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HUCKABY: Thanksgiving is the time for some Brunswick stew 0 Comments Last Updated: 6:40 PM 11/19/09 - Thanksgiving week is upon us and I am about to have a full week out of school. I was excited about this prospect until I replaced our old oven last week and learned that I would be required to spend my week out of school painting the kitchen. Hopefully the project won’t take an entire week because I have set two days aside for what has become a Thanksgiving week tradition for me — making Brunswick stew. (Full Story)
YARBROUGH: Hard-working teachers owed for certification 0 Comments Last Updated: 3:22 PM 11/20/09 - Attention, National Board Certified teachers in Georgia who got hosed by the state in the last legislative session: I think I have found the guy in the white hat that plans to ride to the rescue. And he is a good one to have on the horse. (Full Story)
MCCULLOUGH: I’m sick of the swine flu 2 Comments Last Updated: 7:21 PM 11/19/09 - I’m over the swine flu. I don’t mean that literally. As far as I can tell, I haven’t had the swine flu — although if history is any indicator, the fact that I’m writing about it will ensure that I get it soon. (Full Story)
BRODER: Primary fights can build up candidates 0 Comments Last Updated: 5:52 PM 11/19/09 - For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly surprising. As much as it may pain her many critics, she also has a lot of history on her side. (Full Story)
LETTERS: People on fixed income can’t afford more taxes 0 Comments Last Updated: 5:54 PM 11/19/09 - The powers that be think that everyone in Gwinnett is affluent, but we are not. I am a senior citizen on a fixed income. I don’t have deep pockets. I don’t have a money tree in my back yard. I don’t have a lot of money in the bank. (Full Story)
LETTERS: Obama doesn’t need more time to show us his vision of America 1 Comment Last Updated: 5:53 PM 11/19/09 - Who knew? After appointing more than 50 czars to positions of non-responsibility, President Barack Obama added another right here in Gwinnett County while we slept. We now have the Whine Czar, George Morin. (Full Story)
THOMAS: Victimization won’t return GOP to power 0 Comments Last Updated: 4:59 PM 11/18/09 - I’m sure I would like Sarah Palin if I got the chance to meet her. We share many things in common. She is still married to her first spouse, as am I. She has a Down syndrome son. I have a brother with Down syndrome. We share the same faith and we both like the outdoors. She is conservative on economic and social issues, and so am I. (Full Story)
PARKER: Will new study lead to better ways to screen? 0 Comments Last Updated: 6:24 PM 11/19/09 - Calm. That’s not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a new federal report on breast cancer screening. (Full Story)
CLINE: Thankful for what I don’t have 0 Comments Last Updated: 5:21 PM 11/17/09 - Everyone will be telling you what they are thankful for next week. Thanksgiving brings that out, causing us to slow down, reflect and be grateful for the things we have. (Full Story)
THOMAS: What do we have to gain from public terror trials? 0 Comments Last Updated: 5:19 PM 11/17/09 - The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center stood, the government should have chosen the Bronx Zoo, because a zoo is what will be created when this terrorist trial is held. (Full Story)
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