DeKalb needs full restructuring
The residents of unincorporated DeKalb have an opportunity. Should they choose cityhood? Or should they call for a complete overhaul of the government at the county level and work to clean up and clean out the real problems? Cityhood will not change the schools. Nor will it provide a lot of the essential services we now get from the county. It will not change the way the county is run or provide accountability from leaders for our tax dollars.
I agree with Gov. Nathan Deal that we need to abolish the CEO position and reorganize the county government (“Deal endorses plan to abolish DeKalb CEO position,” Oct. 20, Metro). Perhaps our legislators would have been wiser two years ago to have had a referendum put before the voters of DeKalb to restructure county government. The results of that referendum would have helped determine the need for cityhood and perhaps been the new beginning that is needed for the county.
EMILY SUHR, DECATUR
PC police run amok at Ga. Tech
There is no better example of the cancer of political correctness than what is happening at Georgia Tech (“Georgia Tech restricts frat,” Oct. 16, News). A fraternity has been suspended based on unproven hearsay after a black women claimed somebody yelled a racially charged comment. The fraternity and its national office vigorously deny this happened. This is an example of “she said, they said.” This affair demonstrates two tenets of political correctness: In any racial dispute, whites are considered guilty until proven innocent; and, the authorities always side against the whites.
WALTER WATKINS, ATLANTA
Left is off base with gun claims
Once again, we have an Opinion column that draws conclusions based on a very carefully fabricated linkage between facts that have no connection, and on conclusions that don’t flow from the facts (“Gun industry must not be shielded from liability,” Oct. 2o, Opinion). Columnist Mary Sanchez first cites Hillary Clinton’s angst about gun manufacturers not being held responsible for gun crime. Then, she goes on to relate the story of a gun dealer who was found guilty of sales to a straw purchaser. The two are completely unrelated. The manufacturer made a product that apparently functioned as designed and had no role in the retail sale.
If manufacturers can be held liable for making a product that works yet causes injury or death, then automobile manufacturers need to close up shop today. Sanchez shifts gears again to demand that manufacturers consider safety and immediately switches back to the sellers’ responsibility. It’s classic political schizophrenia, courtesy of the left.
DENNIS MCGOWAN, SNELLVILLE
