Dick Yarbrough
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YARBROUGH: Perdue horsing around with budget plans
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Last Updated: 7:25 PM 03/12/10 - In the midst of one of the worst economic crises in memory, the Georgia General Assembly has to make some extremely difficult financial decisions. I don’t envy the legislators’ job. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: Rate parents to improve education
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Last Updated: 9:37 PM 03/05/10 - I am up to my gizzard with our governor and Legislature and assorted bureaucrats stomping around in public education with little regard for the consequences of their actions. Example: One school system in the state has been considering allowing the police to bring Tasers into the schools to quell unruly students. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: Setting record straight on a not-so-straight interview
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Last Updated: 8:39 PM 02/26/10 - A few weeks ago, I interviewed Charles Ector, of Gainesville. I had been told he was a former Tuskegee Airman. He was portrayed as a World War II fighter pilot who came back home from Europe to join the vaunted fighters that had to deal with enemies abroad and racial prejudice at home. When we met, I asked him about his experiences. He said, “I don’t want to talk about it.” (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: A warrior who battled to make us better people
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Last Updated: 6:02 PM 02/19/10 - The body is a little frail and he walks with a cane, but the man still has the look of a warrior. His name is Charles Ector. He experienced the uglier side of society and with dignity and determination took prejudice head on. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: With problems solved, on to the microchips
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Last Updated: 7:02 PM 02/12/10 - While you and I have been tending to the mundane matters of life like filing our taxes and paying our bills, members of the General Assembly have been watching too many science fiction movies. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: Skeeter puts everything in perspective
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Last Updated: 4:54 PM 02/05/10 - Whenever this world starts looking too complicated, I call my friend Skeeter Skates, owner of Skeeter’s Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Greater Metropolitan Pooler. Skeeter has a wonderful way of putting things into perspective. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: Ga. politicians need a good ol’ tea party
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Last Updated: 2:24 AM 01/30/10 - What this state needs is a good old-fashioned Tea Party. Not one directed at the liberal weenies in Washington who tried to ram health care reform down our throats. This protest needs to focus on the state of Georgia. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: Giving the legislators a jump start
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Last Updated: 7:48 PM 01/22/10 - Let’s cut our legislators a little slack before they begin their deliberations in the current session of the General Assembly. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: Sonny’s got a handle on his legacy
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Last Updated: 7:19 PM 01/15/10 - I read where Gov. Sonny Perdue held a pep rally at the Capitol for state agency heads, state employees and assorted bass fishermen to fire up the troops as he prepares for the last year of what has been a scintillating two terms as our leader. (Full Story) |
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YARBROUGH: Some advice for grandsons in the new year
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Last Updated: 8:09 PM 01/08/10 - To Brian and Thomas Yarbrough and Nicholas Wansley: I don’t know if you are keeping score, but my annual correspondence with you is now entering its second decade. We started when you were gap-toothed, giggly moppets. Now one of you is married and is a father, one of you is about to graduate from college and the third is winding up high school. (Full Story) |
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