Officials should work to improve fire safety
There must be many other readers who are wondering why we have so many dangerous and often fatal fires in the greater Atlanta area. I suspect that lax construction regulations may be to blame. Let’s ask our elected officials to work with their local fire departments to craft preventive standards, such as fire-walls between apartments, smoke alarms, well-planned exits, fire-proof construction materials, etc. I don’t want to see any more Atlanta area families endangered.
BARBARA ROCHELLE, ATLANTA
Republicans won’t let Isakson deviate
In the novel "1984," George Orwell described a government that was in the process of debasing the English language. It was eliminating words that suggested individuality, freedom, and emotion, and twisting the definitions of others, as in the famous phrase "war is peace." So it was with consternation that I read your recent story citing accusations that Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson was considered "divisive" by his party because he sometimes stood with Democrats on important issues. Have we regressed to this? God forbid that an elected official in the United States should proclaim his independent beliefs in the face of party pressure to conform no matter what. In 1984 he would have been arrested by the Thought Police, taken to the Ministry of Love, tortured, brainwashed, converted, and then set free to not be his own person any more until, just to make absolutely sure, The Party delivered a bullet to the back of his head. Mr. Isakson isn't rebelling against his country. He's exercising freedoms the way any reasonable citizen should. His party can't handle that. Are they for real?
RICKS CARSON, ATLANTA
