BROADCASTING
Whither music with
new NPR station?
While I am thrilled and delighted WABE, Atlanta’s only NPR station, will finally get some much-needed competition (“Atlanta gets 2nd NPR station,” Living, May 8), it’s still troubling the announcement of this alliance was kept secret from staff members of WRAS, the Georgia State University student-run alternative music station. WRAS offered new music not available anywhere else in the Atlanta market, so I am wondering, who will take up that mantle? It seems to me that GSU has gotten more into the business and land expansion program while forgetting their main resource — their students. GSU should be more about expanding minds than the expansion of assets.
ALLEN S. FACEMIRE, NORCROSS
SECOND AMENDMENT
Sure, let’s all take
the Bible literally
I had one more thought in reply to Thomas Rush’s Opinion piece extolling the virtues of “carrying” weapons into houses of worship (“Guns in church really are OK,” Opinion, May 2). In keeping with his no-doubt literal reading of the Scriptures, I suggest he encourage his parishioners to follow exactly the text quoted and bring all the swords they can carry to their next worship service.
MARK TUCKER, NORCROSS
MINIMUM WAGE
Non-partisan data
is needed on wages
President Obama was quoted in an email petition request from Lindsay Siler of the PAC Organizing for Action that “28 million Americans would benefit from raising the minimum wage — and 70 percent of Americans agree that now’s the time to do it.” I would like to know if these statistics are even remotely true, and if is there a credible source they could be attributed to from outside the Democratic election team.
MAC SOMMER, WOODSTOCK
ISLAM
Backers of peace
must take a stand
The radical Muslim group that has kidnapped and threatened to sell the schoolgirls is another example of the violent, isolationist, radical minority groups that are growing all over the world. They claim that Allah commands them to sell the girls. Those are the people who are determined to wipe out not only Jews, but all non-Muslim “infidels.” It is time that the moderate, peace-loving, Muslim majority takes a stand against the terrorists who spread hate, violence and world dominance. Immigrants to the U.S. and other Western countries have become good citizens while retaining their original ethnicities for many generations. I suspect there is nothing in the Koran that requires the separatism and violent takeover we are seeing all over the world.
HARRIS GOTTLIEB, DUNWOODY
