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Many made scholarship walk-a-thon successful
Editor, Webster's defines success as the satisfactory completion of something. The board of directors of Seven Ministries of Liberty County Inc. defines that successful something as the community coming together to support the third annual Jackie Gilliard-Henderson Memorial Scholarship Walk-a-Thon - and what a success it was.
It's time to clear VA claim backlog
Sixty-nine years ago last Thursday, Allied forces stormed the heavily fortified beaches of Normandy. Through their courage and sacrifice, they cut a foothold in Northern France and began a march that culminated in victory.
Charter-school commission in good hands
I have said it before, but let me repeat: I have no problem with charter schools. I did have a big problem with the ham-handed way last November's charter-school referendum was rammed through by proponents.
Help seniors know of identity theft
Identity theft continues to be a real problem in the United States - and our senior population is at extreme risk.
Politicians needed to adress issues
Boy, some politicians are thin-skinned. If a politician does not want to be held to a high standard, he or she shouldn't run for office. Mayor Pro-Tem Curtes Roberts and Councilman Levern Clancey Jr. got their feathers all ruffled because I took them to task for walking out of a city council meeting rather than doing their duty. Oh well, I guess they wrote their letters to the editor to make a good impression with ...
It's Win-dex Awards time again
Creating an attractive Liberty County is good for all of us who live here. Attractive, clean communities attract businesses and new people who might want to live there. And they are healthier places. It is, once again, time to recognize our local businesses that make extra efforts to make our community an engaging place to live, work and, most fun of all, shop. Keep Liberty Beautiful and the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce recognize two ...
Jekyll ploy jeopardizes marshes
Georgia's citizens have been kept in the dark regarding two troubling occurrences related to the ongoing update of the Jekyll Island State Park Master Plan:
Public eying more government surveillance
What was thought by many, especially on the left, to be domestic overreach by the George W. Bush administration in the name of national security now appears to be standard practice under the Obama administration.
Diary details Lincoln assassination
Charlie Tinker, according to his diary, was feeling poorly on the morning of April 15, 1865. He had left the office April 12 and gone home to bed. A doctor visited and said he must stay in bed since he had an intermittent fever.
Sticking up for what is right
I'm a bit old-fashioned when it comes to values. Now, mind you, I'm not talking about politics here; I try to steer clear of hot-button issues when it comes to this column. However, I could see how the two could become easily confused or even intertwined.
IRS scandal should be rallying cry for tax reform
The more we learn about the Internal Revenue Service targeting groups based on their ideologies, the more chilling the case becomes.
Tough to be proud of changing nation
Recently, I have been thinking quite a bit about my late father, John Riddle. It has been almost 33 years since he died, and I honestly can say it is rare for me to go a day without thinking about him. I was 17 when he tragically was taken away from my family because of an accidental gunshot wound. I'm sharing the cause of his death for two reasons: One, I want ...
No one can question the wisdom of ‘Answer Man’
Well, boys and girls, I see by the old clock on the wall that it is June already. We know what that means. It is time for Answer Man to dig into the question box and see what is on your hearts and minds and assorted body parts.
Community newspapers tell our story
Most community newspapers are small, although there are two or three larger ones that contain pictures of my show calves and me. All of them are slightly yellowed and somewhat worn by the weight of many years.
Waiting for atheists to create sunset or duck-billed platypus
Dear God: I apologize for contacting you in such a public manner, but there is an issue here in Georgia I need to discuss with You, pronto. I thought about bringing it up in my prayers but, frankly, I have so many sins to apologize for that my knees likely would give out before I ever got to this matter. I don't claim to be a theologian, but I know in my heart that You ...
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Journey to Midwest a little messy
As it turns out, all my worrying last week about how my toddler would deal with a flight from Georgia to Missouri definitely was not for nothing. In fact, probably the only thing that would have made the journey worse would've been a plane crash. And, sadly, it was my own meticulous planning that did me in.
Slope from triumph to tragedy is slippery
When Peggy Sue went away, just fell off the face of the Earth with no warning or even a holler, we all wondered where she had gone.
Time has come for congressional intervention
The American public has lost patience with Washington. The question is, now what?
State parks can use all the help they can get
A letter to Georgia's citizens: An estimated 26,000 visitors participated in dozens of events and service projects at Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites on Saturday, Sept. 28. The occasion was "Your State Parks Day," a celebration of National Public Lands Day hosted by Friends of Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites. Our Friends organization sponsored service projects with approximately 3,000 volunteers and underwrote the cost of parking at state parks and admission to state ...
You can let us be your newspaper
After more than 53 years in the newspaper business. I have learned that there are three guaranteed ways to avoid criticism. First, you can say nothing. Second, you can do nothing. And third, you can be nothing.
What's wrong with our schools?
Editor, What's wrong with our education system, our educators?
State DDS doesn't want you standing in line 3 hours
After a friend told me she recently waited three and a half hours to get her Georgia driver's license renewed and then had to deal with a clerk who could have passed for a robot - and an unhelpful one, at that - I thought this to be a typical example of a bunch of government bureaucrats who don't care because they don't have to.
Up for toddler travels?
I apparently did not learn my lesson two weeks ago with the debacle in involving an explosion of Gerber puffed-wheat snacks in church.
Language has been dragged into gutter
Recently, I was in a bookstore with a friend. We stopped at a table near the front of the store and it was loaded with different books that had such obscene titles that many of the words were expressed as @?*#.
Rivers Alive is one way to make community better
Life is so hectic, and it seems to go by so fast the older I get.
Charges against senator feed negative perception
Despite the rants of publicity-seeking bigots, the blather of Twitter twits and a national news media more interested in scooping the competition than in accurate reporting, the fact is that our American system of justice presumes one is innocent until proven guilty.
No place for Obamacare right now
The American people are rejecting Obamacare by wide margins. Recent polls in Georgia suggest that more than 57 percent of respondents have an unfavorable view of Obamacare and only 31 percent have a favorable view.
Is our government really dysfunctional
Voters and federal workers are by now getting tired of all these cat-and-mouse games the two political parties in Congress are playing with their livelihoods and with the nation's economy. That includes the government shutdown because of the failure of Republicans and Democrats in the two chambers to find a compromise. Each has an objective and neither minds inflicting suffering on others to try to get its way.
What Congress should do with NSA
Washington is beginning to debate the proper extent of government eavesdropping powers in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA. It's hardly as robust a discussion as it should be, but it's a desperately needed start.
Litter costs you even if you don't realize it
I don't understand the mindset of someone who litters. What are they thinking?
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