Around Town: Did Goldstein best mayor after all? One Sam out, but another Sam in? 05/17/2008
WAS MARIETTA MAYOR Bill Dunaway's deft maneuvering against powerful Councilman Philip Goldstein this week all for naught?
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Ron Goodden/Letter to the Editor: Media bias for Obama obvious 05/17/2008
Springtime brings rain, migratory birds and flowers. And in election years, obsequious journalistic tributes to candidates of the mainstream media's favorite political party.
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Bill O'Reilly: It’s The Sexism, Stupid 05/17/2008
Could it be possible that Democratic voters are discriminating against Sen. Hillary Clinton simply because she's a woman? Is sexism the reason she is losing to Barack Obama? Say it ain't so, Gloria Steinem.
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Editorial: Land buy a reminder of parks bond’s wisdom 05/16/2008
There's never been any question that Cobb voters did the right thing when they voted in 2006 to approve a $40 million bond for the acquisition of future parkland.
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Charles Krauthammer: Israel’s Crime 05/16/2008
Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to see Dr. Benjamin Rush.
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Steve & Cokie Roberts: Media shield law is in pipeline 05/16/2008
On the campaign trail, there is much talk of bipartisanship, but back on Capitol Hill, that spirit has vanished. The latest example: collapse of Senate negotiations to help homeowners threatened with foreclosure.
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Editorial: Board makeover overdue for downtown 05/15/2008
Marietta Mayor Bill Dunaway has locked horns many times with powerful Councilman Philip Goldstein in the past seven years and often as not has come away bloody.
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Tom LaBarge/Letter to the Editor: Katrina cartoons distasteful 05/15/2008
It is not often a cartoon published in a newspaper immediately triggers an urge for me to write the editor. However, your running of the fleur-de-lis cartoon in Sunday's Perspective section did just this.
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George Will: Global Warming ‘Crisis’ 05/15/2008
Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve the housing "crisis" produced this lead paragraph in a recent New York Times story: "Federal agencies are intensifying a criminal investigation of the mortgage industry and focusing on whether some lenders turned a blind eye to inflated income figures provided by borrowers."
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Editorial: Barr a good pick, but odds of victory remote 05/14/2008
Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr of Smyrna made it official on Monday: He's now a candidate for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination.
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