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Healing is an ongoing process
Features column
The business of healing is not a passive, inactive process in which we can simply sit back and watch time pass us by, expecting that we will somehow be restored to our pre-wounded selves. Healing is an active process.
America has to be good to be great
Letter to the editor
In 1830, the government of France sent a well-respected judge, Alexis de Toaqueville, to study the society, the beliefs and the prisons of the United States to find out why there was so little crime and so few prisons.
Dog owners must be more responsible
Letter to the editor
Recently, an 80-year-old South Carolina wheelchair-bound man was killed by four dogs. The rising number of dog attacks should concern the public.
America needs to turn to new course
Letter to the editor
Recently, I had the good fortune to hear a talk by the vice president of the Georgia Right to Life. He presented interesting but disturbing statistics about the abortion industry in the U.S. The huge number of 55-plus million abortions since Roe v Wade in 1973 can be broken down to one fetus every 23 seconds. Since I began typing this, three fetuses were aborted.
Obama states there is no more room for excuses
Opinion column
Barack Obama is a gifted storyteller, and he’s always used his own life as a text, a parable, a lesson. Often he’s told tales from his own past to transcend race, to identify with mainstream America, to claim common ground about hardships suffered and obstacles overcome.
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Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
Opinion Column
Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn’t meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming that this is nothing but partisan politics.
Battle over Phoebe North stalling growth
Editorial
Regardless of your opinion of the ongoing battle between Phoebe Putney Health System and the Federal Trade Commission over the fate of Phoebe North (the former Palmyra Medical Center), the uncertainty surrounding the issue is a hindrance to economic development in the metro Albany area.
Writer offers history of slave trading
Letter to the Editor
In a letter to the editor, James King of Albany says that a writer offers history of slave trading.
American children are too pampered
Letter to the Editor
In a letter to the editor, Warren D. Grant of Albany says that American children are too pampered.
Christianity no threat to the U.S. military
Letter to the Editor
In a letter to the editor, Duane "Banjo" Davis of Pelham says that Christianity is no threat to the U.S. military.
Education makes difference in life
Editorial
This weekend and next are life changing for a number of Southwest Georgians.
Washington circus steals the spotlight
Opinion Column
Can President Barack Obama put out the brush fires that are sucking the air out of his second-term agenda? Can he stop the spread of mini-scandals that are consuming Washington?
Looking Back - May 19, 2013
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.
Bright of the day - May 18, 2013
Pick up a copy of today's Albany Herald to read more Bright Side comments.
Praying women attacked ay Western Wall
Religion Columnist
The Western Wall, one of the most sacred and prominent sites for Jewish and Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem, was the locale for anger, rock tossing and controversy last week when several hundred Jewish women exercised their legal right to pray at that prominent locale.
Both parties agree the Obama administration went too far
Opinion Column
Finally, an issue Republicans and Democrats can agree on: The Justice Department went too far in secretly obtaining phone records from the Associated Press that covered parts of two months and more than 20 separate lines.
Remember the movie ‘A Time to Kill’?
Opinion Column
An adaptation of John Grisham’s 1989 legal thriller, it stars Matthew McConaughey as a small-town lawyer in Mississippi who defends a black man who killed the two white racists who had raped his 10-year-old daughter. In his closing arguments McConaughey asks the jury to close their eyes and listen to the painful details of a story about the brutal rape of an innocent little girl.
No free rides for cosmetologists
Letter to the Editor
In a letter to the editor, Sherry Page of Albany says that there are noo free rides for cosmetologists.
Letters to the Editor
- America needs to turn to new course
- Dog owners must be more responsible 1 comment
- America has to be good to be great 1 comment
- Writer offers history of slave trading 2 comments
- American children are too pampered
- Christianity no threat to the U.S. military 7 comments
- No free rides for cosmetologists
- Education coverage needs balance 1 comment
- Frantz family offers thanks
- Volunteers impact the community
Editorials
- Phipps excellent choice for chief judge
- Thumbs Up - May 20, 2013
- Battle over Phoebe North stalling growth 5 comments
- Education makes difference in life 2 comments
- DCSS showing signs of progress 7 comments
- IRS profiled Tea Party, conservatives 12 comments
- Thumbs Up! - May 13, 2013
- The numbers are in for America’s moms
- Hot cars are no place for children
- Paula Deen museum cooks up exciting possibilities 16 comments
Columnists
- Obama states there is no more room for excuses
- Weather exploited for political gain
- Healing is an ongoing process
- Traveling lighter no easy task
- Tyranny is no longer ‘lurking’ just around the corner
- Wimps take on the barbarians
- High school uniforms a lesson in control theory 4 comments
- Common man’s buying guide
- Fredericksburg makes you feel at home
- Someone’s asking for an IRS audit 4 comments
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
