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State government ethics a work in (sort of) progress
As lawmakers continue debating ethics and transparency in Georgia government, with the hourglass emptying fast on the 2013 session, yet another independent nonprofit think tank has given the state a less than encouraging grade.
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Program created to help police, and those they serve
Early next year, COPS will be coming to Columbus. No, not new officers for the city's police force, but representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Service.
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Tax-free weekend a welcome break for family budget
School days are back. So is Georgia's sales tax "holiday," and families can take advantage of substantial savings today and Saturday on school supplies, computer equipment and clothing.
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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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'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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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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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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