About Like I Figured

As this deadline-flirting column gets tucked away, I can see I am going to be flat out of luck when it comes to having a definitive runoff field set for the honor of meeting Democrat Congressman John Barrow for the Georgia
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Yet Another Wife Problem

There is some solace in knowing that someone has a much bigger wife problem than I do. I am referring, of course, to my unwise choice of words in last week’s Spirit column (and thank God the problem has nothing
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Strength Endorsed Peebles Long Ago

There is a bit of irony in this advice coming from a twice-divorced man. Then again, maybe I can speak from a similar perspective: If Sheriff Ronnie Strength’s wife is what is keeping him from openly endorsing Scott Peebles, he
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Time to Crack the Whip on Teens Downtown

gunLet me see if I have all this straight… Six people get shot last Friday night while milling around Broad Street at 11:30, generally up to no good. Cops find the 9mm semiautomatic handgun believed to be used in the
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Oops, I Did It Again!

150px-ObamaCareSymbolby Austin Rhodes Have you noticed there are far more bold editorial columnists than there are bold skydivers?   If last week’s column had been a parachute, I would be splattered all over east Georgia, in pieces too small to
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We Have No More Than We Did Before

As I ponder spending the next 700 words or so discussing the hilarious irony of our most “consitutionally astute” president being as wrong on the constitutionality of his vaunted national healthcare plan as he could possibly be, I will let
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University of Augusta: Odds On Favorite

To hear talk from the Board of Regents, it was not so much a beauty contest as it was about picking the least ugly of the litter. We first broke the story back in late October that ASU and GHSU
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Long Knives Out for Wright McLeod

While it is always good to lead the pack, or at least be in front of most of the competition in any competitive race, one of the perils is that it is incredibly easy for someone behind to bury a
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Break in Cold Case Bums Out Roundtree

It was a tough week for Richmond County Sheriff hopeful Richard Roundtree. The Dem primary candidate had to have been concerned about the declaration by local attorney and self proclaimed “Tax Avenger” Jack Long that he was gonna “cloud up
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Jack Long: The Tax Avenger!

by Austin Rhodes Related Story: The Size of Bowling Balls Someone alert the mayor, the sheriff and, for that matter, the Richmond County school board that their days of pinching pennies and scraping by are a thing of the past.
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