the SOVEREIGN STATE of AFFAIRS
     
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Super genius
Mitch Clarke
      There's a scene during the second season of "The West Wing" where two White House staffers, Toby and Josh, are discussing a probe that NASA has sent to Mars. Toby says that as the probe descends to the Martian surface it will fire two smaller probes deep into the ground as part of the mission's search for evidence of water under the surface.
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Mumbles
And that would be none!!!
Billy Fleming
      The final minutes of Father's Day were ticking away Sunday night when a life was recklessly snuffed out. Parents and leaders of the community need to take notice of what is going on. Listen to the concerns of our law enforcement. There is a "thug" element in our community that is taking on a gang style mentality.
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All That's Fit to Print
Stop and smell the tomatoes
Brenda Wall
      The tomatoes are coming in and here's my annual ode to my favorite vegetable. I tried so hard not to write about food this week, but I was gifted with my first real tomato of the season and I can't let that occasion go unnoted.
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Be cool, Dad — but be a dad
Alex McRae
      Long, long ago, in a civilization long since forgotten, getting in trouble at school was scary. Going home was even worse. When a kid heard "Just wait till your father gets home," he knew he would be eating dinner standing up until his freshly-tanned bottom got better.
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Capital Impact
DOT looks for the right turn
Tom Crawford
      The State Transportation Board has elected yet another commissioner for that troubled agency: state Rep. Vance Smith (R-Pine Mountain), a person who has some expertise in highway construction because his familyowned business did a lot of road grading back in Harris County.
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Change people are starting to no longer believe in
Matt Towery
      It's finally starting to happen. For months, I've irritated many conservatives by telling them that, like it or not, Barack Obama had high approval ratings, and that most Americans were so enamored with the president that there was no use in attacking him yet.
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From our Files
Rotary Club celebrates eighth year
News from the past
      10 YEARS AGO June 23, 1999 KEEPING PACE with technology, Lucy Hilton Maddox Memorial Library now offers access to the world wide web via two computers available for public use thanks to funding from the Georgia Department of Adult and Technical Education.
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