Richard Hyatt

RICHARD HYATT: Service center doesn't seem to serve

Welcome to your new Citizen's Service Center. Your $32 million built it so that your government can better serve you. As long as you don't park your car in the deputy city manager's reserved parking place.

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Richard Hyatt commentary: A front-row seat to history

When Forrest Gump nervously peered over the shoulder of a fellow in a federally issued suit standing next to the feisty rooster that was George Wallace, Mike Raiford had seen enough.
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Richard Hyatt: Springer's Paul Pierce sets the record straight

Paul Pierce wasn't reading from a script when he called the Chancellor of the University System of Georgia an idiot. As a drama major with a job, the Springer Theater director wanted Hank Huckaby to know that his degree prepared him to do more than act.
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Richard Hyatt: An eventful year for the Muscogee County school board

Muscogee County teachers are ending a peculiar three-day workweek and students are celebrating the end of another school year. As they look back on the year that was, it is a good time to see what the school board has been doing this past year.
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Richard Hyatt: Cantrell's strategy pins blame on superintendent, cabinet if proposal doesn't solve economic woes

Stealing the thunder of a John Grisham courtroom, Mark Cantrell polled the leaders of the Muscogee County School District like a defense attorney polling jurors in a murder trial.
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Barbecue purists won't be fooled

Saw the latest issue of Atlanta Magazine the other day and it struck me their cover story must be a short one. This classy city mag is delving into territory it doesn't understand, telling big-city readers it has found 10 good barbecue restaurants within Greater Atlanta.
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Richard Hyatt: Overreactions on both sides of the Olive Garden table

When Kamryn wanted to drink her chocolate milk out of a long-stemmed wine glass, our only concern was how delicate it was. Sheís a rambunctious 4-year-old who usually drinks from a sippy cup, but when she saw the goblet on the table, she wanted to be a big girl.
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RICHARD HYATT: What a difference a year makes for educator

What a difference a year makes
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Richard Hyatt: Schools proposal in direct conflict with MCSD past

John Phillips discussed the possibility of 40 teachers losing their jobs and presented a plan to relocate children at two local schools with the emotions of a debate over whether he should use black or blue ink to endorse his impressive paycheck.
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Richard Hyatt: From manual typewriters to Twitter

When I entered the world of Twitter a couple of weeks ago, my colleagues at the newspaper dubbed it “an Internet milestone.”
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Richard Hyatt commentary: CSU should forget dreams of football

They don’t own a football and there’s no money in their athletic budget to buy one, but that doesn’t silence the constant whisper of Columbus State University fielding a football team.