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OPINION: The days of the little red wagons

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Frank Gillispie
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Tuesday, July 13. 2010
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Several families were at the Colbert Independence Day festival with children being pulled in “Radio Flyer” red wagons. My brothers and I received one of their wagons for Christmas one year. Contrary to the claims of the company, it didn’t last very long. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: A conservative case against ‘drill, baby, drill’

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, July 9. 2010
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Call me what you want, but I just don’t have much stomach for an increase in offshore oil drilling after what we’ve witnessed in the Gulf. We measure everything in dollars, but I believe some things are more important than money. And I’m reminded of that when I see vast stretches of ruined ocean. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Which Georgians signed Declaration of Independence?

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Frank Gillispie
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Monday, July 5. 2010
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Georgia was still a young colony when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Founded in 1733 in Savannah, she was only 43 years old at the time. The number of native-born Georgians was small. That is why none of the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia were natives. [Full Story »] 

OPINIONS: Some truly bizarre political theater in South Carolina

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Zach Mitcham
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Thursday, July 1. 2010
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In Nov. 2009, Alvin Greene was arrested after showing porn to an 18-year-old University of South Carolina student. But he could celebrate the anniversary of that arrest in a most peculiar way — in Nov. 2010, Alvin Greene could be elected South Carolina’s next U.S. Senator. [Full Story »] 

OPINIONS: Things have changed a lot in the past 60 years

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Frank Gillispie
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Wednesday, June 30. 2010
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Do you remember when a Coke cost five cents? I was a “pre teen” at the time. Coke announced that the price of a bottle was going from a nickel to six cents and everybody was in an uproar about it! [Full Story »] 

OPINIONS: I love old dogs

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Margie Richards
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Monday, June 28. 2010
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I do love old dogs. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: The Deepwater Horizon vs. Moby Dick

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Zach Mitcham
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Saturday, June 26. 2010
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Long before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and even before the days of petroleum, men sought another type of fuel. And amid cutthroat competition for the precious energy source — whale oil — sailors ventured deeper and deeper into the blue seas in pursuit of riches. [Full Story »] 

LETTER: We need to speed up death penalty cases

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Letter to the Editor
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Friday, June 25. 2010
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Dear Editor:

While America’s criminal justice system has become one of the best legal systems in the world, it has lost the balance between civil liberties and punishment.
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OPINION: Finding treasures in old papers

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Frank Gillispie
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Wednesday, June 23. 2010
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Recently, while doing an inventory of the things left behind by my parents, I found a bundle of old letters. I was happy to discover that they were letters my parents exchanged during their courtship. They verified many of the stories my mother told about that era. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Thoughts on my daughter’s wedding

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Margie Richards
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Friday, June 18. 2010
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When my daughter was born I spent a lot of time just staring at her. I couldn’t believe I had borne something so perfect — from the brownish-blonde fuzz on the top of her head, to her pink little toes and toenails — she was the word “miraculous” manifested. [Full Story »] 
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