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EDITORIAL: Distraction in full bloom
by Rome News-Tribune
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THE GARDEN of Eden has been found. It teems with all God’s creatures, animal and vegetable. There’s probably a snake that speaks with forked tongue present as well. It’s Dobbins Mountain, apparent...
GUEST EDITORIAL: Reform? Never mind…
by the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer
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OUR EDITORIAL on the need for an independent ethics commission — i.e., one not appointed by and answerable to the Georgia Legislature — concluded that “if the General Assembly still wants a role in...
GUEST EDITORIAL: Difficult call on DUI law
by the Brunswick (Ga.) News
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SHOULD AN INDIVIDUAL in Georgia who is caught and convicted for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol be given a second chance? This could be an emotional issue, one that is tough to arg...
GUEST EDITORIAL: Use fees as planned
by The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
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GEORGIA HAS BEEN at the forefront of budget cutting throughout the Great Recession. There is no corner of state government that has not had to take one for the team. Unfortunately, this has also me...
EDITORIAL: Sex is out of control
by Rome News-Tribune
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A BLOW HAS been struck to advance the cause of unprotected sex, unwanted pregnancies and the spread of venereal diseases. The Teen Center at the Floyd County Health Department has been totally clos...
FRIDAY BLOG: Sins of the past are sales pitch?
by Rome News-Tribune
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DARN! SAVANNAH BEAT ROME to it. A firm specializing in walking tours for tourists there is focusing on lechery, treachery and debauchery by featuring tales of “love gone wrong, miscarriages of just...
FRIDAY BLOG: Hand me my helmet and notepad ...
by Rome News-Tribune
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THE LAND OF THE LESS FREE, though its bravery was not disputed, is how the United States turned out in the latest annual report of worldwide press freedom by the non-governmental Reporters Without ...
FRIDAY BLOG: Ladies, start your engines!
by Rome News-Tribune
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WITH CANDIDATES NOT HAVING to plunk their money down and officially file for local offices until the week of May 23, there’s plenty of time despite some of the early announcements for a whole passe...
FRIDAY BLOG: Walk more miles in their shoes
by Rome News-Tribune
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IF GOOD-HEARTED NORTHWEST GEORGIANS were to participate in every “run” and “walk” for charitable purposes held in Greater Rome during a year, how many miles would they put on their feet? Probably ...
EDITORIAL: Polls are open today
by Rome News-Tribune
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VOTE NOW. Don’t wait. Sure, the actual first election day of a possible four this year is still more than a month off (Tuesday, March 6) but absentee voting by mail is already available and advanc...
GUEST EDITORIAL: Food is not political toy
by the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram
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MAYBE IT’S AN EFFECTIVE political tool to portray President Barack Obama as a spendthrift giving away his neighbors’ valuables to lazy urchins. But it’s a callous and cynical technique that misrep...
GUEST EDITORIAL: Review idea has merit
by the Albany (Ga.) Herald
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RIGHT AFTER death and taxes, the surest thing is that a government agency, once created, will go on for quite a while, regardless of whether it’s needed. That is what makes a bill passed Monday by ...
EDITORIAL: Promise to keep promise
by Rome News-Tribune
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IN GEORGIA, it apparently has become necessary to pass new laws to make legislators do what they earlier had already promised to do. That may well define how weird this state’s approach to good gov...
EDITORIAL: Still champs in our book
by Rome News-Tribune
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ONE OF THE BIGGEST feel-good stories of the 2011 football season took a sad and unfortunate twist last week when the Unity Christian School Lions forfeited their ICSGA (Independent Christian School...
EDITORIAL: Does not compute
by Rome News-Tribune
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MANY POLITICIANS contend that the private sector can do a better job overall — costs, results — than government. Quite true a great deal of time. However, if this is so then government being in the...
FRIDAY BLOG: Ticket revenue is on the radar
by Rome News-Tribune
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THE DOG ATE THEIR HOMEWORK. Well, at least that was the way it sounded when the Floyd County Police Department reported a slipup in getting recertification from the state to use its 74 radar units....

THE CHAIR OF the Metro board of directors announced Tuesday the launch of an independent review into the handling of an unsuccessful development venture on Florida Avenue NW, about which we have written several recent editorials. It is a welcome move but late. We point that out not to be churlish but because the failure to investigate sooner raises questions about District and Metro processes.

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Tue Feb 07 19:25:00 UTC 2012

IN THE FALL of 2010, the Obama administration acknowledged a shocking truth: From 1946 through 1948, officials working in Guatemala for the U.S. Public Health Service conducted tests on some 5,100 unwitting individuals and deliberately infected at least 1,300 with sexually transmitted diseases. None of the victims — who included prisoners, soldiers, the mentally ill and commercial sex workers — consented to this barbaric treatment. At least 83 people died, and many suffered permanent damage.

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Tue Feb 07 19:24:59 UTC 2012

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION and other Western governments have rightly lambasted Russia and China for blocking action by the U.N. Security Council on Syria. The government of Vladi­mir Putin is particularly culpable for propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad: In addition to vetoing a Security Council resolution, it has been supplying Damascus with weapons. In contrast, though it suffered a diplomatic defeat, the United States will ultimately reap the benefit of siding with the Syrian people. As President Obama said in a searing statement Saturday, by rejecting the regime and its criminal brutality “we stand for principles that include universal rights for all people and just political and economic reform.”

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Mon Feb 06 19:45:20 UTC 2012

ANEW STUDY of the District’s public schools has the teachers union bristling about jobs, defenders of traditional schools fearing further gains for charter schools and some neighborhoods worrying their schools will close. Getting short shrift are the 14,236 children in the 46 schools where learning is judged so abysmal that projections show little or no improvement over the next five years. At the current rate of improvement, it will be 2045 before 75 percent of D.C. students are at grade level in math and 2075 before they are at grade level in reading. That’s unacceptable, and it is why we hope the information gleaned from this analysis will lead to new solutions.

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Mon Feb 06 19:43:00 UTC 2012