Thanks for the funding
      Often our Congressmen find themselves under attack for their efforts when working to secure funding for meaningful programs for the citizens of Georgia. I want to present the human side of this story. In Georgia Agriculture much of what we are today is a result of those programs.
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A motley look at the news
All That's Fit to Print
Brenda Wall
      Political candidates aren't the only ones grabbing headlines these days, they are just the only thing you hear news anchors report. There are other stories out there. Here are a few. Monday night, a 69-yearold Florida woman found an 8-foot alligator in her kitchen.
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Bitter? No but gettin' that way
Mumbles
Billy Fleming
      Well, today's the day! The Pennsylvania voters can finally do their dastardly deed, send Hiliary Clinton back to New York and make room on the air waves again for the actual news. Likely? Not! By the time you read this we will all probably be hunkered back down bracing ourselves against the const...
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Working man's (or woman's) blues
Alex McRae
      An already jittery Wall Street really had a spell recently when new unemployment figures came out. The numbers seemed to confirm what some had whispered for weeks...that we're in a recession. The March, 2008, nonfarm payroll numbers dropped by 80,000 jobs. As a result, the unemployment rate jumpe...
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DOT: billion dollar shortfalls - and cupid
Shipp's Georgia
Bill Shipp
      Since last fall, Georgians have been treated to a spectacle from our state Department of Transportation. The rancor in the poisonous relationship between Gov. Sonny Perdue and House Speaker Glenn Richardson, RHiram, has never been higher than when the two were fighting over the replacement for for...
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End withholding, and let Buffet and Gates pay the difference
Other Voices
Matt Towery
      This column isn't going to read very profound or intellectual. And I'm sure others have written before what I'm writing again now. But read on, and let's have a little fun. During this tax-filing week, I've overheard the annoyed mutterings of several of my employees as they return from their visi...
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New street lamps light up depot
From our Files
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO April 23, 1998 EARLY COUNTY'S longtime county administrator, Spencer Mueller, resigned late last week to accept a job with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. THE BLAKELY Garden Club selected the lovely yard of Frances and Stanley Causey on Southside Drive as the Spring ...
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