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Opinion - Topics from July, 2016

Education:

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Wednesday, July 27. 2016

By Mike Ruffin

I was a member of the Lamar County High School Class of 1976, the first class to graduate from the new high school.

Yep, I still call the campus on Trojan Way “the new high school.”

Well, take me to dinner and call me dated! [Full Story »]

The high dive

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, July 27. 2016

By Mike Ruffin

During my boyhood, this time of year was all about going to the Barnesville swimming pool, which was located about where the Gordon Highlanders now play baseball. I’d join many others in purchasing an annual pass and using the laminating machine outside of Carter’s Drug Store to render it waterproof. [Full Story »]

Hatred can spread like kudzu

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Wednesday, July 20. 2016

By Walter Geiger

There is a spot I pass on one of my walking routes where kudzu has taken permanent hold. It has been there for years but has not spread far because it is hemmed in by a maintained hayfield on one side and the county right of way on the other.
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Self esteem kids not fit for Georgia State Patrol

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, July 6. 2016

I have written before of my disgust with the self esteem politics that I encountered on a brief foray into recreation football coaching many years ago.

My coaching partner and I worked hard to teach the boys football.
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Gays, Muslims and guns

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Walter Geiger

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Friday, July 1. 2016

By Mike Ruffin

Around two o’clock in the morning on Sunday, June 12, a man opened fire with a Sig Sauer MCX rifle on patrons of Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Forty-nine people were killed.

Another 53 were wounded, many seriously. Police killed the shooter. [Full Story »]