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Where's the trust?
Mitch Clarke
      So Bobby Petrino bolts from his job as coach of the Falcons, and we're left to wonder whether we can ever trust anything a bigtime football coach ever says again.
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Mumbles
Here it comes already!
Billy Fleming
      Look out! Here comes Christmas! False alarm. It's just Heath, Heather and Holden, Lenora, Carl and Jenny, Allen, Denise and Jake, Belle, Crissy and Nick, Lexie and Shelby. That would be all the children, grandchildren and their dogs headed for our house this weekend.
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All That's Fit to Print
Christmas wishes poorly delivered
Brenda Wall
      Every year, I intend to write a really great Christmas column. It is supposed to be 500 words of pure bliss. The reader will laugh and cry and by column end be so infused with the spirit of the season that good tidings will just ooze from the pores. Not happening. I'm just not that good.
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Holy horror - Hanukkah cause for concern?
Alex McRae
      Favorite holiday headline of the year: "Hanukkah causes global warming." If you get a tear in your eye over Elvis' "Blue Christmas," imagine how Jews must feel now that they've been accused of killing the planet by observing a religious ritual that began over two millennia ago.
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Shipp's Georgia
The dreaded "o" word uttered
Bill Shipp
      Gov. Sonny Perdue announced last week that he would be outsourcing state technology jobs in an attempt to save money. The plan is to turn over several technology-related functions to private companies and eliminate about 1,100 jobs.
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Silent forces shape '08 landscape
Matt Towery
      Those who read this column know well that on any given day, I might seem more conservative or more liberal. The fact is that my years of being involved in American politics, and my more recent years of polling and commenting on it, allow me to share different views from all sides of the political ...
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Dawson reports light snow on Friday
From our Files News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO Dec. 25, 1997 MIDNIGHT Madness had downtown business a buzzing. Santa Bucks winners were Linda Craft, Mable McGriff, Claire Houston, Betty Gamble, Jamike Lee, Janis Kehoe, Priscilla Davis, Judy Fleming, Hank Williams, Kimberly McFay and Mary Brown.
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