Those dastardly hoax e-mails!
Jacquie Brasher
      As much as I love the Internet and can't believe I actually survived without it pre-1996 (yes, I'm a relatively late bloomer), one online phenomenon over which I could sometimes deliberately crash my hard drive are bogus emails. They are a scourge on the face of my liquid-crystaldensity screen, a ...
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Barb's Bookshelf: McCarthy & Patterson
Barb Moore
      Cormac McCarthy, National Book Award winner, has just released a haunting and somber novel titled "The Road." This story is of a man and his young son, traveling a road. The road is a long one, a road of hopelessness, but the two are looking for hope, following a road to the coast; several weeks j...
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The pussycat press
Bill Shipp
      This week we witnessed, yet again, the triumph of political skill and spin over substance from Georgia's statewide news media. The Atlanta newspaper did some front-page trumpeting of Gov. Sonny Perdue's supposed "crackdown" on state workers' abuse of government credit cards following an audit that...
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Here today, gone tomorrow
Jack Atkinson
      Due to a printing error last week, Jack Atkinson's column was illegible in some spots. This is a reprint. For half a century or more it was always there at the red light in Twin City. One day last month, it disappeared. It vanished into several large dumpsters. The old service station no l...
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County fair--what's right with America
Lance Bolton
      The dust has settled now on the 2007 Logan County Fair. The livestock barns were eerily quiet Sunday night as my son and I walked through. The silence seemed oppressive after a week of baaing, mooing and cock-a-doodledoing that mixed with the sounds of energetic young people made such a wonderful ...
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Healthy meals and snacks
Marnie Dekle
      Many of us can relate to long hours spent at the ball park, or at a sporting event, and busy schedules often force us to rely on the concession stand for quick meals and snacks. With the rising rate of obesity in the U.S., these places provide a wonderful opportunity to be physically active.
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Savvy Senior:
Pet trusts
      Dear Savvy Senior When I read that Leona Helmsley (who recently died) left $12 million to take care of her dog, it got me thinking about my own pets. While I don't have millions to leave my furry family, I want to make sure they're well taken care of after I'm gone. What can you tell me about "pe...
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