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Weighing higher ed in budget balancing act
From the Macon Telegraph, March 8, 2010 - Our Georgia legislators face an unenviable task. Declining state revenues, if the latest projections hold true, will require additional deep and painful ...
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King Kandy and the Gingerbread People
WASHINGTON — Skipping through the Candy Land of the health-care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for Ame...
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Stop trying to save the planet
Contrary to the sign at the grocery store, it’s pretty safe to say you will not be able to save the Earth by purchasing a reusable bag. Do an experiment: buy a canvas bag and see if the issue is t...
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Throwing more money at Haiti
Dozens of governments and aid groups are scheduled to meet at the United Nations later this month to pledge millions, perhaps billions, in assistance to Haiti. My advice to many of those donors: S...
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Were the Founding Fathers Media Socialists?
The Federal Communications Commission’s Chief Diversity Officer, Mark Lloyd, wants government to socialize the media. In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce, Lloyd calls for a far-reaching governmen...
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CCH's departure doesn't mean Rome's sky is falling
BYE BYE to CCH Small Firm Services and good luck to the company, and those of the 372 Rome employees who stick with it, as it moves to a new headquarters in Cobb County. However, the story h...
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Ballet doesn’t make me less of a man
I have a confession to make, and I won’t be able to sleep until I get it off of my chest. So here it is. I went to the ballet the other night. There, I feel better already. A weight has been lifte...
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Sounds of wind and rain once defined one’s home
It used to be said that a person’s ultimate dream was to live in a brick house. If that be so, my dream has come true, for I now live in a brick house. Why then why do I yearn for the houses that ...
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Release Russian oil tycoon
by Ariel Cohen
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WASHINGTON — President Barak Obama has his hands full these days dealing with Russia. However, high on his agenda should be the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Moscow’s most famous prisoner. Suc...
UC Irvine’s free speech debate
by Erwin Chemerinsky
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College campuses, especially at public universities, are places where all ideas should be expressed and debated. No speech ever should be stopped or punished because of the viewpoint expressed. Of ...
Rome Symphony wows again
by Bradford C. Gooch
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Another dynamic duo nattily dressed in black invaded the City Auditorium on the night of Feb. 27, and conquered Rome. This was a special program not just because soloists Timothy Schwarz, violin an...
10 reforms to cover pre-existing conditions
by John C. Goodman
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Most current proposals for dealing with the problems of preexisting conditions would completely divorce health insurance premiums from expected health care costs. Yet a policy of trying to force he...
Georgia Guardsmen home after service in Afghanistan
by Gen. William T. Nesbitt
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After a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, it’s time to welcome back the Georgia National Guard’s 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT). Their mission has been to organize, train and prepare A...
Theater of the Electorate
by Kathleen Parker
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WASHINGTON — For all our bemoaning the tortures of health-care reform, the debate has been healthy for the nation. Everybody’s crazy aunts and uncles have been let out of their respective attics a...
Stop Atlanta’s water grab
by Joe Cook
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From Clayton to Donalsonville, St. Mary’s to Tunnel Hill, voters frustrated over recent proposals to pipe water from across the state to Metro Atlanta are calling on legislators to take action to p...
Love of baseball stretches from Big Apple childhood
by Pierre-René Noth
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FOOTBALL’S GONE for a while, baseball’s fast approaching and the idle time between is being occupied by basketball, invented to plug the gap so sports writers and broadcasters could not be put on f...
PRESIDENT OBAMA took office hoping that constructive diplomacy could yield progress on some of the thorniest foreign-policy challenges facing the United States. Among these was Burma, a Southeast Asian nation of 50 million people that has been misruled into poverty, decline and perpetual warfare by a benighted military dictatorship. Mr. Obama did not abandon economic sanctions against the regime, but he did hold out the prospect of warmer relations if Burma's regime would show some sign of easing up on its people.
Thu Mar 11 23:00:00 -0600 2010
SEVEN HOUSE members, including Northern Virginia Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D), collected more than $840,000 in political contributions from employees and clients of a lobbying firm, Paul Magliocchetti and Associates Group (PMA), during a two-year span. In that same period, the lawmakers, strategically situated on the Appropriations defense subcommittee, directed more than $245 million in earmarks to clients of PMA.
Thu Mar 11 23:00:00 -0600 2010
THE LAST TIME Maryland calculated what parents should reasonably pay in child support was 1988. That's when the price of a stamp was 22 cents, the average cost of a new home was $138,300 and a gallon of gas went for $1.08. It is time Maryland stop shortchanging children and approve a long-needed update of the guidelines governing child support.
Thu Mar 11 23:00:00 -0600 2010
RENÉ PRÉVAL, president of Haiti, has been in Washington discussing how to help his earthquake-ravaged country ahead of a major international donors conference this month. Unsurprisingly, given Haiti's history of wasted and purloined foreign aid, he is being asked about the perils of corruption and what measures the Haitian government might devise to minimize misuse and theft of the billions of dollars in recovery assistance flowing into the country and the billions more expected. Surprisingly, he seems utterly unprepared to discuss the matter.
Wed Mar 10 23:00:00 -0600 2010