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Whether to try a juvenile as an adult is the most difficult decision a prosecutor faces. Many factors influence the decision --- justice for the victim, potential rehabilitation of the juvenile and protection of the community. Under Georgia law, the maximum amount of supervision that can be imposed on a juvenile is five years. In most cases, this is not nearly enough time to monitor someone who has committed a violent crime. If lengthy incarceration is necessary, the defendant must be tried as an adult. A preferable sentencing structure is the one used in Michigan where the defendant is tried as an adult, but the determination of whether a juvenile will be treated as an adult or a juvenile is made when the defendant reaches 21. The decision at that time is made based on the juvenile's rehabilitative history while incarcerated as well as the facts of the juvenile's crime and criminal history. Without such a sentencing mechanism in Georgia, in most cases the protection of society requires we prosecute juveniles who are charged with violent crimes as adults. For the media to continue to analyze [Timothy McVeigh]'s actions, his words and his execution serves only to achieve the goals of Timothy McVeigh. Shame on you. Stop!

The true reason that redistricting in Coweta County schools is an issue is that a major development is in the Newnan Crossing Elementary School's attendance district. It is called Summer Grove.

In honor of the national no-spank day, I thought about waking my kids up at the stroke of midnight and beating them, just for the principle of it (\"On SpankOut Day, see kids' perspective,\" Viewpoints, April 29). Relax, I am just kidding. I spank, but only as a \"last ditch\" effort.

I'm incensed by Bob Barr's column saying the 1927 flood devastated Louisiana and Mississippi, primarily affecting poor farmers, and that Louisiana was steeped in corruption at that time (\"Corrupt, carefree city reaps what it sowed,\" @issue, Sept. 7). Opening the levees below New Orleans flooded land primarily owned by poor blacks, and saved New Orleans. Illegally taken mineral rights made a fortune for arch-segregationist Leander Perez, and only in the past 10 years has a fraction of the money been returned to the descendants. Later oil industry development of wetlands --- the city's buffer --- destroyed them at a rate of 50,000 acres a year. If Hurricane Katrina had hit a wealthy white enclave in Dallas or Houston, where President [Bush]'s buddies like Enron's Ken Lay lived, he would have sent Air Force One stocked with champagne and caviar. In their gilded bubble, Bush and his family represent the worst of wealth and privilege: arrogance, indifference, racism and elitism. So the people of New Orleans who were left --- who happened to be black and poor ---were hardly a blip on the radar. He cites the nation's \"unprecedented economic prosperity.\" But here's the score: While [Johnny Isakson] says \"unemployment is down,\" the Georgia Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that \"the rate (5.3 percent) includes 34,500 more unemployed Georgians than a year ago.\" Isakson says \"the deficit is shrinking,\" but the national debt on Sept. 8 was $7.96 trillion --- compared to $5.7 trillion in 2000, according to the U.S. House of Representatives Annual Report of the U.S. Government Debt. Tax cuts? As a middle-class wage earner, the amount of my post-2001 tax cuts would barely buy me a bus ticket from New Orleans to Albuquerque.