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And... a Happy New Year!
Billy Fleming
      “I’m going home, I’m going home, I’m going home!” I wanted to join in the chant with her. The best Christmas present we could’ve hoped for was in Denise’s eyes when the doctor told her she was going to be home for Christmas. After four days in two hospitals with a partially collapsed lung, D...
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Around Washington
Robert Novak
      Tom Delay Returns Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is about to return to the Washington political scene as a high-profile operative for the American Conservative Union if his negotiations with ACU Chairman David Keene are successfully completed.
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All That’s Fit to Print
No round tuits, just do its
Brenda Wall
      Well, we are on the cusp of a new year. This year is almost gone, next year is right around the corner. It is at this time that we are all caught between disappointment that we didn’t quite complete all of this year’s plans and excitement for what the new year will bring.
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Just a word or two of gratitude
Alex McRae
      Dear Time magazine, “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” After more years than I care to count, more heartache than a handful of Shakespearean sonnets and more disappointment than a (Swift) boat full of John Kerry supporters, my efforts have borne fruit.
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Facts not fear on air pollution
Commentary
By Joel Schwartz
      Air pollution has been declining for decades across the United States, yet most Americans still believe air pollution is a growing problem and a serious threat to their health. The reason: most information on air pollution from environmentalists, regulators and journalists — the public’s main sourc...
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Other Voices
The U.S. dollar deserves close scrutiny
Matt Towery
      As a component of George W. Bush’s world of “globalism,” the status and health of the U.S. dollar deserves close scrutiny here at the end of 2006, closer than my mention of it in a recent column. As I’ve written, China is now the holder of an incredible stash of dollars. Some reports have their c...
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From our Files
State-of-the-art school completed
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1996 THE NEW YEAR brings a new school as the $5.1 million dollar state of the art middle school has been completed and teachers have begun packing and moving in. EARLY COUNTY Board of Education member Faye Lewis was recognized by Chairman Bishop Hunter for 12 years of fai...
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