Letters
Letter to the editor: Not allowed to comment
Dear Editor, Isn't it ironic that despite the First Amendment to the Constitution reading, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise the...
Mar 28, 2013 | 5 5 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor: More accountability
Dear editor, I was wondering why absolutely not one person in our area is aware of, or seems to catch on to, the fact our area, is amongst the most corrupt in the entire country? You can see the li...
Mar 27, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor: SPLOST will move us forward
Dear editor: We are approaching an election on March 19th that is crucial to the well-being of our county. SPLOST (Special Local Option Sales Tax) is a ($.01 per $1.00) sales tax that is shared by ...
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rights versus reason
Dear editor: This letter is about gun control and “rights versus reason.” When the writers of the Constitution included the phrase “right to keep and bear arms,” the word “arms,” meaning firea...
Dec 27, 2012 | 5 5 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor: Congrats to Music on the Square
Dear editor, Our Walker County’s Best of 2012 votes have been decided. Congratulations to Music on the Square, voted the number one music store. Mark Hise, the owner, apparently wasn’t able to atte...
Dec 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor: Deffenbaugh thanks voters
Dear editor, I want to thank everyone that voted for me for Georgia state representative and assure all the citizens that I will do my best to represent all. We are in a tentative position with the...
Nov 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor: Travelers twice-delighted with Aunt Effie’s
Dear editor, My husband and I recently drove from Florida to my home state of Indiana. We had to have chosen the perfect week, Oct. 17-25. The leaves were in their full array of colors, and I am ce...
Nov 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor: Columnist Reed, all of us should be “students of God’s word”
Dear editor, I bowed my head in prayer before responding to the Oct. 12 column entitled “A faith in perpetual transition” by George B. Reed, Jr. pertaining to the Baptist faith. I am not a Baptist...
Nov 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor: Vitriolic rhetoric hurts, not helps, our country
Nov 17, 2012 | 8 8 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor, In his column “Survivor nation: Can we protect ourselves from Obama and those who elected him?,” Jeff O'Bryant uses blustery, vitriolic rhetoric to prescribe survival of his apocalypti...
Letter to the editor: McMahan congratulates opponent, thanks voters
Nov 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor, Congratulations to John Deffenbaugh, District 1’s newly elected state representative. John is a wonderful man and has been a classy and worthy opponent in this year’s race. I think I c...
Letter to the editor: Bebe more qualified
Nov 10, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor, I did watch Ales Campbell several times represent herself, and in those times I did not hear one thing that qualified her for that position. Our county is so large that it calls for co...
Criminalizing Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis
Nov 09, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor, Regarding George Reed’s Nov. 7 column, the drug war is largely a war on marijuana smokers. In 2010, there were 853,839 marijuana arrests in the U.S., almost 90 percent for simple posse...
Letter to the editor: Starving dogs dropped at Mountain Top Boys Home
Nov 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor, Mountain Top Boys Home has been caring for abused and neglected boys at our current location since 1980. Lately, we have been taking care of a lot of dogs that are being dumped in the ...
Letter to the editor: Walker County planning director corrects misinformation in article
Nov 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor: I am writing this letter in response to the article written by Matt Ledger regarding the rezoning of the property on Chattanooga Valley Road in an effort to both correct some misinform...
Walker County Republican Party encourages support for Republican candidates
Nov 01, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor, We’re at a crossroads for our country. Voters have a choice: to vote for President Barack Obama and continue down a road of unbridled spending, increased borrowing and the persistence ...
Charter school amendment, Sen. Mullis and Gulen-affiliated charter schools
Nov 01, 2012 | 9 9 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Dear editor, Georgia is in the midst of an intense debate over a proposed charter school amendment that will be on the ballot in November. Whatever your position, you need to read my story and ask ...

THE OBAMA administration remains on the defensive over the Justice Department’s decision to seize a wide range of the Associated Press’s phone records without prior notice to the news agency. Media organizations — this one included — denounced the apparent prosecutorial overreach in pursuit of alleged leakers of classified information about a successful CIA anti-terrorism operation. Many Americans who don’t make their living in journalism were justifiably concerned.

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Sat May 18 18:26:58 UTC 2013

FOR THE FIRST TIME in nearly a half- century, a leader of the Southeast Asian nation of Burma will visit the White House on Monday. President Obama’s invitation is a sign of how quickly things have changed inside President Thein Sein’s nation of 50 million or so people and in bilateral relations. The visit should celebrate the progress — and spur further needed change.

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Sat May 18 18:26:23 UTC 2013

ONE OF THE BIGGEST questions hanging over the health-care system is how many young Americans will sign up for coverage once the Affordable Care Act begins to phase in this October. If too few buy insurance on the markets that the government is creating, insurance companies would be stuck covering primarily the the old and the sick. They would have to pay out more per customer. Their customers, in turn, would have to pay more to those companies for coverage. The stakes for the Health and Human Services Department, which is overseeing the transition, are tremendous.

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Sat May 18 18:24:47 UTC 2013