Trump deserves better

Enough, already! Although I disagree with Trump on some issues, It would be refreshing to see the local and national media give him fair coverage at least 25% of the time. (That’s not asking too much, is it?).

I’m sort of a “news junkie” and it’s so unsettling to watch Trump give a speech and then watch the news outlets completely distort what he has said, especially CNN and MSNBC. Unfortunately, the L-E. is no better. As an example, look at the Opinion pages of July 31. You have Leonard Pitts: “.. the GOP convention had all the incandescent joy of a biblical plague, (while) the Dem. convention ... was as bracing as snow down your back on the most scalding day in August.” Can anyone explain why the LE prints his extremely biased column on a fairly regular basis since he writes for the Miami Herald and not any national news outlet?

And then there’s the “editorial cartoon?” the same date showing Trumps success in “I never thought he would go this far in the polls, primary wins and GOP nomination” and ending with “I never thought he would go this far” and shows him using atomic bombs. On another matter, just saw Hillary Clinton campaigning in a black church and the members standing and cheering. For some reason I didn’t think this was appropriate, but it’s Hillary and apparently she can do what she wants and nobody holds her accountable. The news outlets would go bananas if Trump campaigned in a “white” church. Finally, this notion that some pollsters want you to believe that “the majority of Trump supporters are uneducated white males” -- if a pollster would state that the majority of Clinton’s supporters are uneducated white women and blacks, it would be considered racist or sexist.

Children in need

On behalf of the staff and Board of Directors of Feeding the Valley food bank, we would like to express our gratitude to WRBL and sponsors WOW!, Ken Nugent Law Firm, Amerigroup and Daniel Appliance for the Kids Summer Cupboard food and fund drive campaign during the month of July.

In Georgia, one in five children is considered food insecure. To address this problem, we provide 1,500 meals to children daily through our expanding Kids Café program. The food and financial donations raised from this event will provide 7,650 meals for children in need, and help us move through the time of year when demand is high and our food inventories are low. Bringing awareness to the problem of hunger during the summer months when school is out is important to our mission and this program helped tremendously in sharing this story.

Last year, Feeding the Valley food bank distributed 7.9 million pounds of food to our 14-county service area, and could not do this without the help of individuals, businesses and civic leaders who give of their time and resources to help others.

We appreciate our wonderful community that always comes together to help our local non-profit organizations and cares about the needs of others.

Together we can solve hunger one meal at a time.

Better solution

I read the article about the city's decision to install a new traffic system at the interchange of Beaver Run and US 80.

I hate it when our city officials waste our taxpayers’ money!

All they have to do is reverse the light setting for Beaver Run road and the traffic coming out of the Woodruff Development . Now it is set for the Beaver Run traffic to go first and then the traffic from Woodruff.

By reversing these, the intersection problem would be solved and the money could be used for other purposes.

Cleaner, safer

In response to the Public Service Commission's approval of $99 million for Georgia Power's study of a new nuclear power plant site: Despite the fact that Georgia Power is more than $ 700 million over budget and years behind schedule on construction of its two new nuclear reactors for Plant Vogtle, Georgia Power is already lobbying to construct an additional power plant in Stewart County. This money is of course taken from the ratepayers.

In addition, nuclear power uses huge amounts of water — it is the most water-intensive type of energy generation in Georgia. Not only that, Georgia Power is using the construction of these nuclear plants to forestall any future pushes for increased renewables for the state. They will be able to point to the exorbitant cost of the ongoing construction of multiple plants as a reason to refuse to spend any additional money on increased wind and solar initiatives.

In fact, it would be much more beneficial in the long term to devote these resources to sources of clean, safe, renewable energy like solar or wind.

Georgia should take a stand, not as a follower in renewable energy technology, but as a precedent-setter and innovator for clean energy and citizen safety. And our first step toward this future must come from widespread informed involvement and pressure from Georgians to reject this new nuclear plant.

This story was originally published August 1, 2016 at 3:29 PM with the headline "Trump deserves better."