The details are hell
Rome News Tribune Nov. 26, 2007
      IT'S POLITICS, not tax reform, and Georgians should be livid about this flimflam. That's the only impression possibly to be drawn from the released "details" (with more to come) of House Speaker Glenn Richardson's proposal to swap out property taxes for more sales taxes on just about everything.
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Blakely once had a bowl!
Mumbles
Billy Fleming
      It's only a couple of weeks until the bowl season rolls around. The first one will be the Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl. (That's a flower, not a bird dog!) By the time the national championship game rolls around Jan. 7 in New Orleans, you will have watched - at least could've watched - 27 bowl games.
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Cuddly doesn't last
All That's Fit to Print
Brenda Wall
      A couple of weeks ago, I looked over at the car in the next lane of traffic and saw a woman holding a kitten. Actually, she was trying to hold the kitten which was digging its little claws into her shoulder as it tried to climb up the lady's body.
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Pink and blue season is here
Alex McRae
      Like it or not, the holidays are here. For the most part, the stretch from Thanksgiving dinner to New Year's Eve is a time of rejoicing. But the benchmarks of the season are marked in drastically different ways by men and women.
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It brings back memories
LETTERS
      Dear editor, Thank you so much for mentioning Bam's name in the looking back items. He "remembered" the episode in the Macon Hospital when he had contacted the sand worms. (Can you believe that Dr. Crowdis sent him to Macon to the nearest treatment available at the time?
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Saving the candidate Cardwell
Shipp's Georgia
Bill Shipp
      The wheels are falling off Dale Cardwell's campaign bandwagon, and the senatorial election is still nearly a year away. Too bad. Democrat Dale has the makings of an interesting candidate. His main problem: His idealism is torpedoing his pragmatism as he sets out to bring down Republican incumbent...
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Let's meet the false Conservative
Other Voices
Robert Novak
      Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the "Club for Greed"? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle.
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