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- Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Section - Editorials
Our Views: The tax dilemma
This may seem like heresy to many (tea partyers, cover your eyes), but there are occasions when government needs more money. Shocking yes, but true.
Our Views: A taxing question
When The Times launched an effort to find how timely political candidates were in paying their taxes, little did we know the result would be the revelation that you really can't trust those online tax records posted by the Hall County tax commissioner's office.
Our Views: Another chance to halt the gravy train
Amid candidates for Congress, state and local office and a controversial transportation sales tax, you'll find a late addition to the July 31 Republican primary ballot.
Our Views: Remembering freedom’s cost
Every Memorial Day for the past decade or so, we have taken stock in where our country stands as we fight enemies abroad. For quite awhile now, the day set aside in tribute to the nation's war casualties has continued to see that toll mount in deserts of the Middle East.
Our Views: Steer toward a safe summer on roads
With high school and college students out for the summer and vacation season upon us, our already-crowded highways will be clogged with even more travelers in the weeks to come.
Our Views: Grads, prepare to hustle for success
In the days to come, high school and college graduates of the Class of 2012 will grip their diplomas with pride and flip their tassels, leaving the life they've known behind for uncertain waters. Then they will hear speeches warning them of the hard road ahead of them.
Our Views: Invest, shop in our community
Though there are faint, flickering hints of light at the end, the nation remains deep inside a very dark tunnel of financial distress.
Our Views: Hall-Gainesville merger is not likely
In a time when local governments continue to operate under tight budgets, with little relief in sight, it's not surprising the issue of consolidation has again made its way to the front burner.
Our Views: Time to crash the parties
So does anyone still think we don't need to keep close tabs on ethical behavior by government officials? If so, take a look at recent scandals in the nation's capital involving members of the General Service Administration and Secret Service.
Our Views: Advise & consent
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Our Views: Vying for votes
This being an election year, we all knew the 2012 session of the General Assembly would produce its fair share of "hey, look at me" bills designed more to impress voters than to solve their problems.
Our Views: Progress update shows better days ahead
Judging our yearly progress was easier at one time. As Hall County and other communities in Northeast Georgia were growing through the 1990s and early 2000s, the rise in residential population was matched by a expanding commercial base, leading to more schools, more recreational options, more everything. Then the recession hit in late 2008. Since then, our progress nearly became "regress." Jobs were lost, businesses shuttered and commerce stymied. The housing market collapsed, hitting both ...
Our Views: War’s high costs often are hidden
The high cost of war again has been brought into clear focus. A U.S. soldier is accused of going on a violent rampage March 11 in villages near his base in southern Afghanistan, gunning down 16 Afghan civilians; nine of the victims were children. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 38, a married father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., is an 11-year Army veteran on his fourth tour of duty after three deployments to Iraq. He ...
Our Views: School safety is always a priority
People of a certain age remember a time when children felt safe in their homes, their neighborhoods and their schools.
Our Views: Think of primary as a job interview
Georgia voters and those in nine other states are next in line Tuesday to join this year's game of Whac-A-Mole in the Republican campaign for president.
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Our Views: What a tangled web
Dogs and small children, when taught properly, will learn lessons quickly. Punish them with a slap on the behind or reward them with a treat and you'll get the behavior you want.
Our Views: Grads, it's time to cut the apron strings
What a perfect mesh of milestones: Mothers Day and graduation, when a parent's pride intersects with a young person's ascent into the world as an independent adult.
Our Views: Beware the buzz
It's hard to ignore the world around us with so many ways of communication available to people of all ages and parts of the globe. As more of us connect with each other through mobile devices of every kind, we find ourselves less isolated and more integrated, albeit often from a distance linked by satellite.
Our Views: Celebrating Georgia’s new signature reforms
Gov. Nathan Deal's signing pen had a busy week, and as a result, some important new laws are on Georgia's books.
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