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School system officials need public’s input
Editorial
As critical as the public education system is to the health of a community, Albany and Dougherty County residents have shown little interest in the last two attempts to communicate important information with the public.
Obama's falsehoods damage nation
Opinion Column
Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to assess.
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Squawk of the Day - June 17, 2013
Pick up a copy of the Monday Albany Herald to see what everyone's squawking about.
Googling ourselves to death
Opinion Column
At a party a few years ago, a young reporter bounded over to my cluster of social nodders and, with the breathlessness of a born tweeter, chirped: “What’s the new hot thing?!” Without disturbing my mascara, I replied: “Anonymity.”
Great Gatsby economics
Opinion Column
You don’t need me to tell you, but it’s a whole lot tougher leading a garage band than being a superstar. What you might not have known is just how much harder.
Thumbs Up! - June 17, 2013
Thumbs Up! is a weekly editorial that looks at positive things going in in the metro Albany area.
LORAN SMITH COLUMN: Finesse — not power — is key at this year’s U.S. Open
Herald guest columnist Loran Smith writes about the importance of the short game -- especially this week at Merion Golf Course.
Bright of the Day - June 16, 2013
Pick up a copy of the Sunday Albany Herald to read about the Bright Side of life.
Squawk of the Day -- June 16, 2013
Pick up a copy of the Sunday Albany Herald to see what everyone's squawking about.
Commission to blame for library controversy
Opinion column
As the Dougherty County Commission prepares to make a for-now final decision Monday on its Library Board's request to provide funds to re-open one of two library branches closed a half-year ago because the system couldn't afford to keep five branches open, commissioners should keep one thing in mind.
Dads get on-the-job training
Editorial
It's relatively easy to father a child. Being a dad to one, however, is another matter.
Look, up in the sky! It’s an undocumented alien
Opinion Column
A meteor is hurtling toward the Earth. High atop the Daily Planet in Metropolis, a man dressed in blue and red emerges from the stairwell. He crouches into a four-point stance as he prepares to hurl himself into space, where he will divert the meteor and prevent mankind from the same devastation that obliterated the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Then, his super hearing detects words being spoken ...
Looking Back - June 16, 2013
Histiry column
Each week Albany Herald researcher Mary Braswell looks for interesting events, places and people from the past. You can contact her at (229) 888-9371 or mary.braswell@albanyherald.com.
Dads worm way into cool
Features Column
‘My dad is so cool, he can jump really high. Higher than anyone else in the world,” one little girl said to another little girl, and it made me smile to hear the two of them debating their fathers’ cool factor in the line at the post office.
LORAN SMITH COLUMN: Former UGA golfers fighting way through ‘Little Merion’
Herald guest columnist Loran Smith writes about the former University of Georgia golfers who are teeing it up in this weekend's U.S. Open.
Vital spy programs need fixing
Opinion Column
Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the Postal Service may record “mail cover,” i.e., what’s written on the outside of an envelope — the addresses of sender and receiver.
Letters to the Editor
- Herbert Phipps deserving of chief judgeship
- Firefighters show ingenuity in rescue
- Welfare mentality destroying the U.S.
- Loss of privacy is not anything new
- Traffic law enforcers deserve our thanks
- Whose interest does Obama have at heart?
- Facebook is more trouble than it's worth
- Scouting change not for the better
- Congress ignores the bigger issues
- America needs to turn to new course
Editorials
- School system officials need public’s input
- Thumbs Up! - June 17, 2013
- Dads get on-the-job training
- Kay Hind’s life is truly one of impact, achievement
- Edward Snowden stirs up a hornet’s nest for the U.S.
- Thumbs Up! - June 9, 2013
- Can you hear me now, Washington?
- Knives have no place on planes
- Budgeting for city no easy task
- Thumbs Up! - June 3, 2013
Columnists
- Southern Soul puts soul in barbecue
- Obama's falsehoods damage nation
- Citizens' actions democracy at work
- LORAN SMITH COLUMN: Mickelson’s time is running out
- Give up self-pity and give time to others
- Hillary tweets, pundits wheeze
- Immigration debate is all about security
- Broadcast nets: Ailes what’s good for you
- Googling ourselves to death
- Great Gatsby economics
Blogs
- BLOG: Despite lack of skilled manufacturing in U.S., Apple to make new Mac line here
- Discretionary tax fund 'list' a must for local leaders 1 comment
- Is the city set to kill the multimodal project? 1 comment
- Commissioners bid adieu to the mayor in their own unique fashion 3 comments
- Wealth gap growing between Congressmen and constituents? Not in SOWEGA, at least not on paper
- First election prediction? There will be a runoff
- Voting: That was easy
- Edwards' little tax problem 2 comments
