Economies don't fail, people do
Guest Editorial by Randy Hicks President of Georgia Family Council
      The blame game is well underway. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened the debate over the $700 billion bailout package on September 29th, she inexplicably began by blaming President Bush and the Republicans.
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RFD
      Congratulations to Greg and Cathy Hawkins and Isaac and Melanie Beard and Pauline Beard on the birth of their identical twin grandsons born on Sept. 21, 2008, at the University Hospital in Augsuta. The babies were five weeks early. Nearly two months ago, the twins mother, Dana Hawkins Beard was p...
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Bill Shipp
A DOG-GONE MESS
      Georgia has one of the largest and most violent prison populations in the country, yet the state - in its haste to try to balance an insanely optimistic budget in a recession - has cut prison guards' pay to just four days a week.
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Don Lively
THE NEWEST TEXAN
      Everybody knows somebody from Texas. The Lone Star State is so big it would be hard to NOT know someone from there. Out West there has always been a friendly rivalry between all of the other states and Texas. The reasons have a lot to do with the fact that large portions of the other states have...
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Dixie Divas
      An email arrived one day from a dear, old friend who was once my boss when he was managing editor of a daily newspaper where I worked during college and which was later my first full-time job. To him and to many, I owe much. The only great debts I have and the only ones I will never, even throu...
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Other Voices
By F. Leslie Jenkins Jr. Burke's Banter Boy
      It's early Saturday morning, 3 a. m. to be exact, and Brinson's High Yallar engineer blast the horn of his huge yellow steam locomotive. Behind the locomotive are twelve matching yellow passengers cars. The train and crew are ready to begin the trip to Savannah.
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Letter to the Editor
'Time for a change'
      Editor: I am outraged at the letter the Board of Education sent home about what happened on Oct. 1. Do they think we are stupid?! The have sat back and let this school get out of control.
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Letters welcome
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