MDJ editorials
Unemployment: Jobless rate finally falling: Keep fingers crossed
If there is such an animal as an economic report of unalloyed good news, the January unemployment report was as close as it gets, especially seen in the context of the recession and the tremendous ...
February 06, 2012 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Afghanistan - With no commitment to win, no reason to stay
President Barack Obama’s military advisers plan on the U.S. and its NATO allies ending combat operations in Afghanistan perhaps as soon as mid-2013, a year and a half early. That lays the groundwor...
February 05, 2012 12:01 AM | 2 2 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Louie Hunter: Legislature should update ‘GON’ law
Poll any Georgian today and they’ll tell you: money is tight. As the U.S. enters its fourth year of economic turmoil, it seems everyone is strapped for cash. Government is no exception. The federa...
February 03, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Race: Past month has strengthened Romney’s appeal
Mitt Romney is back on track in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination. His clear-cut victory in Tuesday’s Florida Primary was evidence of a candidate who is sharpening his message an...
February 03, 2012 12:00 AM | 7 7 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Teach For America - School board should let chips fall where may
SOME THINGS NEVER SEEM TO CHANGE at the Glover Street headquarters of the Cobb School District. For now, we’ll cite just two: school board members that reach decisions privately, rather than in pub...
February 02, 2012 12:01 AM | 25 25 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Neighborhood stabilization program offers a helpful step
Cobb, like most other communities these days, has no shortage of empty, abandoned houses. And as we all know by now, such a house can act like a cancer in even the nicest of neighborhoods. And as f...
February 01, 2012 12:46 AM | 2 2 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: Ethics reform - It’s time for Legislature to ‘get religion'
Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Georgia General Assembly haven’t quite been able in recent years to summon the moral courage to severely limit their access to the largess of lobbyists. Now, ...
January 31, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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A pattern of petty contempt
Some folks, in an attempt to smear conservatives, have tried to make an issue out of the color of the president’s skin. In truth, as Michelle Malkin also noted on Monday’s MDJ editorial page, the ...
January 31, 2012 12:00 AM | 5 5 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Fed: Recovery slow, but hopefully sure
The economy is recovering, just not as fast as anybody, including the Federal Reserve Board, would like. We still may be three to four years away from anything that looks like a full recovery. Aft...
January 30, 2012 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Dr. Emily Lembeck, Cobb County's latest Citizen of the Year
    01.29.12 - 12:00 am
  • State of the Union? Unsatisfactory
    01.27.12 - 12:05 am
  • Teach For America? Wiser course for Cobb is to forgo program
    01.26.12 - 12:25 am
  • Romney-Gingrich - The face-off gets ugly
    01.25.12 - 01:14 am
  • Georgia Voices: The Economy — More ideas needed to help invigorate Georgia’s
    01.24.12 - 12:00 am
  • U.S. Industry: From overseas, it’s looking good
    01.23.12 - 12:00 am
  • The Pipeline: Obama the winner; consumers, jobless the losers
    01.22.12 - 12:09 am
  • Demolition derby and South Carolina is Round 3 for GOP
    01.20.12 - 12:00 am
  • Charles Krauthammer: A GOP suicide march: Obama could not have picked more self-destructive foes
    by Charles Krauthammer
    Columnist
    01.19.12 - 11:59 pm
  • Mitt’s Tax Returns - Better to take hit now than later
    01.19.12 - 12:01 am
    • Around Town: Political fundraising season is gearing up
    POLITICS: With the holiday season now in the rear-view mirror, the money-raising season is gearing up for candidates in this summer’s political races. Cobb Commission chair candidate Bill Byrne wi...
    February 07, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Hinojosa, school board suddenly on the rocks
    IT WAS SMOOTH SAILING for new Cobb School Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa during his first seven months on the job. He seemed to be avoiding the shoals on which his recent predecessors had foun...
    February 04, 2012 12:00 AM | 11 11 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Froma Harrop
    Froma Harrop: Immigration, ‘Obamacare’ join as issue
    Two of the hottest topics on the political circuit are illegal immigration and “Obamacare.” They can come together into a third steaming discussion: How the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act of 2010 w...
    February 02, 2012 11:59 PM | 2 2 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Ann Coulter
    Ann Coulter: ‘Romneycare’ was not the problem; Democrats are the problem
    If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles — as it was at th...
    February 02, 2012 11:59 PM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Lockheed mainstay ‘J’ just keeps going and going
    ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE AIRCRAFTS in the world is about to get even more versatile. The Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, which has been rolling out C-130 Hercules cargo planes since 1955, is re...
    January 31, 2012 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Was TSPLOST/TIA helped or hurt by Lee’s ... triple flip-flop?
    COBB Commission Chairman Tim Lee’s surprise transportation flip-flop this week might have salvaged both the TSPLOST/TIA referendum and his own prospects for re-election next summer. Or not. Lee ...
    January 28, 2012 12:00 AM | 25 25 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Booting Battle — It’s not over yet
    THE “BOOTING BATTLE” is still being waged at a parking lot on Anderson Street where unsuspecting motorists have been complaining long and loud about how Bret Tillman, who operates the lot, has been...
    January 24, 2012 12:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: With race headed for Georgia, is a CNN debate ... coming to Cobb?
    IS THE COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRRE about to get its moment in the sun, courtesy of a presidential debate on the eve of the Georgia Primary on “Super Tuesday”? Could be. If Massachusetts ...
    January 21, 2012 12:00 AM | 6 6 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Reg Henry
    Reg Henry: Republican columnist admits to ‘embarrassment issues’
    The following confession may explain a few things. Until now I have never contemplated visiting a psychiatrist. It didn’t seem necessary as long as bartenders were still plying their trade. What h...
    January 19, 2012 11:59 PM | 4 4 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney, Joe Kirby
    Around Town: All’s Well That Ends Well - But future of Marietta’s history museum still cloudy
    LAST TUESDAY’S RANCOROUS MEETING of The Marietta Museum of History board ended on an unexpected upbeat note, with Mayor Steve Tumlin pledging up to $5,000 out of his own pocket to match any donatio...
    January 17, 2012 01:47 AM | 20 20 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Around Town: Development Authority’s Powell, Rowe ... shined light on charade
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    01.14.12 - 12:00 am
  • Reg Henry: Tebowmania — Time for separation of church and stadium
    by Reg Henry
    Columnist
    01.12.12 - 11:59 pm
  • Bill Maxwell: Nation’s parks a place for tranquil beauty, not for guns
    by Bill Maxwell
    Columnist
    01.11.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: New acquisition a reminder that for Goldstein ... Coke is it
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney, Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    01.10.12 - 01:23 am
  • Around Town: Chairman’s race unofficially kicks off with Monday’s ‘State of the County’
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney, Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    01.07.12 - 12:33 am
  • Around Town: This and that on New Year's Eve
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    12.31.11 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Tis the morn’ before Christmas and Around Town says ... Happy holidays
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    12.24.11 - 12:00 am
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