HOME OPENER PANTHERS CALL FOR “BLACK OUT”
Tweet Special to the Journal ALBANY, GA – The Back-to-Back Champion and reigning Professional Indoor Football League Champion Albany Panthers take Phoebe Field Saturday night against the in-state rival Columbus Lions of the Professional Indoor Football League want to see the fans “Black Out” the Albany Civic Center.
Read More →Dating in middle school leads to higher dropout, drug-use rates
Tweet Written by April Sorrow Athens, Ga. – Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
Read More →Tattoo artist’s death leaves holes for those left behind
Tweet Written by Tom Knighton Albany, Ga – Some would say that if you touch someone’s life, you’ve lead a good life yourself. If that’s true, then it would be hard to have lived a better life that local tattoo artist Steve Martin did. Martin died suddenly Monday morning leaving family and friends behind to [...]
Read More →Ru Story-Huffman named dean of GSW’s James Earl Carter Library
Tweet Special to the Journal AMERICUS, Ga —Ru Story-Huffman, interim dean of the James Earl Carter Library at Georgia Southwestern State University, was officially named dean today. Prior to her role as interim dean, Story-Huffman served as reference librarian and government information coordinator at the Carter Library. She succeeds Vera Weisskopf who retired in March [...]
Read More →Isakson Offers Alternative to ‘Kick The Can’ Budgeting
Tweet “Kick the can” is perhaps the most overused euphemism in Washington these days. It seems at each point a critical deadline on a fiscal issue draws near, some sort of patchwork solution that merely extends the deadline is crafted. We all then write stories about how Congress is just playing “kick the can.”
Read More →Ending the insanity by defending ourselves
Tweet Yesterday, an elderly man was brutally beaten on Clark Avenue. In a town that I can be extremely critical of, this took me to a whole new level of disbelief. The thuggish behavior in this community has been tolerated long enough. Just yesterday, I wrote about how some of this needs to change, and [...]
Read More →Chris Christie to heckler: Public schools need competition
Tweet Written by Robby Soave of the Daily Caller News Foundation New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blasted the current state of public education when challenged by a heckler at a recent town hall meeting.
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