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Opinion: 2025 Legislative Newsletter

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
By Alan Powell State Rep.   Gov. Brian Kemp has signed all the 2025 legislation he will put a pen to this year and he has vetoed seven pieces of legislation.  You can review legislation signed and vetoed at this link: https://gov.georgia.gov/executive-action/legislation.
The old airline school building (Photo submitted by Moorhead)

The old airline school building (Photo submitted by Moorhead)

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Opinion: Airline School

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
By Dan Moorhead Local Columnist   Except for one little blip in the sixth grade I went from the third through the eighth grades at Airline School. It was a country school in a day when community schools were still prevalent.
Sir Edward Elgar, the British composer of the famous “Pomp and Circumstance.” (Photo submitted by NeSmith)

Sir Edward Elgar, the British composer of the famous “Pomp and Circumstance.” (Photo submitted by NeSmith)

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Opinion: Graduates, here’s a ‘quart jar’ of advice

News Staff
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Sir Edward Elgar had no idea what he started in 1901. One hundred and twenty-four years later, the English composer’s creation is one of the most-played songs in America. Especially this time of year.
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Opinion: Would you like to see God?

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
By Eugene Ashby Local Columnist   This writer believes that everyone on earth would like to see God, even the staunchest Agnostic or Atheist. I can tell you how this can happen; however, first I must tell you a parable. What is a parable?
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Opinion: Throbbing heartbeat of the gospel

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
By Gwen Fisher Local Columnist   Hagar, an Egyptian and a slave of Abraham’s wife, Sarah, in Egypt, then as now, there were both brown and black-skinned people; but there is a good likelihood that Hagar was a black woman captured in Nubia and brought as a slave to Egypt.
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Opinion: Inconvenient convenience

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
By Dan Moorhead Local Columnist   It was like a death in the family. And it happened while she was on vacation. She was mortified and anxious that it had happened. And it was all her own fault. She had been in a hurry and did it to herself. How could she have let it happen? Oh…woe!!