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Georgia Voices: The IRS scandal — Root out the rottenness
The power to tax is the power to destroy. That’s why the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service is so explosive — and so chilling to a healthy democracy. A Treasury Department inspector gen...
May 16, 2013 09:39 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama making Bush look like a model of restraint
To a person, probably, most of Barack Obama’s supporters believed — a belief the candidate encouraged — that, if elected, he would rein in “the worst excesses” of President George W. Bush’s nationa...
May 15, 2013 11:48 PM | 4 4 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama’s IRS — Taking its cues from Cuba, Chavez’s Venezuela
Rare among nations, the United States has a tax code that more or less works. It works because, by and large, taxpayers trust the competency of the agency that administers it, the Internal Revenue ...
May 14, 2013 11:50 PM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marietta wins a pair — City right to push cases
Two protracted lawsuits targeting the city of Marietta finally played to a close in recent days, and the good news is that the city was the winner in both cases. The first case was brought by Walee...
May 11, 2013 11:33 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. might escape a fifth annual jobs slump
For the last four years, the job market has suffered a spring slowdown. But maybe that cycle ended this April with a really solid government report on employment. The jobless rate fell slightly to ...
May 09, 2013 11:55 PM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Local bomb threat a sad sign of times
Call it a sad sign of the times: the fact that the Cobb and Cherokee county courthouses had to be briefly evacuated on Tuesday after a pair of bomb threats were called in. And call it an unmistakab...
May 08, 2013 11:55 PM | 5 5 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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It’s time for Cobb school board, super to call off the dogs
Cobb educators can breathe a little easier — but only a little — in the wake of last week’s decision by the Cobb County School District to dismiss a long string of charges against Awtrey Middle Sch...
May 08, 2013 12:39 AM | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Isakson talk had Cobb hopefuls ... Eyeing Capitol Hill
U.S. SEN. JOHNNY ISAKSON wasn’t auditioning applicants for those wanting to join him next year on Capitol Hill at the Cobb Chamber’s “First Monday Breakfast” on Monday — it only seemed that way.
May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Air Traffic debacle another reminder of Obama’s lack of leadership
President Barack Obama gambled big on sequestration — and based on the evidence so far, he seems to be losing. Obama’s unstated but obvious strategy behind his sequestration ploy came right out of ...
May 05, 2013 12:05 AM | 4 4 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Georgia Voices: Bush’s newfound popularity stems from fact he’s the un-Obama
    by The Savannah Morning News
    05.02.13 - 11:42 pm
  • Bill signed here will help state be smart on crime
    05.01.13 - 11:55 pm
  • Georgia Voices: Boston has reason to applaud
    by The Macon Telegraph
    04.30.13 - 12:30 am
  • Around Town: New Park for Cobb? Mountain ‘Lost’ — but maybe finally found
    04.29.13 - 11:59 pm
  • Georgia Voices: Misfire — Obama’s gun-grab attempt
    by The Augusta Chronicle
    04.29.13 - 09:15 pm
  • Angry air travelers — The latest pressure group
    04.25.13 - 12:00 pm
  • Cobb School Board should restore funding for security cameras
    04.25.13 - 12:00 am
  • Lee, Anderson Theatre did well to land the Lyric
    04.23.13 - 11:56 pm
  • A 2015 BRAC: The Grim Realities
    by The Macon Telegraph
    04.23.13 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: On the Prowl: This and that about bobcats and bees
    by Lee B. Garrett, Joe Kirby & Otis A. Brumby III
    Around Town Columnists
    04.23.13 - 12:00 am
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    Around Town: Hankerson staying: But the question is, for how long?
    Earlier this month, Around Town learned that longtime Cobb County Manager David Hankerson was one of three finalist for the same position in Fulton County. The other two finalist were Dwight Ferre...
    May 17, 2013 11:50 PM | 8 8 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Health reform may be unhealthy for pols
    The Affordable Care Act is getting closer to implementation, less than half a year. But there are a great many questions still lingering. U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), one of the moving forces be...
    May 14, 2013 12:40 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Benghazi: Will we let Obama get away with it?
    Even after explosive congressional testimony on the Benghazi scandal by heroic whistleblowers on Wednesday, the nation is left with a growing list of unanswered questions. Who in the Obama administ...
    May 14, 2013 12:38 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Cobb at Crossroads: And Franklin remake the way to go, Garrett says
    MARIETTA AND COBB will be copying Atlanta’s mistakes if we do not soon begin to reverse the “suburban blight” that is afflicting more and more of our community, local political analyst and civic ac...
    May 14, 2013 12:35 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Lee: Tumlin needs to ‘articulate’ bond vision, but adds ‘I’m all in’
    COBB COMMISSION Chairman Tim Lee is “180 percent” behind Marietta Mayor Steve Tumlin’s proposal to use $35 million in bond proceeds to purchase and bulldoze several decrepit apartment complexes alo...
    May 10, 2013 11:36 PM | 2 2 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    May 10, 2013 11:27 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Obama blurs ‘red line’ in Syria
    Did they or didn’t they? No one seems to know with certainty. The White House said Thursday that U.S. intelligence officials believe that Syria likely has used chemical weapons on a small scale, in...
    May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    If Obamacare is great, why are so many sponsors now ... Trying to Weasel Out
    Some members of Congress who made Obamacare the law of the land want to weasel out on the deal when it comes to themselves and members of their own staff. That’s right. They say it’s unworkable. To...
    May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Mayor says tardy announcement was sending wrong signal
    IT’S (FINALLY) OFFICIAL: Mayor Steve Tumlin is going to run for a second term as mayor in this fall’s city elections. That word comes via the text of his announcement “speech” he shared this week w...
    May 03, 2013 11:37 PM | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Diploma difficulties have Lee, county waiting on Willie
    COBB COMMISSION Chairman Tim Lee announced last month that the county was hiring Pompano Beach assistant city manager Willie Hopkins Jr. to succeed Virgil Moon as the county’s new support services ...
    April 27, 2013 12:00 AM | 5 5 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Bridge a two-state problem
    by The Savannah Morning News
    04.23.13 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Latest sex scandal has sheriff singing another verse of the jailhouse blues
    by Lee B Garrett, Joe Kirby and Otis A. Brumby
    04.20.13 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Mayoral hopeful looking for ... Big Changes
    by Lee B. Garrett, Joe Kirby & Otis A. Brumby III
    Around Town Columnists
    04.16.13 - 01:01 am
  • Obama’s port budget: A National Insult
    by The Savannah Morning News
    04.16.13 - 01:00 am
  • Around Town: Barr, Lindsey, Pridemore (?) and more point toward a Barn-Burner ahead
    by Lee B. Garrett, Joe Kirby & Otis A. Brumby III
    04.13.13 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Economics prof says real estate sector reviving, but ... It’s a Seller’s Market
    by Lee B. Garrett, Joe Kirby & Otis A. Brumby III
    Around Town Columnists
    04.09.13 - 12:29 am
  • Sex Trafficking in Georgia ‘Public Not Buying It’
    by The Augusta Chronicle
    04.02.13 - 12:35 am
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