Newton Citizen

Darrell Huckaby: Time flies when a wedding is on the horizon

I suppose I knew this day would come sometime, but not this soon.

Darrell Huckaby: Baseball, past and present, is good medicine

A baseball game and baseball memories take the sting out of a quarterly visit to M.D. Anderson.

Jeff Meadors: Strategic plan will be key to Fuhrey's success

Where will Samantha Fuhrey, affectionately called Sam, lead Newton County schools?

Cal Thomas: Two prime ministers

What Westerners struggle to figure out is how to distinguish Islamists from moderate Muslims and how to recognize the true Islamist when they are taught to deceive us about their radical beliefs.

HUCKABY: Are we willing to take up the torch of freedom?

Are we the people still willing to take up the torch for those who have given their last full measure on behalf of liberty and freedom?

Darrell Huckaby: Clothes make the man -- if you can find your size

As a retired Southern gentleman, who was educated a large university, I recently noted that my sartorial splendor has fallen short.

Jack Simpson: The violence problem in New Orleans

Crime, corruption, racism, violence and hurricane damage has given New Orleans the reputation as a dangerous tourist attraction.

Jeff Meadors: Performance flags give needed direction for educational improvement

Georgia's College & Career Ready Performance Index highlights performance flags.

Darrell Huckaby: Oklahoma tragedy will bring out the worst -- and the best -- in us

Words cannot express the horror that went through my mind as images of the deadly tornado that swept through Oklahoma began to be broadcast Monday afternoon.

Cal Thomas: Tyranny is no longer 'lurking'

Tyranny is no longer lurking. It's here.

Mark Shields: Obama's second term pitfalls

The president who benefits from personally giving the green light to Navy SEAL Team 6 will also be held accountable for the wrongful acts of his appointees.

Rob Jenkins: Saying goodbye to another year of folding chairs and ballpark hotdogs

I've been thinking once again about the way we parents become enslaved to our kids' activities.

Darrell Huckaby: Writing this column never grows old

Sometimes when I speak I am asked to field questions from the audience.

Jack Simpson: Bees in danger

It is scary to think of the consequences if we cannot reverse the decline in bee deaths.

Darrell Huckaby: Choosing a line of work now that I'm retired

Now that I am a retired educator I guess I have to decide what to tell people when they ask me what I do for a living.

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