Ted Anderson

Terrell’s great effort

No Comments 11 February 2010

I was sitting at the Deerfield Windsor School basketball game vs. Terrell Academy on Jan. 21, and thought it was 1986 and I was back in Illinois watching my hometown high school boys varsity teams. Like Terrell Academy, they, too, had no business playing a team like Deerfield and should have been completely outclassed. But [...]

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Tom Knighton

Schools superintendent flap unites transparency seekers

No Comments 08 February 2010

So, a funny thing happened on the way to hiring a new Dougherty County School System superintendent. The School Board managed to unite two television stations and the largest local news paper on one single issue and get their butts named defendant in a lawsuit. Go them. The first amendment, specifically the part about freedom of the [...]

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Sonny Lofton

Not all circus acts are at Civic Center

2 Comments 04 February 2010

Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaid’s singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. Song John Donne 1633 AD This week the world famous Barnum and Bailey [...]

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Lon McNeil

Albany’s stubborn ignorance

No Comments 04 February 2010

Everyone can be stubborn and or ignorant. Many things can cause us to behave stubbornly. Being ignorant about something does not imply stupidity, but simply a lack of knowledge. I am totally ignorant about car maintenance, beyond checking fluids and tire pressure. Ignorance is a deficit that can be filled with information and education, but [...]

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Jim Wilcox

School board action shameless, arrogant

No Comments 03 February 2010

The recent Dougherty County School Board selection process of a new Superintendent would be considered a bad joke, but unfortunately, it’s true. After the complete meltdown with the ADICA board, you would think all local elected bodies would go out of their way to conduct all business openly and fairly. Frankly, we spend more time interviewing [...]

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Tom Knighton

Living in dark times

No Comments 03 February 2010

Picture, if you will, living in a land of tyranny and oppression. It’s hard, I know, since we all know we live in the Land of the Free, so I’ll try and help you picture some details that may help you form that picture in your mind. Follow along at home, and we’ll see what [...]

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Tom Knighton

The problem with America? Americans

No Comments 02 February 2010

Every day, in any given media outlet, someone will tell you who’s to blame for the sorry state of our country. Liberals will shout from the roof tops that the problem lies at the feet of conservatives who favored going to war with Iraq and in stripping away civil liberties. Conservatives will point their wagging [...]

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Bill Waller

Interest heavy in replacing Sanford Bishop

No Comments 02 February 2010

It may be one of the coldest winters on record, but things may be about to heat up in Georgia’s Second Congressional District. At least three, possibly four, candidates are running on the Republican side to challenge Rep. Sanford Bishop. Mike Keown entered the race early. He currently serves as a state representative and a pastor [...]

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Eliminating medical malpractice premiums

Jim Finkelstein

Eliminating medical malpractice premiums

No Comments 28 January 2010

If you are a physician shelling out tens of thousands of dollars annually for malpractice insurance, you should be screaming at your Congressman and senators right now. Why? Because floating around the House of Representatives last fall was a proposal that would have eliminated all of your premiums — you would have paid $0 — had it [...]

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Jim Wilcox

A new ADICA?

No Comments 27 January 2010

It’s a new year, and looks like the city will be forming a new Albany-Dougherty Inner City Authority board. As most have said for some time, the entire board needed to be replaced in order for the public to have any confidence at all in their actions. We feel Jim Taylor, the interim downtown director, should remain [...]

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