Editorial
Troy campus in Phenix City closer to reality
A new Phenix City campus of Troy University is something we've all known about for some time now; it's long been a reality in every sense except physical fact. But that doesn't make last week's groundbreaking any less a landmark moment.
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EDITORIAL
'Jobless recovery' a little brighter in Columbus area
It's still way too high. There are still way too many people out of work, even here, where we're doing so much better than so much of the country. Numbers, and fractions of numbers, have little meaning and even less comfort for our friends and neighbors who are still out of work but still have bills...
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Cheating scandal now exposed as national disgrace
So it's not just Georgia. Did we really think the biggest public school scandal ever exposed stopped at the state line? Anybody who professed disbelief that educator cheating is rampant from coast to coast would sound like the police prefect in "Casablanca" who is shocked, shocked that gambling...
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Glitch in quest for reasonable sentencing laws
Years of political chest-beating, in the form of mandatory throw-away-the-key sentencing laws, produced a system both impractical and impracticable, stuffing prisons with nonviolent offenders and costing taxpayers billions.
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EDITORIAL
Callaway serves state, nation with dignity and honor
Political considerations aside, there could hardly be a more worthy choice of a contemporary Georgian to be honored by the state House of Representatives than Howard "Bo" Callaway.
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Practicing to fight wars limited to the warriors
The United States is probably not the only nation whose military forces are involved in something like this. But it very likely puts us in a distinct minority.
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EDITORIAL
Price gouging on medications a moral atrocity
Criminal defendants are occasionally charged with "depraved indifference." In court, it has a specific legal definition.
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Georgia tax plan: The good, the bad and the unknown
The Devil, as the saying goes, is in the details. In the case of the tax overhaul proposed by Georgia lawmakers, Old Scratch has not yet shown his face.
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Editorial: Council must act decisively to save city pension fund
In the flush and heady ’90s, the idea of a “rainy day” reserve for the city’s pension fund might have seemed like an excess of caution. The fund was swelling so quickly Columbus Council decided not only to stop the city’s annual contributions to it, but later to...
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EDITORIAL
Blago sentence: American justice still has a pulse
Rod Blagojevich, the Chicago Democrat who as governor of Illinois gravitated to the media spotlight like a moth to a candle, made another appearance before the cameras last week as he was escorted away to prison.
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EDITORIAL
Renewed war on a legal but still lethal drug
The tobacco education campaign that began in earnest after the Surgeon General’s Report of the mid-1960s was one of the most effective anti-drug efforts in American history.
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