OUR VIEW
Sense of community binds us together
      On this page this week, we have a letter from Harry Hodges offering his thanks to those who came out to help him and his neighbors after high winds ripped through the neighborhoods in the south end of town. It's a spirit that comes with small town life. People know each other and they help each o...
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From the Editor's Desk
Well, nobody's perfect
Arthur McLean
      The Mobile Press Register beat me to the punch. I had this great column lined riffing on the Super Bowl with the tag line being nobody's perfect. Apparently a copy editor down there in Mobile had a similar thought process. Someone I know would say that's a pretty scary thing that someone else in ...
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A target on the backs of state's Dems
By Bob Martin
      The Democratic-controlled Alabama Legislature assembled in Montgomery Tuesday with many in the majority party feeling as though they were facing down both barrels of a double-barreled shotgun in addition to the problems they face with finding enough funding for education and all other facets of st...
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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
Men don't stand a chance
The late Earl Tucker
      There was a terrible thing happened out of Los Angeles last week and I'll bet half the men in this country missed reading it, on account of the papers being so full of satellite launching. On the other hand, I fear every woman in the United States did read about it, because they don't care too muc...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Neighbors come out and help after the storm
      Dear Editor: What a wonderful place to live! Shortly after the tornado last Thursday night damaged our house and vehicles, neighbors were out in the rain checking to see that my wife and I were all right. A swarm of volunteer firemen from the Thomasville Fire Department cleared trees from the str...
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