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Georgia Voices: TSPLOST: Drivers needed
Were it not for jawboning by the state and local chambers of commerce, plus quite a few hometown newspapers such as ours, the ballot question on July 31 regarding a special added penny of sales tax...
May 15, 2012 12:00 AM | 6 6 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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A dangerous new wrinkle in underwear bombs
There are undoubtedly details yet to come, but from the facts so far Saudi intelligence and the CIA have pulled off a brilliant intelligence coup. A double agent, presumably a Saudi, pretending to...
May 14, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gay Marriage - Obama’s ‘evolution’ not likely to end debate
President Barack Obama has again endorsed same-sex marriage, a position he held in 1996 and later conveniently abandoned during his campaigns for U.S. Senate and the White House. By 2010 his posit...
May 13, 2012 01:00 AM | 16 16 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Changing Times - Lugar wore out his welcome, lost touch with base
Maybe Sen. Richard Lugar’s successful opponent in the Indiana Republican primary was right Tuesday when he said, “It’s time.” Lugar, 80, was seeking a seventh term. He hadn’t owned a house in Indi...
May 11, 2012 12:01 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remapping: Judge giving politicians a lesson
It’s too bad that the Cobb Commission’s redistricting process has come to this, but so be it. A federal judge might — or might not — issue an elections map for the county with new district lines ba...
May 10, 2012 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bill Maxwell: Time to try and turn black youths away from crime
On April 26, the Tampa Bay Times published a story about black-on-black crime and violence that focused on the Stop the Violence Coalition, a new neighborhood group. In the photo accompanying the ...
May 09, 2012 12:00 AM | 5 5 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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A week for honoring heroes
It’s been a week for honoring heroes in Cobb County. Things got off to a somber start on Friday at Kennesaw State University, where a memorial service was held on the campus green in honor of late ...
May 09, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: Why is union fighting for bounty hunters?
At least one former pro football player, Chicago’s Dave Duerson, seemed to think his brain would be useful to science. So he took care to shoot himself in the chest. Former San Diego great Junior ...
May 08, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: Good Dawg: Departing president has earned his ‘parachute
At one time, University of Georgia President Michael Adams wasn’t just the biggest man on the Athens campus. He also was the most loathed. That was back in 2004 when he forced then-Athletic Direct...
May 08, 2012 12:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Congress should stop taxing dead soldiers’ debts
    05.07.12 - 12:00 am
  • ‘New’ Hickory Hills Park was ... worth waiting for
    05.06.12 - 12:01 am
  • No More for Newt - But Gingrich helped shape race against Obama
    05.03.12 - 12:01 am
  • Killing bin Laden - and hogging the credit
    05.02.12 - 12:01 am
  • Georgia Voices: Guess who says welfare system failing?
    05.01.12 - 12:00 am
  • Georgia Voices: Tybee Trash
    05.01.12 - 12:00 am
  • Job market starting to show faint signs of life
    04.30.12 - 12:00 am
  • F-22 program’s demise begs question: Will we ever learn
    04.29.12 - 12:00 am
  • Gaming machines: Legalize them or enforce the law
    04.27.12 - 12:00 am
  • Cobb EMC back on right track
    04.26.12 - 12:00 am
    • TIA being politically gamed
    About five weeks ago, the Cobb County Department of Transportation placed a so-called “white paper” regarding magnetic levitation transit on its website. No big deal, right? Well yes it was. Three ...
    May 16, 2012 04:31 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Shovel Ready: MHS to break ground for auditorium on Thursday
    IT’S BEEN A SCANT TWO MONTHS since Marietta voters approved a $7 million bond issue to help fund a new auditorium at Marietta High School, but school system officials aren’t wasting any time. Groun...
    May 15, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney, Joe Kirby
    Open Records forum found Olens back in his ... Old Stomping Grounds
    STATE Attorney General Sam Olens was back in his old Marietta stomping grounds on Thursday, and with a roomful of local notables hanging on his every word. Olens played a key role in this year’s ...
    May 12, 2012 01:37 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Cobb Webb: Readers sound off on ‘epithet,’ underage sales
    EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is a selection of the responses from readers of MDJOnline.com in reaction to recent MDJ stories. Marietta school board wrestles with racial ‘epithet’ — “Negro” — on historic...
    May 09, 2012 11:59 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Demo Delegates; six from Cobb headed to party’s presidential convention
    SIX COBB RESIDENTS have been chosen as delegates to the upcoming 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte Sept. 4 to 6, at which President Barack Obama is expected to be renominated. Accor...
    May 08, 2012 12:00 AM | 7 7 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: ... Vote switcheroo could help Harrison — and resurrect Teach for America
    IS COBB SCHOOL BOARD vice Chairman David Morgan planning to switch his vote yet again and vote at Wednesday’s work session to support construction of the Harrison High School ninth-grade center, in...
    May 05, 2012 12:00 AM | 10 10 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: For one night at least, Cobb again to be center of the Republican universe
    COBB HAS OFTEN been called “the center of the Republican universe” — or at least the part of that universe that includes Georgia. And that will certainly be true on the evening of June 11. That’s ...
    May 01, 2012 12:00 AM | 12 12 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Candidates for D.A., Clerk drawing the donations
    THE RACE to be Cobb’s next district attorney is shaping up as a one-sided contest, if campaign contributions are any indication. Former Cobb Chief Magistrate Vic Reynolds, now one of the county’s m...
    April 28, 2012 12:00 AM | 8 8 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: End of an Era - Final F-22 to fly off next week
    THE F-22 ERA at Marietta’s Lockheed Martin plant will officially draw to a close next week with the delivery May 2 of the final copy of the Raptor stealth fighter. The 195th and final Raptor (wit...
    April 24, 2012 12:01 AM | 7 7 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Clay said to be eyeing race for county commission chairman
    ONE OF COBB’S most seasoned political leaders might be the newest name to plunge into the pool of candidates to be the next chairman of the Cobb Board of Commissioners. Marietta attorney Chuck Cla...
    April 21, 2012 12:00 AM | 6 6 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Around Town: This & that ... with a computer handy
    04.17.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Mariettans getting kick from remembering the ... locomotive chase
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    04.15.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: War of Words; Race for county chairman starting to heat up
    04.10.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Lee the winner ... Maybe not in votes, but definitely in contributions
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    04.07.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Krystal Kaput; Landmark city eatery closes doors for good
    04.03.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Best parts of Tumlin’s ‘State’ speech were on the cuff
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    03.30.12 - 09:40 pm
  • Around Town: This and that with a computer handy
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    03.27.12 - 12:01 am
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