http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk An online community for discussion in Duluth. en-us spoole@ajc.com 2008-06-26T07:29:46-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 An online community for discussion in Duluth. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/06/26/the_voice_of_in.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk Hello, friends and neighbors. I apologize for not talking with you for a while. Home projects have kept me otherwise entertained. We will be celebrating the Fourth of July next week, and shortly thereafter we will find ourselves in a... 4871403@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-06-26T07:29:46-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/05/08/is_duluth_in_da.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk “Jais AAA Duluth,” one of the readers of my blog, recently asked a good topic question: Is Duluth still overdeveloping? I would suggest that Duluth, specifically downtown, has never really established a good foundation on which to develop in the... 3711203@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-05-08T08:14:33-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/05/08/is_duluth_in_da_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk “Jais AAA Duluth,” one of the readers of my blog, recently asked a good topic question: Is Duluth still overdeveloping? I would suggest that Duluth, specifically downtown, has never really established a good foundation on which to develop in the... 3711303@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-05-08T08:14:33-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/04/23/time_to_do_more.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk William Carter Gorman of Lawrenceville, a pharmacist, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for collecting child pornography. US District Judge Timothy Batten ordered him to be supervised the rest of his life after he is released from... 3331303@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-04-23T12:31:55-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/04/10/dealing_with_de.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk I suffer from depression. It’s an after-effect of my stroke. My brain got discombobulated, and the production levels of serotonin, norepinephrine and whatever chemicals help it run efficiently got all messed up. About two months after my stroke, I finished... 3012303@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-04-10T07:37:33-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/04/02/students_do_you.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk I was listening to radio talk show host Neal Boortz the other day. He shared a story that was right up his alley. A teenage listener is a student at Peachtree Ridge High School. Her language arts class was assigned... 2814403@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-04-02T09:01:16-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/03/24/lets_put_the_ob.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk Let’s talk about Barack Obama. He’s been in the news a lot lately, concerning comments made by his minister, Jeremiah Wright. A few caveats. I am not an Obama apologist. Nor is my intention here to make Obama your candidate,... 2606103@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-03-24T15:51:39-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/03/05/my_budgets_tigh.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk I had lunch with my roommate at Waffle House the other day. We had just finished grocery shopping, and Waffle House, for me anyway, it is always a good treat. A discussion ensued between one of the service staff and... 2147803@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-03-05T15:19:26-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/02/27/i_would_like_bi.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk “I would like Bill Allen to weigh in on this debate. He wrote the article that started this, and I would like to hear from him.” So says Concerned Citizen, one commenter of many to my last blog. My last... 1924402@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-02-27T10:20:43-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/02/07/dont_blame_dulu.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk A comment on my recent blog said: “Hey man, screw the Braves, what about these rogue Duluth police officers? I’ve been following the Jay Dailey story quite closely, and it only gets more bizarre. Can we get a blog about... 1455102@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-02-07T09:47:15-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/01/31/some_questions.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk How do I feel about the Gwinnett Braves? Mixed. My initial reaction: “good for them.” I like going to Turner Field to watch a game, but it’s an expensive chunk out of my budget. Tickets, concessions, parking fees — it... 1286002@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-01-31T13:16:46-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/01/09/blame_your_long.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk Readers of my blog (all five of you - thanks, Mom and Dad - the rest of you, the check’s in the mail) have read about my “reluctance” to join the cell phone culture. My Mom got me a cell... 810902@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-01-09T13:16:37-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2008/01/03/the_long_answer.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk State Rep. David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) summed up Georgia politics in a nutshell for me. The issue was revamping the sexual predator law that the Georgia Supreme Court held as unconsitutional last year. The revised law continues to impose one-size-fits-all... 696802@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2008-01-03T14:21:55-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2007/12/19/this_time_of_ye.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk It’s that time of year. Shopping, meal preparations, holiday specials and Christmas plays. Families travel all over the world to be with the ones they love on Hanukkah, on Christmas and for Kwanzaa. It’s also a time when people feel... 497702@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2007-12-19T11:15:24-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/entries/2007/12/06/advice_needed_o.html?cxntfid=blogs_duluthtalk I need your help. A friend of a friend requests input from my readers. “Cindy,” a 40 year old woman, is in a relationship with “Matt,” and has been for some time now. Matt has a 17-year-old daughter, “Sherry,” from... 270102@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/duluthtalk/ Bill Allen 2007-12-06T16:58:22-05:00