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LETTER: I choose to believe our economy is sound

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Friday, October 3. 2008

Dear Editor: This letter is a little different and is being sent to you because of your access to so much information and people. It’s sort of a question, in part anyway. Do you know people who remember the early TV commercials of the 1950s? Today, I was reminiscing and I remembered the earliest commercials for Winston cigarettes. “Winston ... [Full Story »]

‘We aim to scare’

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Friday, October 3. 2008

Comer gallery steps up the spooking If it goes bump in the night, Tina McCullough likes it. “I love scary movies, vampire moves, a little Anne Rice, some Stephen King,” said McCullough, owner of the Blue Bell Gallery. That’s why for the second year in a row McCullough has asked local artists to fill her gallery with ghostlike, ... [Full Story »]

Keeping motors running

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Friday, October 3. 2008

School system coping with state fuel quandary Despite a state fuel crisis, the Madison County School System expects to have enough diesel to keep its buses running throughout the month. But until the dearth in Georgia ceases, Madison County schools superintendent Dr. Mitch McGhee expects this to be a week-to-week problem. “We were going two ... [Full Story »]

LETTER: Obama is no FDR

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Friday, October 3. 2008

Dear Editor: To address Mr. Weldon Ingram and Miss Susan Kingsolver. First of all, there has never been anyone who can say we went to war for oil that was misleading from the 2004 election. The UN would be screaming bloody murder. The people of Iraq are the only ones getting money. The other is I am 100 percent a disabled Vietnam vet. Also, ... [Full Story »]

State approves study of Transco contaminants

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Thursday, October 2. 2008

State officials have agreed to turn the magnifying glass on the Williams Transco booster station in Comer to see if pollution from the company is affecting Madison County residents. Belan Moran, a spokesperson for the state Division of Public Health, said a study of Transco was scheduled to begin Oct. 1 and is “expected to last four ... [Full Story »]

LETTER: State budget crisis: chickens have come home to roost

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Thursday, October 2. 2008

By Rep. Alan Powell As one of the handful of Georgia legislators who have actually voted and spoken against the fiscally irresponsible annual state budgets of the past several years, I must say the recent reports of a $2 billion hole in the current fiscal year’s budget do not come as a surprise. As the administration scrambles to make its ... [Full Story »]

LETTER: Show compassion for the homeless

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Thursday, October 2. 2008

Dear Editor: We see them every day. We walk around them. We look away from them. We look away from them. Some beat them. Some blame them for being like they are. We call them homeless people. Who are they when they look in the mirror? They are us. Any one of us can become homeless, from the rich to the poor. How does it happen? Some people work ... [Full Story »]

North Carolina man charged with trafficking crystal meth in Madison County

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Thursday, October 2. 2008

Deputies from the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, along with agents from the Piedmont Northern Narcotics Squad, the Athens/Clarke County Drug and Vice Unit and the Drug Enforcement Agency, intercepted a shipment of methamphetamine bound for Madison County, according to the sheriff’s office. Officers apprehended Baldemar Estrada, 21, an ... [Full Story »]

County plans 4-day week at transfer station

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Wednesday, October 1. 2008

County leaders plan to move the Madison County Transfer Station to a four-day week in 2009, an action they say will help keep costs down. After the new year, the transfer station will be open Wednesday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Madison County commissioners met with transfer station director Sandra Webb last week during 2009 county ... [Full Story »]

LETTER: We need a ‘bottom up’ not ‘trickle down’ economy

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Wednesday, October 1. 2008

Dear Editor: Saturday morning, Sept. 27, 2008, during a C-SPAN Washington Journal call-in program, a gentleman from Danielsville asked one of the guests to explain how Obama’s bottom up economy would work. The man asked if the people at the bottom would hire the people at the top. The guest did not answer his question. We all see that the ... [Full Story »]

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