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Afghanistan: NATO bidding not farewell, but close to it
As much as any event, this weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago might mark a formal beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan. The foreign forces, now numbering about 130,000, are to be out by th...
May 20, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: A Tarnished Halo - Media deification of Obama at absurd levels
They did it as much for themselves as for the president. It’s a great way to get attention, after all. And weekly news magazines desperately need attention these days. But really. A halo? Even by...
May 18, 2012 12:01 AM | 4 4 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sunshine Laws: Olens’ update worthwhile tutorial for officials, media
Cobb and Marietta officials should henceforth have no excuses for abusing Georgia’s Sunshine Laws, following a lengthy tutorial on them May 10 at the County Administration Building from state Attor...
May 17, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Spoiled brats’? plenty of reasons to oppose TSPLOST
When Cobb Commission Chairman Tim Lee compiles his “reading list” to take to the beach this summer, we’d suggest he be sure to include a copy of Dale Carnegie’s perennial best-seller, “How to Win F...
May 16, 2012 11:27 AM | 14 14 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia Voices: TSPLOST: Drivers needed
Were it not for jawboning by the state and local chambers of commerce, plus quite a few hometown newspapers such as ours, the ballot question on July 31 regarding a special added penny of sales tax...
May 15, 2012 12:00 AM | 9 9 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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A dangerous new wrinkle in underwear bombs
There are undoubtedly details yet to come, but from the facts so far Saudi intelligence and the CIA have pulled off a brilliant intelligence coup. A double agent, presumably a Saudi, pretending to...
May 14, 2012 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gay Marriage - Obama’s ‘evolution’ not likely to end debate
President Barack Obama has again endorsed same-sex marriage, a position he held in 1996 and later conveniently abandoned during his campaigns for U.S. Senate and the White House. By 2010 his posit...
May 13, 2012 01:00 AM | 16 16 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Changing Times - Lugar wore out his welcome, lost touch with base
Maybe Sen. Richard Lugar’s successful opponent in the Indiana Republican primary was right Tuesday when he said, “It’s time.” Lugar, 80, was seeking a seventh term. He hadn’t owned a house in Indi...
May 11, 2012 12:01 AM | 3 3 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remapping: Judge giving politicians a lesson
It’s too bad that the Cobb Commission’s redistricting process has come to this, but so be it. A federal judge might — or might not — issue an elections map for the county with new district lines ba...
May 10, 2012 12:00 AM | 2 2 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • A week for honoring heroes
    05.09.12 - 12:00 am
  • Georgia Voices: Why is union fighting for bounty hunters?
    by The Augusta Chronicle
    05.08.12 - 12:00 am
  • Georgia Voices: Good Dawg: Departing president has earned his ‘parachute
    by The Savannah Morning News
    05.08.12 - 12:00 am
  • Congress should stop taxing dead soldiers’ debts
    05.07.12 - 12:00 am
  • ‘New’ Hickory Hills Park was ... worth waiting for
    05.06.12 - 12:01 am
  • No More for Newt - But Gingrich helped shape race against Obama
    05.03.12 - 12:01 am
  • Killing bin Laden - and hogging the credit
    05.02.12 - 12:01 am
  • Georgia Voices: Guess who says welfare system failing?
    05.01.12 - 12:00 am
  • Georgia Voices: Tybee Trash
    05.01.12 - 12:00 am
  • Job market starting to show faint signs of life
    04.30.12 - 12:00 am
    • Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney, Joe Kirby
    Around Town: School board incumbents facing no lack of challengers
    THREE OF THE FOUR incumbent Cobb school board members whose terms are up this year are expected to have opposition should they run for re-election and a challenger for the fourth is waiting in the ...
    May 19, 2012 12:48 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Shovel Ready: MHS to break ground for auditorium on Thursday
    IT’S BEEN A SCANT TWO MONTHS since Marietta voters approved a $7 million bond issue to help fund a new auditorium at Marietta High School, but school system officials aren’t wasting any time. Groun...
    May 15, 2012 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Open Records forum found Olens back in his ... Old Stomping Grounds
    STATE Attorney General Sam Olens was back in his old Marietta stomping grounds on Thursday, and with a roomful of local notables hanging on his every word. Olens played a key role in this year’s ...
    May 12, 2012 01:37 AM | 3 3 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Demo Delegates; six from Cobb headed to party’s presidential convention
    SIX COBB RESIDENTS have been chosen as delegates to the upcoming 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte Sept. 4 to 6, at which President Barack Obama is expected to be renominated. Accor...
    May 08, 2012 12:00 AM | 7 7 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: ... Vote switcheroo could help Harrison — and resurrect Teach for America
    IS COBB SCHOOL BOARD vice Chairman David Morgan planning to switch his vote yet again and vote at Wednesday’s work session to support construction of the Harrison High School ninth-grade center, in...
    May 05, 2012 12:00 AM | 10 10 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: For one night at least, Cobb again to be center of the Republican universe
    COBB HAS OFTEN been called “the center of the Republican universe” — or at least the part of that universe that includes Georgia. And that will certainly be true on the evening of June 11. That’s ...
    May 01, 2012 12:00 AM | 12 12 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Candidates for D.A., Clerk drawing the donations
    THE RACE to be Cobb’s next district attorney is shaping up as a one-sided contest, if campaign contributions are any indication. Former Cobb Chief Magistrate Vic Reynolds, now one of the county’s m...
    April 28, 2012 12:00 AM | 8 8 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: End of an Era - Final F-22 to fly off next week
    THE F-22 ERA at Marietta’s Lockheed Martin plant will officially draw to a close next week with the delivery May 2 of the final copy of the Raptor stealth fighter. The 195th and final Raptor (wit...
    April 24, 2012 12:01 AM | 7 7 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: Clay said to be eyeing race for county commission chairman
    ONE OF COBB’S most seasoned political leaders might be the newest name to plunge into the pool of candidates to be the next chairman of the Cobb Board of Commissioners. Marietta attorney Chuck Cla...
    April 21, 2012 12:00 AM | 6 6 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Around Town: This & that ... with a computer handy
    TRIPPER SHARP, one of the plaintiffs to the 2007 lawsuit against Cobb EMC and a candidate seeking election to the board in Saturday’s runoff, tells AT that he is disturbed by reports that some man...
    April 17, 2012 12:00 AM | 14 14 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Around Town: Mariettans getting kick from remembering the ... locomotive chase
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    04.15.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: War of Words; Race for county chairman starting to heat up
    04.10.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Lee the winner ... Maybe not in votes, but definitely in contributions
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    04.07.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Krystal Kaput; Landmark city eatery closes doors for good
    04.03.12 - 12:00 am
  • Around Town: Best parts of Tumlin’s ‘State’ speech were on the cuff
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    03.30.12 - 09:40 pm
  • Around Town: This and that with a computer handy
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    03.27.12 - 12:01 am
  • Around Town: Olens has prime seat Monday as court weighs whether to overturn Obamacare
    by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney and Joe Kirby
    Around Town Columnists
    03.24.12 - 12:00 am
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