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Ten reasons to vote 'no' on the charter school amendment
The charter school amendment will be decided on Nov. 6. If it doesn’t pass, it will be the greatest upset since David conked Goliath with a rock. Give me the money that has been made available to t...
Nov 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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FACT CHECK: Convention speakers stray from reality
WASHINGTON (AP) — Laying out the first plans for his party's presidential ticket, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took some factual shortcuts Wednesday night when he attacked President Bara...
Aug 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tom Fanning: The Natural Gas Skeptic
'I'm here to talk about what we're calling an 'all of the above' energy strategy," President Obama said the other day. Funny, Mitt Romney also calls it that. Everyone in Washington calls it that, a...
Jun 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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GPSC Commissioner Tim Echols speaks on coal, jobs and your electric bill
Part of the job of the Public Service Commission here in Georgia is certifying how and where Georgia Power gets the electricity you use. With ever changing federal environmental regulations, the PS...
Dec 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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FILE: A jobs sign hangs above the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)
Georgia lacks jobs for unemployed workers
Unemployed workers cannot find jobs that don’t exist. Our state needs to have an informed discussion that addresses unemployment and starts with the facts. Georgia is facing historic levels of une...
Jul 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Report shows US kids don’t know the past, which is harmful in the present
Less than a quarter of all students in the United States has a working knowledge of history appropriate for their grade level. Please tuck that troubling little “factoid” in the back of your mind ...
Jul 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Brazille: A lot of fiction in budget talks
There is nothing in Washington that needs a “bull free zone” more than the current stalemate between Republicans and Democrats on the national budget and what to do about the deficits. Let’s examin...
Apr 08, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 102 102 recommendations | email to a friend
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When it comes to cell phones your 4th Amendment rights are weak
I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I understand probable cause, but I don't like the trend in court rulings about cell phones these days. The California Supreme court recently ruled that warrant...
Jan 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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Joining a botnet is a bad idea
by Jake Carter
Dec 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
Most people reading this don’t know me yet. I was hired on just over a week ago to be a web editor of the Polk Fishwrap. In short, I’m the guy posting all the stories to this web-site. Part of my...
Call it a hunch
by Brad Easterwood
Jun 30, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
I remember the day almost like it was yesterday. Game three of the region championship series, bottom of the seventh, the score tied at 2-2 with two outs and the bases loaded against Cedartown’s P...
Taking in a game just for fun
by Brad Easterwood
Jun 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
Being a sports writer is a lot of fun. Not only do you get free access to a ton of games, but you also get the chance to make a lot of kids happy by putting their names and photos in the newspaper....
GOP Docs Fight to Protect American Patients from Obama Nominee
Jun 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 70 70 recommendations | email to a friend
Letter to President Obama co-signed by local U.S. congressman, U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta).
Mexico has its own Arizona problem
by Andres Oppenheimer
May 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
One of the most frequent arguments of supporters of Arizona's anti-immigration law is that it doesn't do anything different than what Mexico does with undocumented Central American migrants, or wha...
Obama marches on despite controversies

President Barack Obama speaks about jobs, at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)His agenda doesn't appear to have been dramatically harmed thus far.


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Winning numbers drawn in Powerball jackpot

Brianwa Flores, left, and Katie Cosentino from Illinois State Lottery greet hockey fans before Game 2 of an NHL hockey playoff Western Conference semifinal between the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago, Saturday, May 18, 2013. A little more than a year after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize, the jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing was nearing historic territory. Should nobody pick the correct six numbers, the prize money will roll over to next week's drawing and almost certainly eclipse the $656 million doled out to winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Lottery officials have announced winning numbers in a massive jackpot.


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Up to 60 hurt after car drives into Va. parade

Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., Saturday, May 18, 2013. Witnesses said the car drove into a crowd at the parade and hurt several people, but the nature of their injuries wasn't immediately known. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk)An elderly driver plowed into dozens of marchers, authorities say.


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