Opinion
Rant & Rave for Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
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.
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What We Think: Get A Taste Of Home
If you’ve never attended the Taste of Home Cooking School, well, then, you don’t know what you’ve been missing.
- Rant & Rave for Monday, March 22, 2010
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What We Think: TitleTown trophy goes home
On Friday, representatives from the school systems converged on Valdosta City Hall to move the TitleTown trophy to its new and permanent home at the James H. Rainwater Conference Center.
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From the publisher: Health care debate today might open the heavens
Today at 1 p.m., Congress will start its ‘final’ debate of national health-care reform and a vote is expected sometime today. I don’t know about you, but my head is hurting from the yelling from both sides. I am hoping for some relief by Monday.
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What We Think: Thumbs up, thumbs down
THUMBS UP: To the Lowndes High School Mock Trial Team for bringing home six awards from the 22nd Annual Georgia Mock Trial Competition in Lawrenceville. Team members David Kenner, Jamie Mauldin, Tumise Asebiomo, Brianna Turner and Brittany Ward won individual awards. The entire defense team received a perfect score in round two.
- What We Think: Running against cuts
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Rant & Rave for Friday, March 19, 2010
If the city council, attorney and mayor and others who make the decisions would do honest planning and look out for the people instead of their own wants, they wouldn't need bullet-resistant glass and other things for their so-called protection.
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What we think: Do the math
The Georgia General Assembly is still debating the budget — the one where millions of dollars have to be cut from programs due to budget shortfalls, due largely to decreased spending due to a large unemployment rate, mortgage default rate, etc.
The state is in a pickle. - Rant & Raves for March 18, 2010
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What We Think: How much is too much?
The questions being raised by Republican senators concerning the compensation package that the CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of America receives is understandable given that the Senate is preparing to vote on a bill that would provide funding for the program for the next five years.
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