Dick Yarbrough
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Column: Education expert says students aren’t blue...
by Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
10:43 AM, Friday, May 24
Dear public school teachers in Georgia: It looks as if you have survived another year of underwhelming support from state legislators, many of whom would kiss a tree toad if so instructed by the anti-public education crowd. I know it is frustrati...

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Column: Scarlett O’Hara and food freaks
Q: I am a happily married mother who occasionally yearns for those youthful, carefree days of college when I often ...
10:25 AM, Thursday, March 21
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Despite new ethics reform laws, Geor...
EDITOR: Georgia House Ethics Committee chair Joe Wilkinson, R-Sandy Springs, has ridiculed ethics reform by compar...
10:20 AM, Thursday, March 21
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Forts connect Civil War to 21st century
The Civil War earthworks are easy to spot if you know what you are looking for along the ridges near the train tracks...
03:39 PM, Wednesday, March 20
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: This judge has earned his place at head of table
Let’s face it. Judges can be pretty scary folks to We the Unwashed. About the only time we ever see them is when we a...
11:17 AM, Thursday, March 14
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Bernice Kirzner
Guest column: Is my child ready for kindergarten?
Kindergarten, pre-kindergarten, transitional kindergarten — how do I know where my child will be most successful? Wit...
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Lauretta Hannon
Column: Play dates and mad gambles
Q: I recently invited a mother and her child over for a play date. The mother brought a sick child but strongly ins...
10:29 AM, Thursday, March 14
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Move to the multiplex more of a mad dash
A generation of Northside children grew up spending their Saturday afternoons in movie theaters marveling at Flash Go...
04:47 PM, Wednesday, March 13
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Column: Awareness of surroundings key to self-defense
After attending a self-defense class at the Sandy Springs Police Department, two things stood out in my mind. First,...
01:55 PM, Wednesday, March 13
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: For ethics reform, the party isn’t over yet
The Georgia House of Representatives has passed an ethics reform bill and has sent it on its way to the state Senate ...
12:29 PM, Thursday, March 07
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Lauretta Hannon
Column: Nosy relatives and forgiving
Q: I was at a popular new restaurant and was sitting at the bar for about two hours with a friend. We had dinner th...
12:21 PM, Thursday, March 07
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Loran Smith
Column: Remembering the past a ‘good tonic for emotions’
When you spend time on the road, you often have time to reflect, reminisce and recall the past. One of the things whi...
12:13 PM, Thursday, March 07
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Long history with Hollywood goes back 7 decades
Hollywood has encroached upon our little berg like kudzu. Film crews and their legions of trucks fill our neighborhoo...
11:48 AM, Thursday, March 07
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Special / Jeff Roffman Photography<br> Steve Martin (red suit) and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Saturday at the Symphony Gala.
Column: Martin, Rangers wow Symphony Gala
I have never been a huge bluegrass music fan. I listen to mostly rock and roll and some pop. In early 2001 I caught b...
11:45 AM, Sunday, March 03
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: What school teachers make is more than money
My recent observations on the lack of respect given public school teachers in Georgia engendered a lot of responses, ...
04:00 PM, Thursday, February 28
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Loran Smith
Column: Roy Roberts has deep UGA roots
One of Georgia’s most loyal basketball season-ticket buyers over the years descended from an ardent Bulldog family, b...
03:28 PM, Thursday, February 28
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Recent Comments

« K. Kemp wrote on Friday, May 24 at 12:32 PM »
Beautiful thought: "a school is not a business." However, wit...
« ThatsJustPeachy wrote on Thursday, May 23 at 10:44 AM »
I think regular opossums are much cuter than that mascot.
« Phil Ketron wrote on Wednesday, May 22 at 08:09 PM »
Looking forward to your achievements both on and off the field...
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And Swade is my son,I am so proud of all your achievements and...