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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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Beautiful Buckhead mansion undone by reality
A few weeks ago, a loyal reader sent me an email about a peculiar house on Dumbarton Road in Buckhead. I had heard th...
10:37 AM, Wednesday, September 05
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: Skeeter Skates weighs in on the Middle East situation
I was in the middle of preparing a Power Point presentation for you on why House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge,...
03:04 PM, Wednesday, August 29
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Brian T. Clark is managing editor of Neighbor Newspapers and a sixth-generation Georgian. He and his wife, Heather, live in Alpharetta.
Column: Honey Boo Boo, Dr. Phil and newspapers
Last week, someone asked me how the newspaper was faring during this difficult time for print media. As you can imagi...
08:41 PM, Tuesday, August 28
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Officer Larry Jacobs - Sandy Springs Police
Column: Parking Deck Safety
Parking decks can be a scary place, especially older parking decks that have inadequate lighting, decks that are dirt...
06:56 PM, Thursday, August 23
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: Charter school amendment debate gets ugly quickly
I knew it was going to get ugly, but I didn’t know it would get this bad this quickly. I am talking about the constit...
05:50 PM, Wednesday, August 22
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Dale Cardwell
Column: I trust J.C. Penney
For years, I waited to see what would happen if a store advertised all of its products at the lowest price possible —...
05:42 PM, Wednesday, August 22
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: One record shop outlasted them all
Apparently I am waiting for the return of Turtles Records and Tapes. Never mind the complete digitization of the mus...
05:16 PM, Wednesday, August 22
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Everett Catts
Column: Memories of Rich's
(UPDATED AT 11:45 A.M. MONDAY WITH CORRECTED NAME OF BOOK) This afternoon my wife Maggie and I attended a lecture a...
06:47 PM, Sunday, August 19
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Sandy Springs Police Officer Larry Jacobs
Bullying: What is it, what are the results and what to do
What is bullying? Anyone who has ever been picked on knows what bullying is. We are talking about mental or physical...
03:32 PM, Friday, August 17
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: Thanks to you, speaker might be ready to unload gr...
Are you sitting down, dear reader? Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, has announced that he will prop...
04:29 PM, Wednesday, August 15
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Dale Cardwell
Column: Now you can stay home longer
I remember as a child going with my mother to visit “shut-ins” at nursing homes. I count them among the saddest exper...
04:14 PM, Wednesday, August 15
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Old plantation home holds a special place
When people think of our city, I dare say many conjure visions of Tara, the stately home of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone ...
03:48 PM, Wednesday, August 15
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Angela Spencer
Third time’s the charm for license renewal
Waking up at 5:45 a.m. on a Saturday is not my idea of fun, but it’s necessary to take certain precautions when going...
05:35 PM, Thursday, August 09
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: School superintendent’s endorsement of Chip Rogers...
What in the world was State School Superintendent John Barge thinking when he endorsed the reelection campaign of Sta...
03:07 PM, Wednesday, August 08
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Dale Cardwell
Column: Message to Georgia’s so-called leaders: We don’t t...
My very first car was a Pontiac Sunbird. It pretty much got me from A to B without a lot of fuss. A couple years late...
02:56 PM, Wednesday, August 08
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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...