Editorial: CID has done much to give Platinum Triangle its luster 08/20/2008
We all know how built-up the Platinum Triangle area of Cobb County is today, and how its road network - though still congested at times - is the envy of the metro area and the Southeast. But let's roll back the clock two decades.
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Bill Shipp: One-Term John? 08/20/2008
If an aging presidential candidate loses his car keys once in a while or absent-mindedly puts his shoes in the Frigidaire, it's OK by me. I know how it is. If you keep playing this game, you begin to slip.
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Kathleen Parker: Purpose-driven politics - and we lost 08/20/2008
At the risk of heresy, let it be said that setting up the two presidential candidates for religious interrogation by an evangelical minister - no matter how beloved - is supremely wrong.
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An exception to falling traffic deaths 08/19/2008
One of the more beneficial side effects of a slowing economy and rising gas prices is a decrease in traffic fatalities. Last year traffic deaths fell to 41,059, the lowest since 1994, and the fatality rate - 1.37 deaths per 100 million miles - was the lowest ever, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
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Broad public 'buy-in' needed for downtown 08/19/2008
The Downtown Marietta Development Authority closed the door on an unfortunate chapter in its history last week, and opened the door to what hopefully will be a more positive one.
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Around Town: Facility Group opting out; Log cabin at heart of mosque? 08/19/2008
THE FACILITY GROUP will not submit a bid for the design/build contract on the new superior courthouse because it does not want to "embarrass" Cobb County or Chairman Sam Olens, says an official of the Smyrna-based company.
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Editorial: 'Hot war' in Georgia is reigniting Cold War 08/18/2008
The Russians may eventually honor that peace agreement brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy but they seem determined to take their own time about it. And they also seem to have their own generously elastic interpretation of its terms.
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Dick Yarbrough: The amazing Sketter Skates tells it like it is 08/18/2008
It never fails. Just let me say one nice thing about the great state of Georgia and I get letters from people who (a) live in the state, but (b) are originally from a state north of the Mason-Dixon Line that (c) they think is better than the state in which they now reside.
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Michelle Malkin: Cheating Chinese, crouching IOC 08/18/2008
I have an 8-year-old daughter. I know what 8-year-old hands and feet and hips and teeth look like. They look a lot like the hands and feet and hips and teeth of the purported "teenagers" on the gold medal-winning Chinese girls' gymnastics team.
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Editorial: Woes reminder timing is crucial in real estate 08/17/2008
No one is proposing to take down the Marietta city limits signs and replace them with new ones that say "Limbo," but that's where several high-profile redevelopment projects seem to be these days.
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