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The best mail call ... ever
      I've been back in Iraq for just over a month. I have been heavily engaged with situations here and have not much time to reflect, on things back in Calhoun County.
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Mumbles
Red clay in the carpets
Billy Fleming
      There was a good turnout of officials at last Tuesday's meeting at the Commerce Club in Atlanta. It reminded me of years past when the chamber hosted one or two similar events each year - sometimes in Atlanta, sometimes here in Early County. We mixed and mingled with the Atlanta crowd quite often...
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All That's Fit to Print
Time to stop whining
Brenda Wall
      A 101-year-old woman was mugged in her apartment building's foyer. It's all on tape and the tape hit the news channels this past weekend. It's pretty gruesome. In grainy black and white, we see a little old lady and her aluminum walker being approached by a man in a hooded coat.
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Alex McRae
Bureaucrats - a chronic ailment
Alex McRae
      It may have been the most bipartisan moment in American history. Moments after the story broke, all 535 members of the U.S. House and Senate crawled out of their plush offices, leaned toward the nearest camera and told the exact same lie.
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Shipp's Georgia
What happened to the untouchables?
Bill Shipp
      Democrats in Congress have used their newly won subpoena power to hold hearings in which former Bush Justice Department U.S. attorneys told tales of political pressure on public corruption investigations.
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Other Voices
Did you write and thank your Uncle Bubba?
Mitch Clarke
      My mother has always been a stickler for manners and etiquette. She's sort of the Emily Post of southwest Georgia. She thinks you should always write a thank you note anytime someone does something nice for you. She taught my brother and me that we always should say "yes, ma'm," "no, ma'm," "thank...
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From our Files
Thermometer drops to 20 degrees
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO March 13, 1997 SOUTHWEST Georgia Academy senior Al Mathis scored his 1000th basket in the first round of the state GISA basketball playoffs. BECCA Hinson, FHA vice president of parliamentary law at Early County High has been nominated by the chapter and selected by the state execu...
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