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Opinion: Working to cure costly burden of medical debt
Financial ruin leading to loss of homes and bankruptcy. Poor health outcomes due to stress and lack of access to...
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Opinion: Gold Dome should see through bills to ease road congestion
As the Georgia General Assembly will conclude this legislative session on Wednesday, there are two bills in...
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Opinion: Weighing law, grace and human connection
When I do jail visits in Cobb, Cherokee, and Forsyth Counties, my clients sometimes bring up the Divine. “God knows the...
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INSPIRATION TO START YOUR WEEK
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. " Jennifer Lopez
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Opinion/Solutions: Groups share ways to help homeless
PORTLAND, Ore. - Inside a YMCA, religious groups turn a gymnasium into a weekly meeting space where they discuss how...
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Opinion/Solutions: How unsexy methods can make fashion greener
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW For all the attention it might draw, when a brand releases a line of clothes made of ever-more...
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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: 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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How Georgia-born education leader made mark before 1973 assassination
In a guest column, two academics recall and honor the life of Georgia-born education reformer Marcus Foster.
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Opinion: As public school students, we oppose private school vouchers
Zoe Jama Hutton is a student at Savannah Arts Academy and an organizer with Deep Center and Georgia Youth Justice...
Opinion: Vouchers by any other name are still failed policy
When voucher bills were first introduced in the Legislature 25 years ago, advocates contended vouchers would improve...
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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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Important to teach children nation’s history of intolerance I’m no saint and am the first to admit it. There is one...
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Thanks to Gov. Kemp, Georgia leads at procuring new jobs I think we all owe a great degree of gratitude to Gov. Brian...
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Labeling crime as ‘hate’ makes no difference to victims I’ve always been puzzled by the concept of “hate” crimes.
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3/24 Readers write
Kids die from gunshots while lawmakers play partisan politics The first two headlines from a recent afternoon email...