Editorials
Prisoners of state policy
From the Rome News-Tribune, Sept. 2, 2010 — COMPARED TO Georgia as a whole, Floyd Countians dwell in an absolutely enlightened place when it comes to penal policy. Indeed, the state’s taxp...
1 day 7 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Sunlight best disinfectant: Georgia’s Open Records
From the Macon Telegraph, Sept. 1, 2010 — There is an oft believed notion that the Georgia Open Records Act is a tool only for news gathering organizations. Wrong. Every citizen in the state...
1 day 7 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Kingston bill on alcohol for troops makes sense
From the Athens Banner-Herald, Sept. 1, 2010 — It may be that Jack Kingston, who grew up in Athens and now represents coastal and deep South Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives, act...
1 day 15 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Girding for battle in Georgia
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Aug. 31, 2010 — Once upon a time, candidates who had weathered primary races in the spring and summer waited until Labor Day to renew campaigns seeking...
2 days 5 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Enforcing immigration laws a necessary step
From the Brunswick (Ga.) News, Aug. 31, 2010 — With today’s technology, with information at the fingertips of human resource departments and personnel, most might agree that the chance...
2 days 6 hrs ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Nailed it ... sort of
From the Rome News-Tribune, Aug. 31, 2010 — IT’S BECOME so rare to see a politician hit the nail on the head that when Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed struck it a glancing blow that only partly s...
3 days ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Seeds of a revolution
From the Augusta Chronicle, Aug. 27, 2010 - Those scratch marks you see on the threshold of the U.S. Capitol entrance are evidence of senators and congressmen being dragged out kicking and scream...
4 days ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Setting priorities tough when there's no money
From the Macon Telegraph, Aug. 27, 2010 — In its first outing, the GeorgiaForward Forum, a mix of about 250 people from across the state, attempted to identify priorities for a state that is...
4 days ago | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Why country is in peril
5 days ago | 5 5 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Rome News-Tribune, Aug. 29, 2010 -- THIS COUNTRY has a pile of big unresolved problems at present. Deeply troubled economy. War without apparent end. Political gridlock. Illegal immigrati...
Congress should keep flood program going
6 days ago | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Brunswick (Ga.) News, Aug. 25, 2010-- With over one-half of the population of the United States living within 50 miles of water, one would think members of Congress would do everything po...
Gulf story shows importance of nuance
6 days ago | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Athens Banner-Herald, Aug. 27, 2010 -- Earlier this week, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution gave reporters covering the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the medi...
Friday blog
7 days ago | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Can’t study without pizza THE STRONG, SUDDEN population growth in Greater Rome can only help boost business and cash-register activity at local stores, shops, restaurants. Funny how, in a downer o...
Born in the U.S.A.
8 days ago | 3 3 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Rome News-Tribune, Aug. 26, 2010 -- PHIL GINGREY, this region’s representative in Congress, apparently has a lot of free time on his hands due to being unopposed for re-election. He’s bee...
Davis decision: The last word
8 days ago | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Savannah Morning News, Aug. 25, 2010 - Tuesday's decision by U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. on the Troy Anthony Davis case should be the last word on this sore, emotional subjec...
Lukewarm now, but I-3 talk could heat up
8 days ago | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Athens Banner-Herald, Aug. 25, 2010 -- The news this week that a feasibility study for a proposed interstate highway linking Savannah and Knoxville via Augusta and the Northeast Georgia m...
Voter ID check gets green light
9 days ago | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
From the Albany Herald, Aug. 24, 2010 --Whether it was because Georgia’s plan was amended so the U.S. Justice Department finally decided it could sign off on it or a situation in which Justice offi...
JOHN BOYD JR. has had it. Mr. Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, has worked for the past quarter-century to win some semblance of justice for African American farmers, who for decades were denied government loans because of the color of their skin. Yet something goes wrong...
Thu Sep 02 23:00:00 -0500 2010
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency is asking for comments on its proposed new gas mileage stickers for automobiles -- so here's ours. On the whole, both of the agency's two suggested alternative stickers represent much-needed improvement over current fuel-economy labeling. They more clearly and...
Thu Sep 02 23:00:00 -0500 2010
DEL. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is faulted by her opponent in the Sept. 14 primary for not being able to deliver voting rights to the city. This failure, even with solid Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, is why challenger Douglass Sloan thinks that she should be replaced. That...
Thu Sep 02 23:00:00 -0500 2010
ENDANGERED Democrats beseech President Obama to focus on the problems at home. Republicans smelling blood attack him if he talks about anything but the recession. His own aides promise, from time to time, that his mission will consist of "jobs, jobs, jobs."
Wed Sep 01 23:00:00 -0500 2010