Bill Shipp: Is Mack Back? 07/02/2008
Could Vernon Jones be the next Mack Mattingly? Remember 1980?
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Phil Gailey: When idealism meets ambition, idealism is the loser 07/02/2008
Barack Obama and John McCain led voters to believe they would rise above the old politics and offer something new. The way things are going, their general election campaign is shaping up as politics as usual, which suggests it's going to be business as usual in Washington regardless of which candidate makes it to the White House.
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Editorial: Georgia can’t afford to let pre-K slippage continue 07/01/2008
Once upon a time, Georgia was a national leader in early-childhood education. Not any more.
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Around Town: Parks bond vote now seen likely; Clay honored guest in Berlin 07/01/2008
A FOLLOW-UP COBB PARKS REFERENDUM is looking more and more like a sure thing to go on the November General Election ballot.
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Editorial: Gun-law ruling reminder of what’s at stake this fall 06/30/2008
Law schools looking to get their graduates into growth fields should consider adding courses in gun law.
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Dick Yarbrough: Want to join the Senate debate on energy? Here’s Your Chance 06/30/2008
I was deep in thought on my back porch at Big Canoe in the North Georgia mountains when the phone rang. It was Sen. Saxby Chambliss calling from Washington. He sounded as if he had been rode hard and put away wet.
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Pete Borden: Recycling Center flap highlights City Hall’s hypocrisy 06/30/2008
The Marietta Recycling Center debacle accents, once more, the duplicity and hypocrisy which is rampant in the government of the City of Marietta and, in this case, Mayor Bill Dunaway.
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Editorial: New courthouse would echo old — a good thing 06/29/2008
Cobb County's much-lamented Victorian-era courthouse is gone forever, or "gone with the wind," as folks in Georgia sometimes say.
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Bill Kinney: Learning For Life 06/29/2008
We all know about the Boy Scouts of America. But did you know that organization now has branched out into a parallel program for youths, both male and female, that helps prepare them for the working world and gives them a taste of what that world is like?
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Nelson Price: War is hell, but you can help reduce hell on earth 06/29/2008
General William T. Sherman is but one of several persons credited with saying, "War is hell."
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