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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: A wrench in our road trip plans

For the past week, people have been asking me two questions. First: “What’s ‘The Thing’?” The next question: “Where are you taking your summer family road trip?”

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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: On the road, in search of The Thing

It's almost summer, which means it's almost time for a road trip.
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: Everybody figuring out how to handle the new whitewater course

The other day I noticed on a travel website that somebody had given a locally owned Columbus restaurant four stars. But the rating included this caveat: "This is four stars for Columbus, GA, not the rest of the world."
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: Random holiday thoughts about schools, whitewater and my dog

Some random thoughts as we enter the Memorial Day weekend. Warning: Two of them are related to the Muscogee County School District, one is kind of related but really about whitewater, and one is a story about my dog.
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes commentary: BRAC brings growth to metro Columbus, but not to the Muscogee County School District

Anybody remember the 5th Brigade, 25th Infantry? I thought of it on Wednesday night when the bomb dropped. The bomb was Myles Caggins, chief of operations and facilities for the Muscogee County School District, telling a crowd at a public hearing that the district must close not two schools, but...
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DIMON KENDRICK-HOLMES: A week full of surprises

For the past three weeks, I've written about the school district, which not everybody likes.
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: The battle between two worlds

Whenever I write about low-performing schools, somebody always responds that the only solution is better parenting.
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: A different kind of education

For the past few months, I’ve been reading once a week to pre-K students at Muscogee Elementary. I’ve been the one getting the education.
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: Poor kids get all the paddlings

Maybe you noticed it too. Last Sunday, on our front page, we ranked the schools with the most paddlings so far this academic year.
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: The art of doing nothing

The art
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Dimon Kendrick-Holmes: Questions from the audience

Tim O'Brien was supposed to read from his work and then take questions.