by Rick Burnette | Aug 11, 2008 | Opinion
While living abroad for the past 14 years, international friends have sometimes fussed at me about America’s seeming indifference to issues affecting the rest of the world. To them, Americans are too smug, especially with regard to our way of life. Apparently,...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 10, 2008 | Opinion
Smoltz is hurt; Skip is dead; and the Atlanta Braves are essentially out of contention early. Trading Mark Teixeira was the baseball equivalent to raising the white flag of surrender.A team that looked promising coming out of spring training has had more doctor...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 8, 2008 | Opinion
I enjoy travel, and my favorite souvenirs are generally photographs I’ve taken and stored on my MacBook. When I do bring something home, it’s more likely to be an everyday item common to the country, or some sort of local craft.Intricately hand-painted...
by James L. Evans | Aug 8, 2008 | Opinion
As summer slowly grinds to a steamy close, children and young people around the country are gearing up to go back to school. For most of them that means public school. Public schools have been the mainstay for educating our children almost from the beginning of our...
by Chuck Warnock | Aug 8, 2008 | Opinion
An earlier column talked about several converging crises–energy, economy and environment. Since then the price of gas has gone down! Proof that I was wrong. Not! As a nation we are so shell-shocked by the energy crisis that we think a 10-cent reduction in the...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 7, 2008 | Opinion
This Sunday will be my last as co-interim pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Ga. The good “Z-people” are hosting a luncheon for Jack Colwell and me and our families.Church leadership came up with this unique dual-interim arrangement and everyone...
