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Thank your legislators
      To the residents of Southwest Georgia: If you or a family member recently learned about screening tests to find cancer, you may want to thank your local legislator. If you understand more about clinical trials, you may want to thank your local legislator.
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Just can't say enough
      Dear editor, It was such an honor to travel with the 12-andunder recreation boys and girls basketball team these past two weekends. This wasn't the first time Bob and I have had this special opportunity, but it has been over two years. I can't begin to tell you about the wonderful coaches we had. ...
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Mumbles
'Stories' do come to life
      Some 25 or 30 years ago on my way into a snow covered Washington D.C. the driver of the airport van noted that we were approaching the bridge that the airliner taking off from nearby National Airport crashed into a few days earlier as it plunged into the Potomac River.
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All That's Fit to Print
Sticks and stones
Brenda Wall
      Last week, a sports announcer made the remark on air that a woman referee needed to "get back in the kitchen." I believe the remark ended with "where she belonged." I could be wrong. I can't remember where the announcer was from, but I do remember he was a former athlete.
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Alex McRae
Unhealthy spending hurts kids
Alex McRae
      Dear Georgia Kids, Please don't get sick. At least not if you rely on the PeachCare program for health care. PeachCare takes care of medical bills for kids whose parents earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but can't afford private insurance. It helps keep lots of Georgia kids healthy.
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Shipp's Georgia
Return of the state pipeline monster
Bill Shipp
      Remember the standard scene from the old horror movies? Just when the hero sighs with relief that he has finally killed the monster, the damned thing rises up again and grabs the good guy by the throat. So it is in the Georgia General Assembly. The trans-Georgia pipeline is baaaack. We Georgians a...
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Other Voices
Too early to designate 'G' men dead on arrival
Matt Towery
      I know it seems I'm too taken with the subject of Newt Gingrich. And yet, this development bears closer scrutiny: Several weeks ago, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a column by Peter Brown of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
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From our Files
News from the past Sides speaks of local radio station
      10 YEARS AGO March 6, 1997 SPECTRUM convenience store manager Susie Fannon cuts the ribbon during ceremonies with the help of employees, local dignitaries and company officials. MRS. ALMA Hollinger of Blakely was welcomed to service on the Three Notch EMC board of directors.
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