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Mothers make for good shopping buddies

Attention, Newton County mothers and your adult daughters: When you're out and about shopping, picking out spring plants for your garden, or maybe enjoying lunch and a little family gossip, do not be alarmed if you notice me lurking about. I have neither sinister nor larcenous intent.

May 11, 2013 | Jan Phillips | OPINION


The joys of a garden

Spring is here, and after we sailed past Good Friday and the risk of frost, it is now planting time! I've bought seeds and pots and I'm ready to plant something.

March 30, 2013 | Staff Report | OPINION


Brown: Firearms ordinance about safety

During the last county commissioner's retreat, I submitted a proposal regarding the discharge of firearms in high-density areas. After careful research, we asked the county to allow us to return to the guidelines established prior to the 2006 version of the county ordinance governing this matter.

March 23, 2013 | Ezell Brown Sheriff | OPINION


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The dangers of voting for poverty

Elections must be getting close again. I see ads on TV promising smaller government, control of run away spending, cutting taxes, all of which means fewer government services. All of which will have a disproportionate impact on the poor. All in the name of promoting business growth.

July 09, 2010 | Patrick Durusau | OPINION


A new game for long summer drives

Do you remember all the games we played on long car trips, back when we were kids? Did you play the alphabet game, where you looked for words on road signs? "A - Atlanta! B - Bathrooms!" Or maybe you played the license plate game. "I see one from Michigan!" Games are great when you're a kid. But, a good car game can make the trip go a lot faster for the ...

July 09, 2010 | David McCoy | OPINION


The art of Southern cooking

The food scene is always on the lookout for the next best thing, the next big idea, giving rise and fall to a stunning number of restaurants that go into, then quickly out of, business in places like Atlanta. Current and coming trends are grass-fed beef, organic pork, gluten-free and restaurants with their own kitchen garden. It was TV host, author and lecturer Nathalie Dupree - almost one of us since she owned a restaurant at ...

July 02, 2010 | Barbara Morgan Columnist | OPINION


The ones called ‘Daddy’

Gripped in the heat of a typical Georgia summer, Father's Day nevertheless allows us to honor those most hallowed in our patriarchal society - our fathers. Yes, America's still a man's world. Women's advocates and bleeding heart liberals can protest all they want. But when push comes to shove, America wants John Wayne in the foxhole - and in the White House! Our annual observance ...

June 19, 2010 | Nat Harwell | OPINION


Only informed voters, please

I favor low voter turnout. Every election year there is collective self-flagellation about low voter turn-out, especially during primary season in a non-presidential year. Let's look at some percentages for those eligible to vote in the past three elections. In 2008, 61.7 percent of eligible voters showed up at the polls. In Georgia that number was 61.5 percent. In 2004, the previous presidential election, the figure for the U.S. ...

June 19, 2010 | Bob Furnad Guest Columnist | OPINION


Global warming, marriage cooling

Oh, Al. Oh, Tipper. Why? Why? Why? Why'd you go and split up after 40 years? You're an institution! You're a couple held up to us as a forever-in-love, forever-meant-to-be pair. You created that image for us, and we bought it. Tipper, those adoring blue eyes just above that turned up tip of a nose were always cast upward at your handsome husband, and you seemed to really mean it. Al, that ...

June 04, 2010 | Barbara Morgan Columnist | OPINION


Victory gardens bring conflicts home

I ran across an article about the "victory" gardens during both World War I and World War II. With contaminated food from distant sources and the benefits of local agriculture, I thought about urging everyone to have a "victory" garden, whether large or small.

June 04, 2010 | Patrick Durusau | OPINION


Trust in people v. government control

A friend mentioned in conversation yesterday that his new employment situation is not working out quite as expected. He had left a secure job and moved to a small business, but the new venture was not proceeding as planned. As a way to change the course of the business, my friend has proposed a few ideas and options to the business owner. He is waiting to see what will happen.

May 30, 2010 | Jackie Gingrich Cushman | OPINION


The ultimate sacrifice

A couple of months ago a guy named Roger Nixon dropped by the house. My wife's dog let me know an unfamiliar pickup was in the driveway, so I ambled out to see who it was. Roger was taken aback, as the balding, fat guy holding the coffee cup in no way resembled the man he'd come to see.

May 30, 2010 | Nat Harwell | OPINION


Georgia doesn’t need term limits

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone propose term limits as the solution for every political problem that faces us, I could have retired long ago to that cabin in the North Georgia mountains.

May 26, 2010 | Tom Crawford | OPINION


Georgia’s education wasteland

Kathy Cox has resigned as State School Superintendent to take a new job in Washington. I have no way of knowing who will win the job this fall, but I do know that what public education lacks more than dollars is a strong and effective advocate. No one - not Cox, not the State Board of Education, not the Georgia School Board Association, not the Georgia Association of Educators and the Professional ...

May 19, 2010 | Dick Yarbrough | OPINION


Not cut out for black leather pants

When I told my wife that I was writing a column about something I'd never own, she gave me that line about never saying never. So, I explained that I was talking about a pair of black leather pants. She stopped eating, looked across the table, and said, "OK. You've got a good point." She remembers my black-leather-pants period, and she knows it's a sore subject. I'm never going to own a ...

May 07, 2010 | David McCoy | OPINION


The tracks behind my house

When I was a kid, the fence that separated the black section of the Covington City Cemetery from the white section was directly behind my house. In the 1970s the city paved a new road from the end of the black section, and connected it to where the white folks are buried. That created a great deal of new foot traffic, and a little automobile traffic, that had never existed before, directly ...

May 07, 2010 | Andy Irwin Guest Columnist | OPINION


Jimmy’s timing a bit suspicious

I don't give a flip whether Jason Carter is elected to the Georgia state senate or not. He won't represent me because I don't live in Georgia's 42nd district. What I do care about is that his grandfather, Jimmy Carter, is at it again.

May 05, 2010 | Dick Yarbrough | OPINION


Some good people are leaving office

Before we get caught up in the drama of the primary election campaigns, we should stop and take note that some good people will be leaving their current elected offices after this year.

May 05, 2010 | Tom Crawford | OPINION


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