Big bump in road
The following editorial appeared in the December 24, 2006 Rome News-Tribune.
      THE ANNOUNCED delays in state road construction projects, including several of great importance to Greater Rome, should have come as no surprise. The only surprise is that it took so long for the ax to fall. What's new this time isn't the "bad news" for Floyd County but rather the dropping of "bad...
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All That's Fit to Print
The week that was
Brenda Wall
      The big news over the weekend was Hillary Clinton throwing her hat into the 2008 presidential race. If I saw it once, I saw it two dozen times, "breaking news." Yeah, right. If Hillary kept her hat on, sat out the upcoming battle for the White House, now that would be breaking news.
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Mumbles
Yes, time will tell, soon
Billy Fleming
      When I became involved in the community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the biggest reason for our community's lack of development always boiled down to the lack of a four-lane road. I said it then, and I will say it again now. While it would have been great to have had a four-lane road to sell...
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Alex McRae
Think big - a shrine fit for a superstar
Alex McRae
      James Brown made a million bucks singing "I Feel Good." Right now, "The Hardest Working Man In Show Business" feels anything but good. In fact, he doesn't feel anything at all. The "Godfather of Soul" passed away on Christmas Day 2006. But Brown didn't go very far. Concert promoters used to say: "...
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Shipp's Georgia
Tom W. Brown: In memoriam
Bill Shipp
      Georgia lost a legend last weekend. Tom Watson Brown, a rich man and a soft touch for politicians of nearly all stripes, died at age 73 of complications from diabetes. His funeral is to be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Hickory Hill estate in Thomson, Ga., where his great-grandfather, fiery national P...
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Other Voices
Student loan scam hidden in bill
Robert Novak
      Democrats last Wednesday were extolling their student loan bill for opening college to modest-income Americans when Rep. Tom Price, a second-term Republican from Georgia, took the House floor. "If only this bill did what they say," Price declared. His admonition constituted more than the usual hype...
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