Mark Shields: Advice on graduation day
The graduation speaker's duty is to provide some rules or advice for the graduates.
Cal Thomas: Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?
Journalists should do their jobs on Benghazi and IRS issues.
Darrell Huckaby: It's hard to part with the 'stuff' of life
All good things must come to an end. I haven't really gotten tired of teaching. I just don't have the energy to do it all day any longer.
Jeff Meadors: Is Common Core all it's cracked up to be?
While many consider Common Core State Standards a national movement, opposition mounts.
Darrell Huckaby: Always cherish your mother
If you still have your mother this Mother's Day, cherish her. If you do not, cherish her memory.
Darrell Huckaby: We've lost a lot of color from the words we use
Words. We all have the same ones at our disposal but many of us seem determined to use the same ones over and over.
Jack Simpson: Misplaced loyalty
Just when you think nothing else will confirm your belief that we live on a crazy planet, something new turns up.
Cal Thomas: Taxing Internet sales
The debate over taxing Internet sales isn't about "fairness;" it is, or ought to be, about spending,
Darrell Huckaby: Even in heaven, Hazel Parish is the belle of the ball
If they had a yearbook for towns Hazel would have been best-dressed in Covington's for the past 88 years running.
Jeff Meadors: New accountability standards put burden on teachers
Accountability typically translates into more work for classroom teachers, so much so that many effective teachers now work in private, home-school and charter settings.
Darrell Huckaby: Saying goodbye to the cafeteria
The lunchroom was one of the best things about having the privilege of being educated in Porterdale.
Darrell Huckaby: Special Collections Library houses Georgia treasures
Last week I stumbled across a place I had never been -- and it is a place so filled with the types of treasures that are near and dear to my heart that I will have to keep going back.
Opinion
- Mark Shields: Washington snobbery distracts from the real issues
- Rob Jenkins: Some favorite things I've said about fathers
- Darrell Huckaby: TV dads can't measure up to the real thing
- Letter: Nursing homes are reflections of their employees
- Jack Simpson: Beware the telephone scammers
- Darrell Huckaby: Private conversations a thing of the past
- Cal Thomas: Whatever happened to consequences for bad behavior?
- Jeff Meadors: School system taking the wrong route on alternative school bus service 11 comments
- Cal Thomas: When government can't be trusted
- Darrell Huckaby: IRS tax forms not nearly so clear as the Constitution
Editorials
- OUR VIEW: Georgia needs more sunlight
- OUR VIEW: Blushing to help save lives
- OUR VIEW: Five years later, New Orleans still in danger
Letters to the Editor
- Letter: Nursing homes are reflections of their employees
- LETTER: The American's Creed
- LETTER: Will our freedoms be destroyed?
- Letter: More rental units a bad deal for Conyers
- Letter: Heartfelt thanks for prayers and support
- Letter: Do your part for cleaner air
- Letter: Weigh interests of children in selecting superintendent 3 comments
- Letter: The problem with CRCTs
- Letter: Too many questions left about SPLOST 2 comments
- Letter: Prayers, support appreciated
