Guest editorial IF YOU THOUGHT the Georgia Legislature has too much on its hands to consider clamping down on the public’s right to know, think again. No less that seven bills that mean less op...
The Dallas (Texas) Morning News, 03/09/10 -- We cringed a few weeks ago when we heard Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., briefly call for a boycott of the 2010 census, which she apparently thought wo...
IN THE LONG AGO, Romans raised chickens, pigs, goats in their back yards — even had milk cows next to the outhouse. Honest, we’ve seen the photos. The city banned such activities long ago — but pe...
From the Rome News-Tribune, March 16, 2010 -- As the world turns ... [] IN THE LONG AGO, Romans raised chickens, pigs, goats in their back yards — even had milk cows next to the outhouse. Honest,...
Identifying Civil War sites makes history come alive GEORGIA BATTLEFIELDS Association recently conducted its annual tour of Civil War sites in Georgia, led by Ed Bearss, National Park Service Chief Historian Emeritus and the nation’s premier tou...
Support homegrown athletes THINKING of ways I can help my younger brother Franco be successful as the new head football coach at Rome High School, I turn to my own efforts to connect with our youth. I am in my second yea...
Keep budget axe away from essential services
From the Brunswick Daily News, March 9, 2010 — Georgia legislators said when heading to Atlanta for the 2010 session of the General Assembly that they would not consider essential services w...
Less smoking, more taxes not ‘overly optimistic’ idea Regarding a recent letter, “Proposal to tax tobacco rife with ‘overly optimistic’ data,” the bottom line on cigarette taxes is that raising state cigarette taxes almost always increases state reve...
System that punishes guilty and innocent unfair, wrong I QUESTION the disciplinary actions of Rome Middle School. During class drugs were passed into my daughter’s bag by a student about to get searched. She did not let the boy place the item into h...