DEAR EDITOR: As Cobb County Board of Commissioners Chairman Sam Olens announces the parks bond in Cobb is dead, I read state Rep. Don Wix is co-sponsoring a bill in the General Assembly which pr...
School board retreat spending 'comforting'
DEAR EDITOR : It certainly is comforting to know that our school board spent nearly $6,000 for a retreat in order to learn how to get along while teachers just received three furlough days on...
Columnist Bill Press deserves 'cry baby' title
DEAR EDITOR : If there was ever an adult more worthy of the term “crybaby” it would have to be Bill Press. He now wants to get rid of the filibuster because his idol’s agend...
Health care bill still far from dead
DEAR EDITOR : If we think the health care bill is dead just because the election of Scott Brown proves beyond doubt what was obvious to most, we are sadly mistaken. Nancy Pelosi and other pro...
Jury still out on whether KSU will have football
DEAR EDITOR : On Dec. 20, your sports department wrote, “So don’t be surprised – not even a little” that Kennesaw State University’s Football Exploratory Committ...
State of Union actually was a 'Lie-a-Thon'
DEAR EDITOR : In anticipation of President Obama’s State of the Union speech, I had expected to hear what shape our country is really in, not a campaign speech from Candidate Obama. It ...
Bill Press column on Kennedy/Brown assault on intellect
DEAR EDITOR : Re: Bill Press column, " Ted Kennedy deserved better," Monday’s MDJ Press stated that the only reason Ms. Coakley lost the Senate seat in Massachusetts was b...
Can't afford to wait for state to step in
DEAR EDITOR : The MDJ is to be congratulated on its editorial “The Grand Jury” in its Jan. 22 edition. The only sentence in the entire editorial that I take issue with is the la...
School board has no credibility
DEAR EDITOR : As a former grand jury member and its clerk, I read with interest the comments made by Cobb school board member David Banks in the Jan. 23 issue of the MDJ . “The grand ...
Board's rejection of grand jury report 'arrogant, 'stupid'
DEAR EDITOR : Having read Cobb school board member David Banks’ and Chairwoman Lynnda Crowder-Eagle’s comments about the Cobb grand jury presentment and the board’s upcoming...
CobbWEB: MDJ readers sound off on board's try for video ban
EDITOR’S NOTE : Below is a selection of responses shared by readers of MDJOnline.com in reaction to recent MDJ stories … Cobb school district shifts position on plans to ban medi...
New calendar breaks students' concentration repeatedly
DEAR EDITOR : If I remember correctly, teachers were up in arms not too long ago because CRCT testing was scheduled the week prior to spring break. The testing was eventually moved to after t...
Vote was first step toward year-round schools in Cobb
DEAR EDITOR : Thanks, Cobb County school board, for giving me even more anxiety about the direction our country is headed. I don’t like the “balanced” calendar. Never did an...