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Twin Rivers could be helpful
      Do we really need another economic development group? That's a question we've heard since the announcement of the Twin Rivers Economic Development Partnership. Thomasville has an economic developer. The county has an economic developer. And there are more.
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From the Editor's Desk
Technology changes things
Arthur McLean
      While we were a little short-handed this week, one of our publishers came in to help. We started talking about computers and how they've changed the newspaper business. It was not quite nine years ago when I started my career in newspapers. The folks at my first paper still designed pages in a s...
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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
I'm a little superstitious
The late Earl Tucker
      February 22, 1956 Awoman columnist, in an article the other day, said superstition is nothing but ignorance. That sure gives us a lot of ignoramuses in this country, because just about everybody I know is superstitious in some extent. Everybody, that is, except me.
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Alabama Scene
McNair story would be a tragedy
Bob Ingram
      There is a book to be written or perhaps a movie to be made on the life of Chris McNair of Birmingham. It would be a tragedy. In 1963 when four little girls were killed by a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, one of them was his daughter. McNair had every reason to be bitter, to...
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