Comments from our readers:

KUDOS TO THE wonderful faces of survival stories. This rave is sincerely sent to all the women featured.

RANT TO OUR government: Debt relief will come when you stop rewarding the lazy and the women having so many kids.

TREMENDOUS RAVE to Georgia Bank & Trust for being at the top of its game for a "hometown" bank.

HERE WE GO AGAIN. Black-robed morons gave convicted cop-killer Troy Davis another stay of execution.

RANT TO THE PATRONS of The Augusta Symphony at the recent Three Dog Night concert. What a bunch of boring, lame, non-enthusiastic dead-heads. The concert was wonderful, but I felt bad both for the symphony and the band.

MY CAR BROKE DOWN on Walton Way, and three residents from the community stopped to help me. There are still some good people in the world.

RAVE FOR SHERIFF Ronnie Strength. I live in the Laney-Walker/Bethlehem neighborhood, and I placed my home on house watch while I was away last week on a business trip. You guys did a fine job because my neighbors told me so. Thank you all very much.

A RANT TO ALL those public school principals who receive special education funds and still have teachers who don't have materials equal to the general education classrooms.

(CITY ADMINISTRATOR Fred) Russell seems to think inflation, particularly in the price of gasoline, justifies raising our property taxes. When inflation hits working people, we have to tighten our belts. Augusta needs to do the same thing we have to do: Cut spending!