If Preston Barker was Florida State's leading receiver last year, then what is he doing at North Alabama this year? Why did he transfer from a Division I school to a Division II school?
I don’t get it—South Georgia Medical Center boasts how they have improved their emergency room services, however they don’t care patients are being left with large outstanding bills due to the new physician staff they hired is not in network with local business insurances (Blue Cross Blue Shield and First Health Network). I pay premiums on two insurances and still have a balance.
I had to deal with a police department detective involving one of the murders from the summer. I wish you all could understand how much work they do and how much our family and friend’s deaths affect them. God bless you friend and all your co-workers.
It is time for us to ask the city council for more police officers. The city has grown so fast we understood it takes time for our first responders to get help. With the crime explosion, we must say your time is up. Candidates tell the paper how you are going to provide the police the help they need.
Congratulations Phi Mu sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity for winning second place in the homecoming parade. Great work by students working together in our college community. Thanks for the beautiful cake baked by the Pink Ladies given to the person who loaned them the trailer used in the parade. Our community is proud of the grand young students who chose VSU as their university.
Congratulations to the Lowndes ninth grade and JV football teams for having undefeated seasons. Go Vikings.
Will this nightmare of racial bigotry never end and Dr. King's dream of brotherhood be realized? I can answer my own question. Not until people of courage realize, speak up and teach, that we all bleed the same color and we all feel the same pain and we all want the same freedoms and opportunities for us and our families.
Year round school is a great idea. Teacher’s salaries would have to reflect the change. With more time, the student is allowed to absorb more effectively the information they may be struggling with. Change is difficult but other countries don't have a problem with it.
What We Think
Rant & Rave for Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
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Don’t jettison landmark
While we respect the request to relocate the F-86 aircraft from outside Mathis City Auditorium to the new Moody Air Force Base Airpark, we would hope the city and MAFB would reconsider moving it.
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Shame in Berrien County
Unfortunately for Sherrie Williams of the Berrien County school-based health clinic, she talked to The Times and praised the program that she oversees. This pride in her work led to the loss of her job.
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Grading policy: A second chance?
In clarifying the Lowndes County Schools’ controversial grading policy, Superintendent Dr. Steve Smith spoke of second chances.
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Be up to any weather challenge
Georgia’s Severe Weather Awareness Week starts today and runs through Friday. The idea behind the week is to prepare Georgians for weather emergencies and how to keep these situations from becoming tragedies.
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Parents and schools
There is a lot of talk lately about school systems and grading policies, and how all of a child's problems come back to a lack of parenting. But is it really that simple? Can it be a case where the school systems are so focused on the problem few that the majority of students are ignored?
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Thumbs up, thumbs down
THUMBS UP: To Brooks County High School engineering and technology teacher Don Morgan and his students. They recently received national attention for their work with biodiesel fuel. They collect used cooking oil from area fast-food restaurants then process this oil into biodiesel. Morgan hopes to next interest the Brooks County school buses into running on the fuel created in his class. This classroom not only prepares students for the future but may prepare all of us for an alternative energy source.
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Take me out to the ball park
The Valdosta State baseball season begins today. The Blazers host Lindenwood at 2:30 p.m. Nothing beats quality baseball played in warm weather with a great venue like Billy Grant Field.
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What We Think: Signing Day
Wednesday was National Signing Day, the day when high school athletes across the country make official announcements about what school they’ve chosen to sign with.
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School policy fails expectations
Lowndes County Schools recently implemented new grading guidelines for students. These guidelines have left many parents upset ...
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Just the facts, please
The Times has taken some hits this weekend following the reporting of the Rev. Floyd Rose’ rally on Saturday concerning the car which drove into a home, killing an infant on New Year’s, and an incident at Pinevale Learning Center. Some police officers think the VDT is not being fair, and Rose accused the VDT of not printing the facts, but the facts are as follows:
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