OPINION: A remembrance for Lemuel Penn

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Monday, July 28. 2014
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To speak of race, to speak of the South, to speak of loss — these things infringe on our deepest feelings. So it’s quite natural to avoid such topics, to put them out of our minds, to say they are irrelevant to the here and now. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Herman Buffington leaves a lasting influence

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Zach Mitcham
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Wednesday, July 16. 2014
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Herman Buffington had pretty much retired from newspaper work by the time I showed up as a new hire at The Jackson Herald office in 1996 with longer hair and fewer inches on the belt loop than now. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: MCHS — the community made a worthwhile investment

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, July 14. 2014
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When I look at the expansion at Madison County High School, I see evidence of a community wanting a good place for its youth. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: My estranged relationship with golf

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, June 27. 2014
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If golf is a marriage of person and sport, then mine is estranged. We’re not divorced. We could still get back together. But we’re certainly not close like we used to be and we have some serious issues to work out. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: My musings on memory

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, June 20. 2014
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I spend a lot of time thinking about my memories and memory itself. How do certain people retain so much more than me? And how does the brain, this three pounds of flesh, hold shapes and sounds from the past, electric sparks tying 1985 to now? [Full Story »] 

OPINION: How will the Internet change?

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Zach Mitcham
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Monday, June 9. 2014
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The Internet has already evolved significantly over the past two decades. That old dial-up squeal was fascinating, the fact that your phone line could grab words and photos out of some knowing ether, some invisible cloud. Actually, that’s still amazing, but that dial-up sound has been passed by like a 35mph driver on the technology interstate. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: For the parents of high school graduates

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, May 23. 2014
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This year’s Madison County graduating class won’t get to enjoy the pretty new facilities going up at the high school campus. Their MCHS expansion experience is one of backhoes, signs and mud, which I’m sure is a disappointment, but that’s hardly a downer for them this week as they leave the campus and hurl their caps to the sky. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: For money's sake, NCAA let's shaky fields of study get a pass

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, May 23. 2014
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Should college athletes get paid? Well, most of us say they already do — they get an education, which they can use to secure a livelihood. As the NCAA proudly repeats, most of its student athletes “will go pro in something other than sports.” [Full Story »] 

OPINION: The lives of the served and the servers

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, May 16. 2014
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I could never live at “Downton Abbey.” [Full Story »] 

OPINION: New gun law is about identity, not safety

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, May 9. 2014
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Given how hot headed people get over politics, it seems the Georgia State Capitol would be as good a place as any to carry your gun for self protection. [Full Story »] 
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