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Paying attention to climate change: Glad scientists are helping us
Although there are those who want to deny the climate is changing and the world is getting warmer, it’s fortunate that some do not.
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The Tenn-Tom tries again: A river runs through it, but will commerce?
For years, Alabama school children were taught that their state had more miles of navigable waterways than any other U.S. state. That figure became even greater when the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway officially opened in 1985.
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Measuring the drapes: And taking a little off the top of Social Security
With only a few weeks left in his struggling 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain pulled out an old political chestnut. The Republican senator told a Virginia crowd, “The national media has written us off. Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes and increase spending.”
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Location, location, location
Tuesday night President Barack Obama looked to mark the end of the bloody and costly U.S. combat adventure in Iraq.
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Redraw those lines: Ward updates would help Anniston
Next April, the results of the 2010 Census will land with a thud, a resounding noise that will put politicians, policymakers and mapmakers to work.
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Governors and their legacies: Tainted by the water war?
The governors of Georgia, Florida and Alabama have had plenty of issues to deal with in recent years: recession, unemployment, declining revenue, budget cuts and, in Alabama’s case, state raids on electronic bingo operations.
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Listen to MDA's message: What is Palmore's plan?
Turning McClellan from an under-used former Army post into an economic engine for northeast Alabama isn’t a job for one man, one office or one entity. It’s a monumental effort. It requires teamwork.
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Alabama at bottom of this race
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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It was already apparent that Alabama's cash-starved public schools weren't going to get help from the federal Race to the Top competition. The state's application was so weak that it couldn't break into the money bracket.
Timeout, time over for city council
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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What can we do; is there a path to sane and productive governance? It is not too early for the city and its residents to consider a change, or possibly several changes.
Good jobs? We'll take 'em — State campaign has strong merit
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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If one of Alabama's biggest needs is job creation — jobs that sustain families — then quibbling over what type they are may be a waste of time.
A damaging lawsuit
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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Faced with steeply declining revenue streams because of the Great Recession, Gov. Bob Riley last year declared the state education budget to be in proration. He cut 7.5 percent from what public schools expected to get in the 2009-10 school year.
No evidence
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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Accost the random lunatic on the street, and there’s no telling what you’ll hear. Baseless charges and conspiracy theories abound, everything from black United Nations helicopters circling the skies to secret Muslims in the White House.
Using our heads
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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Pardon us if we seem giddy. The arrival of football season does that to a great many Alabamians.
Give us the details: Public-safety director isn't needed
by The Anniston Star Editorial Board
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At an undermined cost — perhaps well into the six-figure range — Anniston City Councilman Ben Little wants to hire a public-safety director who would oversee management of the city's police and fire departments.
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