Dependency Ratios
      There is a term in the study of demographics called "dependency ratios". It refers to the number of dependent residents in a community compared to the number of working age persons. The ratio is important because, even though all members of a community are consumers, only a certain number are prod...
More ...

Political Cartoon
Read the Story...

Looking Back
      10 years ago: Sept. 17, 1997 Burke County Commissioners were considering an ordinance which would stop or delay construction of a 10,000 head hog farm in the county. Local citizens were requesting that a full environmental impact study be done before the farm was built.
More ...

RFD
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      Congratualtions to Mr. and Mrs. Hank Tinley on their whirlwind romance and marriage. Monica McClain and Hank Tinley were married last Friday morning at the Burke County Court House with their parents, Al and Louise McClain, Henry and Dale Tinley, grandmother, Clara Belle McClain, and her aunt, S...
More ...

COWBOY MOVIES
Marshall Singletary
      Margaret and I double dated with some friends last night. Nothing fancy, just good conversation, good food and a movie. This time the guys were able to avoid the "chick flick"that we usually (somewhat) graciously settle for on date.
More ...

OPERATION QUICKSAND
Bill Shipp
      Don't kid yourself. We're stuck in Iraq. If not in it, then somewhere around it. Fifty years from now, we'll still be there. We can't get out. Thank George W. Bush for that. And thank Democrats and Republicans alike who bought his baloney and applauded his invasion.
More ...

Dixie Divas
WHEN THE RICH LAUGH (AND DIE)
      Along the winding garden path of my life, I have discovered that F. Scott Fitzgerald was basically correct when he rem arked "The rich are different from you and I." I have observed that many who are rich from many generations back are impeccably well-mannered.
More ...

TOP 10 REASONS WOMEN LOVE SEC FOOTBALL
Lucy Adams
      Countdown of the top ten reasons women love SEC football: 10) Cooler temperatures come with football season. The men in our lives sweat less and smell better. 9) Even when the Dawgs choke on a chicken bone, a bad day in Athens (Oxford, Knoxville, Tuscaloosa, pick your place) beats a beautifu...
More ...