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OPINION: Geechee descendants deserve input on Sapelo land deals
Sapelo Island is accessible only by a 30-minute ferry ride, and by most descriptions, it is a study in serenity and...
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Opinion: New state tax credit can help former foster kids
It’s a common misconception that when a child is removed from a bad situation at home and placed in foster care, life...
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Opinion: Georgia must do right by public defenders, people they serve
In 2002, fresh out of college, I moved to Atlanta for an internship with the Southern Center for Human Rights, a...
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INSPIRATION TO START YOUR WEEK
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” Lyricist and novelist, Paulo...
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Opinion/Solutions: New oceans treaty holds hope for limiting global warming
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW On the high seas, outside the jurisdiction of any country’s government, lie some of the largest...
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Opinion/Solutions: 3 ways schools can better counsel kids
The pandemic slowed student learning and schools and families are eager to see academic improvement as quickly as...
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INSPIRATION TO START YOUR WEEK
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger (sign) posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
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Opinion: Wellstar leaders speak about hospital’s closing
Atlanta Medical Center (AMC) has proudly served the community with compassionate healthcare for more than 100 years...
Opinion: AMC hospital’s closing will further stretch already-tight workforce
The past two years have come with unprecedented challenges for our state’s health care infrastructure. This fall and...
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Opinion: I see double jeopardy in climate change, poor health
Mary is a 50 year-old widow and mother of three from the Atlanta metro area. She struggles with high blood pressure and...
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Opinion: Let’s get beyond ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ on health care
They thought it would not matter. Their families have good insurance, excellent financial health and perhaps they have...
OPINION: Beltline rail: Will spending $230 million screw up a good thing?
In 2016, Atlanta voters overwhelmingly approved adding another half-penny to their sales tax (on top of the penny they...
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OPINION: The privileged, transient warriors protesting police training center
The latest roundup at the site of the proposed Atlanta police training center continues a trend: Young, out-of-state...
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OPINION: Buckhead crazy train halted. Hopefully for good
It’s asinine that we’ve still been talking about the malignant Buckhead secession effort. I’ve written before how...
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OPINION: Jan. 6 ‘Kid’ faces prison due to a lapse from reality
Through the decades, I’ve sat in many courtrooms watching teary-eyed families stand before judges to beg for mercy on...
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OPINION: Geechee descendants deserve input on Sapelo land deals
Sapelo Island is accessible only by a 30-minute ferry ride, and by most descriptions, it is a study in serenity and...
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OPINION: Accessory dwelling units offer a solution to Atlanta’s housing crisis
After 12 years as owners of Porter Beer Bar, Molly Gunn and her husband, Nick Rutherford, recently turned their efforts...
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OPINION: First Black UGA grad sees another way to be agent of change
It took more than 30 years for Mary Frances Early to be recognized for one of her most significant achievements. In...
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OPINION: Three decades after federal mandate, tribes still seek return of ancestors
In late January, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was scheduled to begin removing items of cultural importance...
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OPINION: An early test for Lt. Gov. Burt Jones - the family business or the state...
When Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was sworn into office earlier this year, the question in the Capitol quickly turned to what...
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OPINION: The peril of charging Donald Trump for bookkeeping fraud, but not election lies
Donald Trump has never been an understated man. His motto in life always seems to have been, “Why just do something...
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OPINION: How transgender bills became the new abortion issue in Georgia
I always get worried in a committee hearing when a member of the state Legislature presenting a bill doesn’t seem to...
OPINION: Mom of student killed by truck warns lawmakers on heavier loads
Late last Monday night in the Georgia state Capitol, an army of lobbyists huddled around a television outside the House...
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Opinion: With a bigger budget, the IRS starts to answer your calls
When Democrats in Congress approved an extra $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service last year, most of the focus...
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Opinion: GOP edges closer to party fight over Ukraine aid
This may be remembered as the week that Republicans began an internal battle over support for Ukraine.
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Opinion: Republicans win early skirmish in Congress on crime
Democrats have long had a fraught relationship with the politics of crime, and that was on full display this week as...
Opinion: ERA runs into political reality
A longshot effort by Democrats to get the Equal Rights Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution suffered another legal...
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Opinion: If we let Gen Z fail, they may surprise us and try harder
Bill Bergman is a lecturer in marketing at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond, where he...
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APS leader: We need business partners to help our students succeed
In a guest column, Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Lisa Herring calls on the business and corporate community to...
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New book: If we don’t fight for teachers, we will lose them
After interviewing teachers across the country, shadowing three of them for 12 months and taking a job as a long-term...
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Opinion: Here are critical questions we should be asking about ChatGPT
Stephanie Jones is the University of Georgia Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor, Mary Frances Early College of...
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Kids die from gunshots while lawmakers play partisan politics The first two headlines from a recent afternoon email...
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Stanford law students’ intolerance seems childish George Will (“Stanford’s woke brats throw a tantrum,” Opinion, March...
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Doctor-patient relationships need protecting Dear Georgia legislators and Gov. Brian Kemp: As a pediatric specialty...
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Climate change affects everyone, regardless of politics Re: The news story, “Spring has sprung, but it’s too early”...