I recently joined fellow members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees for the first half of a two-week round of hearings on the annual state budget for fiscal year 2011.
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If you’re of a certain age and/or generation (like I am) you will remember the great commentator Paul Harvey and his “Rest of the Story” segments of his radio program. Harvey died last month at the age of 90, after a long and respected career in radio.
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I was sitting at my desk writing out checks to various doctors, clinics, medical labs and agencies for my co-pays, deductibles, and insurance premiums when I heard a discussion on one of the morning news programs about President Obama’s newest health proposals.
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If it was up to me, I’d pull the plug on all anonymous comments on newspaper sites. I think it hurts society much more than it helps it. Too many folks aren’t really looking for news. No, they’re looking for a fight. It’s like roughneck bar hopping — minus the risk of an actual bar stool to the head.
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Just one year to go before a couple of key anniversaries get underway. 2011 marks the bicentennial of Madison County, Georgia, and the sesquicentennial of the Confederate States of America. Committees are being formed and plans developed to celebrate these anniversaries.
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Census time is here again. Every 10 years, we are required by the Constitution to apportion representatives and direct taxes among the several states. There are no other purposes for the census listed among the powers of Congress, and according to the tenth amendment, Congress has no power to use the census for any other purpose.
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A billions pounds of trash burned annually for 30 years near the Madison County line — that’s what Elbert County commissioners voted for Feb. 8.
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