Editorial: Founders got it right on Electoral College 07/22/2008
Lately, there has been a push to get rid of the Electoral College - the way we choose presidents - and replace it with a pure popular vote.
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Around Town: Runoff an East side-West side story; Absentees were key for Wix win 07/22/2008
POLITICAL PATTER: The Aug. 5 runoff for the District 2 Cobb Commission seats representing lower east Cobb is shaping up as an East Side/West Side story.
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Editorial: A welcome sign on ending city secrecy 07/21/2008
Have the blinders finally been removed from the eyes of one Marietta City Hall's foremost advocates of secrecy? So it is starting to seem.
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Random Thoughts 07/21/2008
No good deed goes unpunished. Recently I mentioned that Sen. Saxby Chambliss wanted to hear from you regarding your thoughts on the current energy crisis. A lot of you wrote him, and many of you sent me a copy. I found your letters a lot more thoughtful than the reply you received from the senator's office.
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Matt Towery: Will Barr fly or flop as factor in presidential race? 07/21/2008
Many folks don't even know who Bob Barr is, much less that he is running for president as the Libertarian nominee. The question is whether enough people will come to know the former Republican congressman by November to allow Barr's candidacy to really matter.
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Editorial: Faster vote-counting? Best to consider now, not in fall 07/20/2008
Technology sometimes is less than it's cracked up to be. Take electronic voting machines. You'd think that in the computer age, getting poll results would be a snap on election night.
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Bill Kinney: Taking Off 07/20/2008
Retired Georgia National Guard Lt. Gen. David Poythress has plenty on his plate in coming months.
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Nelson Price: God is a god of judgment; Try not to let him down 07/20/2008
Have you ever noticed that when an individual says a certain thing is a "judgment of God" there is an immediate dog pile and the dog being piled on is the person making the statement?
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Around Town: Nothing for granted in runoffs; City's been 'waiting on the RR' 07/19/2008
SOMETIMES BEING THE LEADING VOTE-GETTER in a multi-candidate primary puts a candidate on Easy Street as he heads into a runoff. And sometimes it doesn't. Last week's party primaries in Cobb were a case in point.
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Della-Lisa Gray /Letter to the Editor: School board's Gray victim of 'change for sake of change' 07/19/2008
For the past 15 years, I have read and heard a plethora of statements regarding my mother, Betty Gray, and her position on the Cobb school board.
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