SAT blog 08/27/2008
SAT scores for Cobb and Marietta are down again for a second straight year, according to figures released on Tuesday. To what do you attribute that? What would you do to correct it? And does that news make you more or less likely to support the upcoming SPLOST referendum?
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Grading Blog 08/22/2008
Just weeks after announcing the county system will remain for another year on the dreaded Needs Improvement list under No Child Left Behind, and with the vote on the SPLOST III referendum less than a month away, the county school system has set off a new wave of controversy by changing the way its youngest students are graded.
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Cuthbertson blog 08/20/2008
Councilman Philip Goldstein, owner of the old Cuthbertson Building on the north side of Marietta Square, is hoping to get his demolition permit renewed for another three years for that building. The Historic Board of Review of the Downtown Marietta Development Authority tabled his request on Monday, partly because it was submitted only at the very last minute and partly over concerns about what he has planned.
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Shower blog 08/13/2008
Swimming and diving are longtime Olympic events. But a new "wet event" seems to have been added this year - showering.
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Flag Pin Blog 08/07/2008
Do you think too much of a fuss has been made about Obama's decisions on whether or not to wear a U.S. flag label pin? His belabored explanations for his decisions to wear one, and to not wear one, have been magnified out of all proportion in the eyes of many observers, and not just those on the left.
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Bynum Blog 08/07/2008
Embattled North Cobb High School principal Dr. Lawrence Bynum now has been placed on paid administrative leave after new information surfaced about his performance as principal at Floyd Middle School. School HQ is mum on details, but the new details are believed to involve a new sexual harassment complaint filed against him last week with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Presidential Visit Blog 07/24/2008
U.S. presidents have been "dropping in" at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta for almost as long as there's been a base there, or at least it seems that way. The base is convenient to Atlanta and obviously is much easier to secure than Hartsfield-Jackson-Atlanta Airport. Among the chief executives who've dropped by through the years en route elsewhere have been Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George Bush I, Bill Clinton and George Bush II.
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Patriotism 07/02/2008
The definition of patriotism used to be pretty simple: Love of country and the willingness to put its needs ahead of your own, such as putting your life on the line to defend it in time of war.
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Execution blog 06/26/2008
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana law that allows rapists to be executed if their victims are children. Even Barack Obama disagrees with the decision.
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Drilling blog 06/20/2008
Gas prices have crept past the $4 a gallon mark at many pumps in Marietta and Cobb County, with no guarantees they won't soon be higher. With the likelihood strong that prices might be $5 a gallon by Christmas - or even Labor Day - do you think it's time to take the handcuffs off the oil industry that have prevented it from tapping into the huge known reserves in our country? There are billions of gallons just offshore and billions more in a tiny corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska.
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