LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Postal food drive gathered 12 tons
by SAM UDELL, Rome
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THE CITY and rural letter carriers want to thank the Greater Rome community for all the donations of canned goods and other non-perishable food items for this year’s Postal Food Drive, which was he...
Things looking up
by the Rome News-Tribune
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MOUNT BERRY Square Mall is listed as being for sale — again. And that, along with a lot of other stray bits and pieces of local “economic news” can actually be taken as a positive sign. This is h...
GUEST EDITORIAL: Hard tax reform choices
by the Los Angeles (Calif.) Times
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REPUBLICANS and Democrats agree that the federal tax system is broken, but they couldn’t disagree more strongly about how to fix it. That’s true largely because each side clings to a different set ...
EDITORIAL: Does this make sense?
by the Rome News-Tribune
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FORTUNATELY for elected officials hoping to stay in office most Georgians pay little attention to what the politicians actually do, perhaps because nobody can make much sense of it any longer. For...
FRIDAY BLOG: Where $1 can be worth $2
by the Rome News-Tribune
5 days ago | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
THE GOVERNMENT HAND is faster than the taxpayer eye as it rolls their dollars, definitely not pea-sized, from beneath one shell to another. Starting July 1, by General Assembly decree, the state i...
Mike Lester's cartoon
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By Mike Lester, Washington Post Writers Group
Mike Lester's cartoon
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By Mike Lester, Washington Post Writers Group
Mike Lester's cartoon
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By Mike Lester, Washington Post Writers Group
Clay Bennett's cartoon
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By Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Clay Bennett's cartoon
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By Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t miss chance to hear Rome-made cannon boom
by JOHN CARRUTH, Rome
2 hrs 53 mins ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
AN EXCITING historic event will take place on Thursday, May 17 at Rome’s Civic center. A cannon that was manufactured in Rome in 1862 will be giving authentic firing demonstrations during the day. ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Kicking can down the road won’t help county finances
by OLD BILLY BRYCE CAMPBELL, Rome
2 days 2 hrs ago | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
WELL THE WEATHER has warmed up and I am no longer spending as much time in my old easy chair. My son came out the other evening and we pulled my nice “swang” out of winter storage and attached it t...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Be careful while driving out there
by TINA DEATON, Rome
4 days ago | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
WHAT HAS THIS country come to? We live in a society that requires you to have insurance to drive a vehicle, but if you have a wreck and it is your fault, the law says you can dispute that ticket a...
FRIDAY BLOG: State talks talk, fails to walk
by the Rome News-Tribune
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FOR A STATE THAT BLATHERS ON ceaselessly about the need to educate the workforce and recoup from a high dropout rate it sure has strange ways to solve the problem. As most know, and many have reas...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Shorter stands on the fundamentals
by GINGER PARKER, Rome
5 days ago | 13 13 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
FUNDAMENTAL, according to Webster, means “serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function.” Music, science, math, etc., all have fundamentals. Only when we c...
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