Opinion: community columnists
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King: Court turns corporations into citizens All living creatures have a way to communicate. Humans use words. They talk. Spoken, written or signed by the deaf, words are how people relate to one another and how they form a society. |
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Yarbrough: Skeeter puts it all in perspective Whenever this world starts looking too complicated, I call my friend Skeeter Skates, owner of Skeeter’s Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Greater Metropolitan Pooler. Skeeter has a wonderful way of putting things into perspective. |
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Glazer: Cost of smoking goes beyond the price of a pack I grew up among smokers. Both grandfathers were Prince Albert men, rolling their own cigarettes in tissue-thin paper filled with shreds of tobacco. I kept my preschool treasures in one of the empty red tins with its hinged lid and drawing of the portly prince on the front. |
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Crawford: Georgia still on a road to nowhere When Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stopped in Atlanta last September, he was asked about Georgia's prospects for getting some of the $8 billion in federal stimulus funds being allocated for a network of high-speed passenger rail lines. |
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Oglesby: Solutions at hand, if both sides work at it While elated the elephant erased the donkey's veto-proof Senate with a victory in Massachusetts, I hope the GOP doesn't again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. While the vote clearly repudiated President Barack Obama, most specifically the health plan, it even more signaled that voters want action and progress on problems including health care and other major issues, now. They don't want to see partisan efforts solely to weaken Obama, even ... |
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Nichols: World must respond to help Haiti rebuild Bangladesh may be the poorest country in Asia. There can be no doubt that the poorest country in the Americas is Haiti. |
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Yarbrough: Georgia needs a tea party protest What this state needs is a good old-fashioned tea party. Not one directed at the liberal weenies in Washington who tried to ram health care reform down our throats. This protest needs to focus on the state of Georgia. |
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Corn: PR push by industries torpedoed health reform By any sound economic appraisal of the Medicare system, the generation of Americans younger than 35 will never receive benefits from this welfare program. The program cannot continue to fund itself in its current form. Yet any mention of cutting benefits is met with the most vehement resistance from our elder generation. |
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Crawford: Gloomy times under the Gold Dome This is not a fun time to be a state legislator in Georgia. You can see it in all the long faces in the House and Senate chambers. You can hear it in the committee rooms as lawmakers fret over the difficulty of dealing with constituents who keep complaining about services being cut. |
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Guest column: Teacher evaluations, proper funding go hand in hand The single, most important variable in a student’s access to learning, no matter where one is on the globe, is an effective teacher. A recent study found that assigning great teachers to a class of disadvantaged children for five consecutive years closed the achievement gap between them and their peers. Who could argue that there is an urgent need for a highly effective teacher in every classroom, as well as highly effective ... |
