From the Rome News-Tribune, March 12, 2010 -- [] Thank you, Johnny and Jane When Johnny comes marching home again,/Hurrah! Hurrah!/We’ll give him a hearty welcome then/Hurrah! Hurrah!/The men wil...
Students suffered for lack of planning I was one of the parents who got a call from my daughter asking me to come get her and take her to the bathroom. It would have cost only a few dollars to have set up temporary toilets and water at...
Don't make higher ed bear brunt of cuts From the Marietta Daily Journal, March 9, 2010 - These are dark days for entities that are funded via the Georgia state budget, and they may well be about to get darker. That’s especially t...
Fee-fi-fo-fumble From the Rome News-Tribune, March 11, 2010 — DRIVING A LOCAL government or school system these days is a whole lot like being behind the wheel of a compact car in the middle of a three-lane ex...
No power grab From the Savannah Morning News, March 10, 2010— The Georgia Legislature stands on the verge of giving the governor the power to boot out elected school board members. Lawmakers must resist t...
Emotion shouldn't guide public records law From the Athens Banner-Herald, March 10, 2010 — “Sickening … disgusting … vile … hurtful.” Those words from Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, ...
Stop unfair subsidies From the Savannah Morning News, March 9 — Georgia lawmakers should work smarter – not just harder – to fix the state’s budget mess. Take fees. Georgia imposes nearly 1,800 ...
It's all about the buck-buck-bucks From the Athens Banner Herald, March 7, 2010 Buck-buck-buck-awk! Buck-buck-buck-awk! Hear that, everybody? That’s the sound of a whole host of your Republican state legislators these days, a...
Let's be sensible out there, students From the Athens Banner Herald, March 8, 2010 — Not that anything remotely similar is expected to happen in this state as plans for a March 15 protest over higher-education budget cuts move f...
From Athens Banner Herald, March 7, 2010 -- As they search for ways to cut the University System of Georgia's budget by almost $600 million for the upcoming fiscal year - the $265 million in cuts ...
From the Rome News-Tribune, March 9, 2010 -- DANG! They done caught us plottin’ to overthrow the peaceful State of Atlanta Suburbia with our forces of motorized terrorists. Here we’ve kept it a se...
From the Savannah Morning News, March 8, 2010 -- THE U.S. Supreme Court stands on the verge of another landmark decision, further safeguarding the right of Americans to keep and bear arms - but a ...
Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2010 -- In its 2007 report on the effects of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that glaciers could vanish from the Himalayas by 2035....
From the Rome News-Tribune, March 7, 2010-- KING SOLOMON had it easy. When he ordered the baby cut in half, he knew the real mother would want to save the child even at the cost of losing custody ...
From the Athens Banner-Herald, March 4, 2010-- Reaction to this week's announcement from University of Georgia officials that additional budget cuts requested of the school could mean the eliminat...
From the Macon Telegraph, March 4, 2010 -- The Georgia General Assembly, in a move last year that most Georgians won’t remember, cut one of the vital elements of law, order and justice. That body d...
From the Brunswick (Ga.)News, March 4, 2010 State Rep. Roger Lane, R-Darien, is optimistic. He's optimistic that the desperate counteractions suggested by the 35 colleges and universities in the U...
PRESIDENT OBAMA took office hoping that constructive diplomacy could yield progress on some of the thorniest foreign-policy challenges facing the United States. Among these was Burma, a Southeast Asian nation of 50 million people that has been misruled into poverty, decline and perpetual warfare by a benighted military dictatorship. Mr. Obama did not abandon economic sanctions against the regime, but he did hold out the prospect of warmer relations if Burma's regime would show some sign of easing up on its people.
SEVEN HOUSE members, including Northern Virginia Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D), collected more than $840,000 in political contributions from employees and clients of a lobbying firm, Paul Magliocchetti and Associates Group (PMA), during a two-year span. In that same period, the lawmakers, strategically situated on the Appropriations defense subcommittee, directed more than $245 million in earmarks to clients of PMA.
THE LAST TIME Maryland calculated what parents should reasonably pay in child support was 1988. That's when the price of a stamp was 22 cents, the average cost of a new home was $138,300 and a gallon of gas went for $1.08. It is time Maryland stop shortchanging children and approve a long-needed update of the guidelines governing child support.
RENÃ PRÃVAL, president of Haiti, has been in Washington discussing how to help his earthquake-ravaged country ahead of a major international donors conference this month. Unsurprisingly, given Haiti's history of wasted and purloined foreign aid, he is being asked about the perils of corruption and what measures the Haitian government might devise to minimize misuse and theft of the billions of dollars in recovery assistance flowing into the country and the billions more expected. Surprisingly, he seems utterly unprepared to discuss the matter.