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Want to play hide-and seek?
Other Voices
      Back when you were a child, life was so much simpler than it is as an adult. This is true for several reasons. First, you didn't have the pressure of having to earn a living or dealing with traffic or worrying about your cholesterol.
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Droopy drawers debate
All That's Fit to Print
      Years ago, a new resident of this community was organizing an event he said "would put Blakely on the map." I explained "being on the map" had its down side. It's nice for a community to excel and be prosperous and be recognized for its accomplished. It's quite another thing to make the news because of something controversial.
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But, for football & taxes
Mumbles
      You would think with the Georgia-Florida game coming up this weekend it would be easy to guess what's on everyone's minds. However, those 3.5 tremors you've been feeling since the weekend aren't coming from the Bulldog Nation preparing for their trek to Jacksonville.
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Brits go batty over squirrels
      Great Britain's war on terror has finally reached the kitchen. The latest news stories don't refer to a plot to poison Brits by the bucketload. They involve a British plan to destroy an enemy even worse than Al Qaida ... gray squirrels.
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Waiting for a modern-day Moses
Shipp's Georgia Bill Shipp
      Of all the crises endured by our state over the last century, none were more predictable than running out of water. Since Atlanta's boom began in the 1950s, federal and state experts have known - and said in writing - that North Georgia's water supply was limited. They said action should be taken immediately to conserve water and extend the water supply.
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Justice with no checks and balances
      Standing outside the State Capitol on the morning of March 11, 2005, I knew there had been a tragedy. A cacophony of sirens, circling helicopters, police motorcycles roaring up sidewalks and people running in various stages of panic were some of the images seared into my memory.
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