Login Profile Get News Updates Print Edition
Flip Edition
2006-07-05 digital edition
Editorials July 5, 2006  RSS feed
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR -
Georgia Lottery is not an issue in 2006
     Dear Editor, In September 1992 Cathy Cox, by my invitation, addressed the Peter Early Chapter, DAR during our Constitution Week meeting. She was running for the Georgia House of Representatives at the time. After she finished her speech we were allowed to ask questions on the issues at the time and
More ...

All That's Fit to Print
Save the penny, it makes cents
     In the last few weeks, I've seen two different news stories on the penny. It seems that there are those in the country who feel the penny has lost its usefulness. And, the U.S. Treasury says rising production costs make a penny cost 1.2 cents to produce. Some say it's a losing proposition. I'm guess
More ...

Mumbles
A time for BBQ, flag waving
     This thought is a sad and alarming thought, but true. There are thousands of people in our country today, some of them products of our own schools, not illegal immigrants, that don't know why July 4th is celebrated.
More ...

Alex McRae
Giving hot news the cold shoulder
     Breaking up is hard to do, but after years of fun, it's time for our warm relationship to draw to a close.
More ...

Shipp's Georgia
Hosting the King papers
     Let's not get carried away. Georgia and Atlanta are probably not ready for an international civil rights museum. Heck, we couldn't even land a NASCAR museum - though our state government was ready to give away the taxpayers' store to bring a collection of old racecars to the Peach State.
More ...

From our Files
Mobile imaging unit at Early Memorial
     tJuly 4, 1996 SCIENTIFIC AG announces a $3.6 million investment to build a plant that will convert peanut hulls into an environmental clean-up/soil remediation chemical. Local Danny Day with the help of his son, Tyler, officially broke ground this week.
More ...