Lottery Hits the Jackpot
By Randy Hicks, President of Georgia Family Council
      It looks like it's going to be a very Merry Christmas at the office of the Georgia Lottery this year. According to reports, a whopping $3 million in bonuses will be disbursed among the 260 lottery employees, including a check for $236,500 to lottery president and CEO Margaret DeFrancisco.
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RFD
By Bonnie K. Taylor General Manager The True Citizen
      Nan Palmer and Amy Lively called in a panic last Wednesday morning wanting to get an addition in the newspaper. As late as The True Citizen was, I was of no help to them. They placed a "thank you" ad in the newspaper for the groups participating in Christmas on Liberty and left some group names...
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THE OLD MAN'S HAT
Marshall Singletary
      His hat hangs on a peg in the hallway where he left it the last time he wore it. It's a continuing reminder that the old man once walked among us. Of course, most who knew him need no reminders that he was once among us. For better or worse, his presence was indelibly stamped upon our memory.
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WHAT COULD'VE BEEN
Bill Shipp
      One-time legendary state House Speaker Tom Murphy said, "You've got to be careful with election legislation. More often than not, it doesn't do what you're trying to do, and eventually it backfires." Well, Georgia's presidential primary schedule certainly didn't take long to backfire.
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Dixie Divas
A WORD SPOKEN SHOULD BE A WORD KEPT
      The man heard us talking and leaned over toward the little table at which we were sitting in the famed Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. "Where y'all from?" he asked, punctuating the question with a big grin. We three were all Southerners.
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THIS WEEK
Don Lively
      This was not going to be a good week. I knew that from the moment I landed in Denver. In all the years that I lived out West I had never flown into a snowstorm. Until this week.
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