February 3, 2010 / Editorials

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All That’s Fit to Print

Tacky from top to bottom
Brenda Wall

So I heard on the news last night that Nancy Pelosi’s trips home over the last two years have cost $2 million for the plane rides and another $100,000 for food. More...

LETTERS

I’m blessed to be alive

Dear editor: I was involved in the accident at the intersection of Hwy. 84 and Spooner Quarter Road early Wednesday morning, Jan. 27, 2010. Blinded by the sun, I pulled out in front of a tractor-trailer. More...

Other Voices

A tale of bias and the Washington mentality
Matt Towery

If you want to hear a tale of being beaten up by the Democratic National Party for just delivering an unbiased report, read on. More...

Mumbles

Short end of the stick
Billy Fleming

I guess Obama is hoping the American people are over the “sticker shock” that is coming with his administration. How else could he have the audacity to propose the $3.8 trillion budget this week that includes a $1.56 trillion deficit. More...

What’s happened to common sense?

Other Voices
Mitch Clarke

With all due apologies to anyone this column may resemble, we’ve become a nation of idiots. I don’t think I’m being too harsh. More...

Easy rider with training wheels

Alex McRae

A few weeks ago my granddaughter, Bella Ruth McRae, celebrated her third birthday. A swell party was thrown and everyone who mattered in Bella’s life was there. All came bearing gifts. More...

Capital Impact

We’re waving goodbye to the future
Tom Crawford

When Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stopped in Atlanta last September, he was asked about Georgia’s prospects for getting some of the $8 billion in federal stimulus funds being allocated for a network of high-speed passenger rail lines More...

From our Files

Ellis opens barber shop
News from the past

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 2, 2000 MR. AND Mrs. Joseph Thomas Owen of Blakely announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Amanda Michelle, to William Wesley Brewer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray Brewer of Jackson, Tenn. More...