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I'm against it
Mitch Clarke
      We have a meeting around here on Thursday to talk about what's planned for the Sunday paper. When we started talking about this section of the paper, I mentioned that my column this week would be about all this winter weather we've had this week.
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I have a slinky, too
Brenda Wall
      I still own a hula hoop. I mention this because the founder of Whamo, the first to market the hula hoop, died last week. He was also responsible for putting the Frisbee on the market. I have one of those, too. My current hula hoop is certainly not my first, but likely to be my last. I bought it t...
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Mumbles
Quick, grab a shovel
Billy Fleming
      Breaking news, really!!! Fred Thompson just announced he was dropping out of the presidential race. Oops, wrong scoop! Actually did read that via email just a few minutes ago, but if you're as tired as I am of listening to talking TV heads talking about the candidates and bogus polls, you don't ...
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Alex McRae
Global morals decaying fast
Alex McRae
      The 2008 religious news got off to a flying start when a priest was busted in Holland for trying to sneak some dope through Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. I'd like to say, "Holy smoke, Batman." But that wouldn't be accurate. The dude wasn't smuggling marijuana. He was nabbed with his pants full of...
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LETTERS
      Thanks to the City of Blakely Dear editor, The Blakely-Early County Chamber of Commerce would like to take this time to thank the City of Blakely for their full support of the Chamber. They have always been willing to support the Chamber with "Holidays On The Square" and to do whatever was nee...
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Shipp's Georgia
The suckers are still biting
Bill Shipp
      First, it was the all-out rush to enact legislation to stop gay marriages. But gay marriages were already illegal. Then it was the mad dash to require voter IDs to stop fraud at the polls. But there was no fraud at the polls. Absentee voting was fraught with crookedness and might have needed rei...
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Race and religion heat up primaries
Matt Towery
      I've got to hand it to Barack Obama. His team managed to take mangled words from Bill and Hillary Clinton and create an explosive racial divide just in time for some major southern primaries. I'll get back to that in a bit. I first need to tip my old political-strategist hat to the directors of a...
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From our Files News from the past
Manrys receive January yard of the month
      10 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1998 FOR NEARLY three decades, low income families in Early County have received assistance through the Department of Agriculture's food stamp program. Beginning next month, food stamp recipients will use an electronic benefits transfer card to purchase food at local groc...
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