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Editorial: Dissent should have a purpose
Put yourself in the shoes of a member of Congress for a moment. Yeah, it may feel icky, but play along. For this exercise, set aside your political leanings for a moment and imagine you’ve been elected by a constituency that supports your views by a healthy margin.
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Letter: US should act even if chance of climate effect still is uncertainDepending on the study, the expert scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans varies between 93 percent to 99.9 percent. Consider the following facts. The National Academy of Sciences of every country in the world agrees with climate change being caused by the human production of greenhouse gases.August 2, 2017 -
Tom Crawford: Senate health care vote has tails in knotsThe biggest political story in the nation, the defeat of Obamacare repeal legislation, featured an unlikely appearance by a person you would never expect to see there: Georgia U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter. Carter, who is serving just his second term in the House, is one of many Republican congressmen who want to kill off the Affordable Care Act. It’s almost an obsession with him.August 2, 2017 -
Editorial: Schools race to keep pace with growthSorry kids, it’s already time to say goodbye to summer. The calendar may say July, but it’s time to head back to school over the next week for Gainesville and Hall County students. Many from their parents’ generation and older still shake their heads at the early start to classes, truncating summer fun just when it gets going good.July 30, 2017
