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Lost Mountain beauty preserved, thanks to a happy twist of fate
IN WHAT can best be described as a superb turn of events, much of scenic Lost Mountain, which dominates the horizon looking west from Marietta, will soon become a park. And it’s a development that ...
May 22, 2013 11:50 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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What we’re seeing is ‘the new normal’
The consensus has been that the economy will continue to recover slowly but steadily unless the president and/or Congress do something stupid, which is always a possibility, to mess it up. But surv...
May 18, 2013 11:33 PM | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: The IRS scandal — Root out the rottenness
The power to tax is the power to destroy. That’s why the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service is so explosive — and so chilling to a healthy democracy. A Treasury Department inspector gen...
May 16, 2013 09:39 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama making Bush look like a model of restraint
To a person, probably, most of Barack Obama’s supporters believed — a belief the candidate encouraged — that, if elected, he would rein in “the worst excesses” of President George W. Bush’s nationa...
May 15, 2013 11:48 PM | 4 4 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama’s IRS — Taking its cues from Cuba, Chavez’s Venezuela
Rare among nations, the United States has a tax code that more or less works. It works because, by and large, taxpayers trust the competency of the agency that administers it, the Internal Revenue ...
May 14, 2013 11:50 PM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marietta wins a pair — City right to push cases
Two protracted lawsuits targeting the city of Marietta finally played to a close in recent days, and the good news is that the city was the winner in both cases. The first case was brought by Walee...
May 11, 2013 11:33 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. might escape a fifth annual jobs slump
For the last four years, the job market has suffered a spring slowdown. But maybe that cycle ended this April with a really solid government report on employment. The jobless rate fell slightly to ...
May 09, 2013 11:55 PM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Local bomb threat a sad sign of times
Call it a sad sign of the times: the fact that the Cobb and Cherokee county courthouses had to be briefly evacuated on Tuesday after a pair of bomb threats were called in. And call it an unmistakab...
May 08, 2013 11:55 PM | 5 5 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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It’s time for Cobb school board, super to call off the dogs
Cobb educators can breathe a little easier — but only a little — in the wake of last week’s decision by the Cobb County School District to dismiss a long string of charges against Awtrey Middle Sch...
May 08, 2013 12:39 AM | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Isakson talk had Cobb hopefuls ... Eyeing Capitol Hill
    by Lee B. Garrett, Joe Kirby and Otis A. Brumby III - Around Town Columnists
    05.07.13 - 12:00 am
  • Air Traffic debacle another reminder of Obama’s lack of leadership
    05.05.13 - 12:05 am
  • Georgia Voices: Bush’s newfound popularity stems from fact he’s the un-Obama
    by The Savannah Morning News
    05.02.13 - 11:42 pm
  • Bill signed here will help state be smart on crime
    05.01.13 - 11:55 pm
  • Georgia Voices: Boston has reason to applaud
    by The Macon Telegraph
    04.30.13 - 12:30 am
  • Around Town: New Park for Cobb? Mountain ‘Lost’ — but maybe finally found
    04.29.13 - 11:59 pm
  • Georgia Voices: Misfire — Obama’s gun-grab attempt
    by The Augusta Chronicle
    04.29.13 - 09:15 pm
  • Angry air travelers — The latest pressure group
    04.25.13 - 12:00 pm
  • Cobb School Board should restore funding for security cameras
    04.25.13 - 12:00 am
  • Lee, Anderson Theatre did well to land the Lyric
    04.23.13 - 11:56 pm
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    Around Town: Cobb School Superintendent: Deep austerity cuts by state are ... ‘The New Normal’
    BUDGET-DRIVEN staff and spending cuts have become a way of life in the Cobb school system in recent years — and we might as well get used to them, Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa warned members...
    May 21, 2013 12:00 AM | 7 7 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Scandal Time ... but will the media have any interest?
    If it weren’t so serious, it would be comical to watch the media try to spin the Obama administration scandals the president’s way. When White House spokesman Jay Carney continued Friday to cling d...
    May 20, 2013 08:47 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Good reason for right to be paranoid
    Sometimes people who are dismissed as being paranoid have good reason to be paranoid. Case in point: The admission last week by the chief of the Internal Revenue Service that the agency targeted co...
    May 20, 2013 08:46 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Hankerson staying: But the question is, for how long?
    Earlier this month, Around Town learned that longtime Cobb County Manager David Hankerson was one of three finalist for the same position in Fulton County. The other two finalist were Dwight Ferre...
    May 17, 2013 11:50 PM | 9 9 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Health reform may be unhealthy for pols
    The Affordable Care Act is getting closer to implementation, less than half a year. But there are a great many questions still lingering. U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), one of the moving forces be...
    May 14, 2013 12:40 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Benghazi: Will we let Obama get away with it?
    Even after explosive congressional testimony on the Benghazi scandal by heroic whistleblowers on Wednesday, the nation is left with a growing list of unanswered questions. Who in the Obama administ...
    May 14, 2013 12:38 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Cobb at Crossroads: And Franklin remake the way to go, Garrett says
    MARIETTA AND COBB will be copying Atlanta’s mistakes if we do not soon begin to reverse the “suburban blight” that is afflicting more and more of our community, local political analyst and civic ac...
    May 14, 2013 12:35 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Lee: Tumlin needs to ‘articulate’ bond vision, but adds ‘I’m all in’
    COBB COMMISSION Chairman Tim Lee is “180 percent” behind Marietta Mayor Steve Tumlin’s proposal to use $35 million in bond proceeds to purchase and bulldoze several decrepit apartment complexes alo...
    May 10, 2013 11:36 PM | 2 2 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    May 10, 2013 11:27 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    If Obamacare is great, why are so many sponsors now ... Trying to Weasel Out
    Some members of Congress who made Obamacare the law of the land want to weasel out on the deal when it comes to themselves and members of their own staff. That’s right. They say it’s unworkable. To...
    May 07, 2013 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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