Alabama Scene
Polls tell story on Iraq
      Via the magic of e-mail I received this week the results of two polls done by my buddy Dr. Gerald Johnson of the Capitol Survey Research Center and neither of them bode well for the Republican Party in Alabama.
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Our Opinions
Good news starts '07
      Just weeks into the new year, there's plenty of good economic news for the area. Three great stories appeared just last week. Toddtown native Richard Pugh is the CEO of a new plastic injection molding plant that will locate in Thomasville. The $8 million plant will be built in the new South Indus...
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Replacing Tutwiler
      And speaking of progress, we must comment on Thomasville Mayor Sheldon Day's efforts to secure a new women's prison facility for the Thomasville area. Word is out that the aged and deteroriating Tutwlier Prison for Women in Wetumpka must be replaced. Prison Commissioner Richard Allen has said he w...
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Great Quotes
         " If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets!"
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      The Editorial Pages are reserved for opinion. Opinions of the newspaper are expressed in editorials labeled as such. Other materials on the pages express opinions that may or may not reflect the opinions of the newspaper. The Democrat welcomes letters to the editor, columns and other matters of op...
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Editor's Notes
Naming Thomasville
      Thomasville is one of the region's fastest growing communities. The city is just over 100 years old and the story of its birth and naming is an interesting one. The town starting developing in mid-1887 in a swampy bottom where the new Mobile and Birmingham Railway was pushing northward from Mobil...
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Another View
Opposes chairman change
      The announcement made by Clarke County Commision Chairman Paul Bradford at the Jan. 8 meeting that a study is wanted to look at the rotation of the chairmanship of the commission took me by surprise. I was even more surprised one week later to receive in my box at the commission office a proposed b...
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Gone South
School sicknesses
      This is the time of year that teachers dread. This is the time of year that a classroom turns into an incubator for just about every disease known to mankind. Elementary school, high school, college, all the same. In they come, snot-nosed and germ-laden.
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Inside the Statehouse
Campaign reform needed
      One of the things that is obvious to astute observers of the political system is how pervasive the abuse of PAC to PAC campaign contributions has proliferated. Just when you thought it could not get any worse it has this past year. In order to have any semblance of a campaign disclosure law in Ala...
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