippens for promoting Senate Bill 364. They are the epitome of what legislators should be. They are among the best. My faith in lawmakers has been restored. It has been a long, long time coming but changes have finally come. As a retired APS teacher and library media specialist, I am fully aware of the teachers’ plight. Almost no one supports them. To God be the glory!
HELEN S. CHATMAN, ATLANTA
A right to know criminal histories
Leonard Pitts should stick to writing excuse columns. He apparently thinks committing crimes is OK if you don’t get caught, or you spend some time in jail (“You can’t be punished enough in U.S. nowadays,” Opinion, March 20)
“Questions about criminal records should not be allowed on job applications.” As an employer, before I turn over my money, my business, my reputation, and the futures of my other employees, I have every right to know if I am hiring a crook, a thief, or an ex-con. Here is a suggestion, Leonard: Instead of making excuses later on, try not breaking the law in the first place. Your column would serve your constituents far better by making that point.
JIM COURSEY, MARIETTA
Whose faith does bill really support?
I am always confused by those who support the anti-LGBT bill when they call themselves “people of faith.”
What faith is that? I consider myself deeply faithful to my Lord and savior. God so loved the world that He sent his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to Earth to teach us how to live. His works were all about love and acceptance. They are chronicled in the Bible in the New Testament.
There, you will find John 13:34-35, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I love you, you are also to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” And, in Romans 14:3 you’ll find “The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does for God has accepted them.” Veto the bill.
MIKE CANFIELD, ATLANTA
Scalia deserved more respect than Cuba
President Barack Obama visited Cuba last week, a country which with its Russian ally in the 1960’s threatened our country with missiles and brought us to the brink of World War III. Only the determination and resolve of President John F. Kennedy saved us from a global holocaust. President Obama, who lacks the will of Kennedy, is the first president in almost a half century to visit this human rights-violating, communist country. Yet this same president refused to attend the funeral services of Supreme Court Justice Scalia here in America, a man who loved this country and spent his life trying to preserve the rights of the people of this country in accordance with the Constitution. He and the president may not have seen things in the same light, but I think he deserved more respect than Cuba.
BILL STAVRO, SUWANEE
New nuclear plants a bad idea
Georgia Power is conducting preliminary feasibility studies of building additional nuclear plants in Columbus. Bad idea.
The original promise of the nuclear industry was safe, reliable energy at low cost. Didn’t happen. Instead, every nuclear facility in the U.S. is now a nuclear waste disposal site, and construction costs keep escalating. Plant Vogtle 1 and 2 costs soared from $285/kilowatt to $3,800/kilowatt. Vogtle 3 and 4 escalated from $6,450 to $8,000 (and rising). Despite consistent mistakes, Georgia Power is treated with reverence by their regulators. Conversely, public critics, who have been much more accurate, are treated with hostility. It would be of great public benefit for Georgia’s press to fully investigate all aspects of Georgia’s nuclear programs and regulatory oversight.
STEVEN PRENOVITZ, NORCROSS
