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A federal climate agency
The last two decades were the warmest on record, and it’s a worthwhile use of the federal government’s resources to try to find out definitively why. Congress is contemplating a climat...
February 09, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: State Revenues
Georgia revenue officials recently reported that they collected nearly $87 million in state sales last month, which was almost 6 percent less than what they collected in December 2008. Here’...
February 08, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Terror Trials
Are we in a war with Islamic extremists? Or is the terror threat posed by such religious fanatics a law-and-order matter best left to the courts? Unfortunately, the Obama administration clearly t...
February 07, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tax Cuts
President Barack Obama’s budget lays the groundwork for some intense battles in and with Congress over taxes and spending that will test the seriousness of the newly proclaimed effort to att...
February 05, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Kennesaw House
IS MARIETTA HISTORY ENOUGH to warrant having its own museum of history? Unquestionably, the answer is yes. Has city hall done everything it can do to ensure that the city’s history mus...
February 04, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Child Prostitution
The City of Atlanta is known for many things: the Braves, the Falcons, the Varsity, its strip clubs, its child prostitutes … There are believed to be hundreds of young girls – and boys...
February 03, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Holden Caulfield lives
Other than several collections of short stories and two novellas, J.D. Salinger only wrote – to be accurate, only published – one complete book, but it was enough to make his death thi...
February 02, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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The budget ... Ticking upward by the trillion
President Barack Obama’s new budget for the federal fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 underscores how difficult it will be, both economically and politically, to climb out of the financial hole...
February 02, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: Ethics Reform - Sanction tax-dodging lawmakers
In the wake of reporting on the overly cozy relationships that have existed between some lobbyists and some lawmakers in the state legislature – reporting that has had any number of legislat...
February 01, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney, Joe Kirby Around Town: Changes coming: Demographic shifts may be reflected in Legislature
COBB COUNTY has had a majority-black legislative district since 2004, and may well have two more following upcoming redistricting, along with a majority-black state Senate district, according ...
February 09, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: Stearing Clear
ONCE BITTEN , TWICE SHY , as the saying goes. Well-placed courthouse sources say the county board of commissioners want to ask voters to continue the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax c...
February 06, 2010 01:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: A Key Figure: Brown part of Cobb's first multi-member commission
COBB COUNTY BURIED a part of its political history on Monday with the death of Tommy Brown, 80. Brown was one of the members of the first-ever multiple-member county commission elected here ...
February 02, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: Face-Saver
ALTHOUGH THE COBB CHAMBER OF COMMERCE is known for its Southern hospitality in allowing local government groups to use its first class facility on Interstate North Parkway in the Galleri...
January 30, 2010 01:00 AM | 4 4 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: This and that ... with a computer handy
SPEAKERS : U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) will be the speaker at the Feb. 1 First Monday Breakfast of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce. … Jason Shepherd, Republican candidate for State Hous...
January 26, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: Taking a Powder
EVERYONE KNOWS PRESIDENT OBAMA can divide a crowd better than the Georgia-Georgia Tech rivalry. The latest example is the centerpiece of his education agenda, a program that seeks to show...
January 23, 2010 01:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: East Side, West Side-West Cobb may grab some of east Cobb’s clout
POLITICOS ARE SPECULATING that largely built-out east Cobb could lose some of its representation to faster-growing northwest Cobb in the wake of the upcoming 2011 redistricting. A look at J...
January 19, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: Trophy Time
THE COBB SCHOOL BOARD has often been criticized for conducting meetings that are light on discussion of academic matters and heavy on the presentation of awards, plaques and other honors. ...
January 16, 2010 01:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: Censure Stalled: Have politics trumped reprimand by school board?
WILL THE COBB SCHOOL BOARD carry out Chairman Dr. John Abraham’s recommendation from last month to censure or reprimand maverick board member Alison Bartlett when it meets Wednesda...
January 12, 2010 01:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Around Town: No Yawner
LOOK FOR SOON -TO- DEPART Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens to name Southwest Cobb Commissioner Woody Thompson as vice chair of that body at its first meeting of the year on Tuesday. Histor...
January 09, 2010 01:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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