News shows need to diversify economy
OUR VIEW
      There's been big news in the timber products industry around these parts lately with the sale of Weyerhaeuser's containerboard mills and the potential sale of Linden Lumber. It's become a viciously competitive business, and one that gets harder and harder for the small companies to keep up.
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From the Editor's Desk
You might be a terrorist...
Arthur McLean
      You hear it every election cycle, state moaning about how much it costs to hold an election, or primary or what have you. Democracy is not cheap my friends. It costs millions and millions of our tax dollars to hold one. Makes me wonder when we'll start seeing corporate sponsorships like they do w...
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Americans believe Iraq was mistake
By Bob Martin
      The Pew Research Center, a respected non-partisan and non-profit national polling and research organization, has just concluded a national survey on our opinions about the Iraq War as it enters its sixth year this month.
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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
Atomic age bugs and teens
The late Earl Tucker
      March 26, 1958 There were two news items last week kind of hid in the back part of the daily papers, that I'm afraid most of you people missed. Both of them were alarming in a mild sort of way. One of 'em was about bugs and insects. Lt. Col. Samuel O.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
      Chamber thanks The Southwest Alabama Chamber of Commerce would like to give additional thanks to the following members for there support in making the chamber banquet a success: WMBV - Rob Moore, The Thomasville Times, Clarke County Democrat, our local artists and professional photographers, Arts...
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