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Where is Ronald Reagan when we need him?
by Dick Yarbrough
MDJ Columnist
February 08, 2010 03:06 PM | 2 2 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Call me old-fashioned but if Ronald Reagan were still around I doubt we would be fretting over Iran and their nuclear weapons or worrying about the civil rights of terrorists. We would be sleeping ...
Shedding no tears over loss of graduation coaches
by Laura Armstrong
MDJ Columnist
February 08, 2010 03:03 PM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The end has come for Georgia’s High School Graduation Coach initiative, introduced by Governor Sonny back in 2006. It’s another victim of the economy, but I’m not shedding any tears about it. You ...
Of Tellus, and teeth
by Kim Isaza
MDJ News Editor
February 08, 2010 11:18 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
I finally ventured up to the Tellus Science Museum this weekend, and it was a good time. The property is huge and has all kinds of things to see, inside and out. My son, who's almost 6, loved the l...
Perdue proposal to appoint state department heads strikes sour note
by Don McKee
MDJ Columnist
February 08, 2010 03:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
What about this for a case of really bad timing? Gov. Sonny Perdue is proposing that future governors appoint four state department heads now elected by the people. Under his plan, Georgia’s commi...
Which football job is better Lassiter or Marietta?
by John Bednarowski
MDJ Sports Editor
February 03, 2010 03:43 PM | 7 7 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
With the surprising announcement that Lassiter football coach Chip Lindsey would be leaving the school to take the quarterbacks coach position at Troy University, we now have two coaching openings ...
If you could pick a site for a sinkhole, where would it be?
by Joe Kirby
Editorial Page Editor
February 02, 2010 10:11 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
A sinkhole opened up in west Marietta last week, apparently a relic of that area’s long-forgotten past as a site for pyrite mining. No one was hurt in the collapse of the old mine shaft in the Char...
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