weekly editorial
Community should be proud of youth
Appling County, throughout the years, has been blessed with a number of gifted and talented children that have excelled in academics and extra curricular activities.
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67.9 percent!
This percentage represents the amount of students that graduated in 2008 out of the same class that started the ninth grade together.
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Take time, study each candidate
Much has been said about the upcoming election on the national, state and local level.
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Vote!
Let’s make this simple. Since 1884 The Baxley News-Banner has probably written hundreds of editorials and opinions on the importance of voting.
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Appearance should improve in weeks ahead
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For several weeks I have wanted to explain new technology that has been added here at the newspaper.
Bailout: did we need it?
by Max Gardner
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By now you probably have heard about the Congress passing a bailout bill that will eventually amount to more than the $700 billion bailout package requested by President Bush.
We report on fact not fiction
by Jamie Gardner
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Last week this newspaper was told by several citizens (including a first-hand witness to the event) that comments had been made at a retired educators meeting, by a school official, comparing this ...
Make them pay
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(Published in the Savannah Morning News on Saturday, September 20) State officials are rightly going after price gougers.
Good news for Appling
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The announcement from Oglethorpe Power on Thursday was welcome news for Appling County.
Why are citizens not allowed to discuss personnel?
by Jamie Gardner
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There has been an erroneous belief set forth by the Appling County Board of Education for several years now that when members of the public wish to make complaints about personnel, “public employee...
national news
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003 on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging below the 8,000 mark amid a dour economic outlook from the Federal Reserve and worries over the fate of Detroit's three automakers....
By JOE BEL BRUNO and SARA LEPRO
Wed Nov 19 14:58:34 -0800 2008
CHICAGO (AP) -- Associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the former first lady is weighing whether to leave the Senate and become secretary of state in the Obama administration, a job they say she believes is hers if she wants it....
By BETH FOUHY
Wed Nov 19 13:42:18 -0800 2008
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies....
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and LEE KEATH
Wed Nov 19 15:15:46 -0800 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday. The appointment has not been announced, but these officials said the job is Daschle's, barring an unforeseen problem as Obama's team reviews the background of the South Dakota Democrat....
By KEVIN FREKING
Wed Nov 19 15:17:57 -0800 2008