Editorial: Atlanta could avoid budget woes by copying Cobb 05/09/2008
While we suspect everyone would agree that local taxes are too high in Cobb and its cities, and that the county and city governments spend too much money, one cannot help but be encouraged by the contrast in the level of financial responsibility shown by elected officials here in comparison with the budgetary debacle unfolding across the river in the City of Atlanta.
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Charles Krauthammer: Wrong Timing 05/09/2008
By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack Obama, it was too late. When she began the race in 2007 thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center in order to position herself for the real fight, the general election. She simply assumed the party activists and loony left would fall in behind her.
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Steve & Cokie Roberts: Congressional district lines deny democracy 05/09/2008
When Cokie interviewed President Bush a few weeks ago, the talk turned to the issue of immigration. The president has a long history of reaching out to Hispanics and advocating a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, and he's deeply frustrated that his proposals have died on Capitol Hill.
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Editorial: Getting to know ‘O’ — for better and for worse 05/08/2008
What a difference a day makes. Tuesday morning as the North Carolina and Indiana primaries were getting under way Hillary Clinton was riding a wave of momentum following strong primary wins in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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George Will: ‘Too Late’ 05/08/2008
Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a life-long Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home.
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Robert Novak: Barack Obama: Flawed or fantastic? 05/08/2008
Buyer's remorse was beginning to afflict supporters of Barack Obama before Tuesday's primary election returns showed he had delivered a knockout punch against Hillary Clinton.
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Editorial: New term for Olens more than earned 05/07/2008
Incumbent Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens will be running unopposed in his party's primary come July and in the November General Election, seeing as how no one filed during last week's qualifying period to run against him. That means, of course, that he is assured of serving another term.
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Bill Shipp: Cut a Deal ? 05/07/2008
For months now we have been subjected to a steady stream of promises of political change.
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Marsha Mercer: It’s time to cue the panda bear 05/07/2008
A year ago last March, the Republican National Committee had fun sending someone in a "pander bear" suit to crash a Hillary Clinton fundraiser at a Washington hotel. Democrat Clinton, Republicans said, was pandering to voters. Horrors!
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Editorial: ‘Rush to spend’ again fueling school board? 05/06/2008
Did the Cobb County school board and administrators learn anything from the laptop debacle and Carver Governance Model of several years ago? It's an open question.
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