LETTERS
It's Heart Health Month
      Dear editor, Southwest Georgia, with its bountiful fried chicken, fish fries, barbecue, pecan pie and biscuits and gravy, has a well-deserved reputation for hospitality. Unfortunately, our region has opened its doors to an unwelcome guest: cardiovascular disease, the country's leading cause of dea...
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All That's Fit to Print
Guess what? We don't care
      I was watching one of those quasi-liberal news shows last week when I heard that the Democratic caucus had made a really important decision. Before I get to that, let me just say that I try to balance my news coverage equally between left-biased and right-biased. I can no longer find just the news.
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Mumbles
Reasons to get excited
Billy Fleming
      I was going to ramble on here about all the get-richquick schemes and scams I've seen in my lifetime, especially since we have the Internet. If I didn't know better I would declare that the thing was designed by crooks, built by crooks for crooks. But, we all know that's not so. Al Gore told us so...
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Alex McRae
Progress threatens island paradise
Alex McRae
      Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue opened the legislative year vowing to do more to protect Georgia's natural resources. His buddies obviously didn't get the memo.
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Shipp's Georgia
Living, dying and insurance
Bill Shipp
      A child living in Georgia is twice as likely to die before age 14 as a child living in Nebraska or Iowa or at least eight other states. An expectant mother in Georgia is twice as likely to receive inadequate prenatal care as a mother in Wisconsin or Vermont.
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Other Voices
G.W. Bush - a president at bay
Robert Novak
      When President Bush in his State of the Union address Tuesday night called for a bipartisan "special advisory council" of congressional leaders on the war against terrorism, he had in his pocket a rude rejection from Democratic leaders. Thank you very much, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senat...
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Just Jakin
Win Warren - long time gone
Jean Retherford
      Ninety Springs, a poem by Don Harvey, on the painting by Win Warren I saw in the face of an aging man, Indelibly etched, the Creator's plan; Then reached for my brush in a frenzied race To record on canvas that story-filled face.
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