Columns

Long and winding road

No Comments 31 August 2010

A three year journey came to an end this year as the Georgia state legislature finally came up with a plan that will address our state’s growing transportation needs. Stuck in the confines of deciding between a statewide or regional approach to our transportation needs, the legislature has been deadlocked the past few years and [...]

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Kevin Sproul

Gun law update

No Comments 31 August 2010

With the change in gun laws, followed by the Supreme Court’s decision that cities and states can’t infringe on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, there is confusion about just exactly what folks can and can’t do with their firearms. Please allow me to clarify some issues. Firstly, the Supreme Court’s decision [...]

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Locals should embrace state’s cheating probe

Government, Jim Wilcox

Locals should embrace state’s cheating probe

No Comments 31 August 2010

The Dougherty County school system is now under investigation because the leaders refuse to try to find out who tampered with standardized tests. It is clear to the state that someone went behind the students and changed incorrect answers to correct answers so that the Dougherty County school system would not look so bad in [...]

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City should crack  down on Cutliff

Jim Wilcox

City should crack down on Cutliff

No Comments 25 August 2010

The Albany City Commission decided last week to give up on recouping more than a quarter of a million dollars from Cutliff Grove Family Resource Center is utterly ridiculous. The group was handed $374,000 in federal tax dollars by the city of Albany.

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Cut and run on Cutliff

Bill Waller

Cut and run on Cutliff

1 Comment 24 August 2010

May I ask you to loan me some money? You see, I have a business idea and I need $374,000. I know, that is a lot of money, but I’m good for it. A business plan you ask? Sure I have one. You see, there is a swell piece of property that I am going purchase for $95,000. Oh, [...]

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Georgia History being ignored

Tom Knighton

Georgia History being ignored

1 Comment 20 August 2010

Throughout the State of Georgia, people are starting to really gear up for the general election, especially now that we know who the Democrats and the Republicans will put up before us. Roy Barnes, who’s already done a stint in the Governor’s Mansion, and former Congressman Nathan Deal will be the focus of a lot [...]

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Columns

Be an entrepreneur

1 Comment 20 August 2010

Having just learned that his assembly line job no longer exists, he trudges home to his family of four wondering how he will support them.  Thoughts go back to his high school days where he wished that he took his studies more seriously because he realizes as a high school graduate that his options are [...]

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Most drownings can be prevented

Jim Wilcox

Most drownings can be prevented

No Comments 18 August 2010

Two young teenage brothers were pulled out of an Albany Motel pool last Sunday afternoon. They both died. A 13-year-old boy drowned last week in the Ocmulgee River in Telfair County. In July, an 18-year-old man drowned while swimming in the Withlacoochee River in Lowndes County. That same month, two Wilcox County youngsters drowned in a [...]

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Dems on wrong side of gun rights

Tom Knighton

Dems on wrong side of gun rights

3 Comments 12 August 2010

For some reason, the Second Amendment is a controversial one. In pretty plain language, it says that the right to keep and bear arms “shall not be infringed”. The Supreme Court has confirmed that it’s an individual right, which never should have been in doubt since there’s no reason for the government to need to [...]

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Jeff Sexton

Lee transparent as mud

No Comments 12 August 2010

Last week, the Lee County Board of Commissioners appointed Al Crace of Roswell, Ga., as the interim county administrator. Per both Crace and Lee County Board of Commissioners Chairman Ed Duffy, this is to be a temporary position lasting roughly five months or so. In other words, he could well be gone before the end [...]

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