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Rural development
      There has been much talk in recent years about the disparities between rural Alabama and urban Alabama and the fact that rural Alabama could use a little help in boosting its development and well-being. Gov.
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Second chances
      The Clarke County School Board recently hired a former Thomasville police officer to be in charge of the alternative school in Grove Hill. Superintendent of Education Gerald Stephens recommended Carey Clayton and said he would do a good job.
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Alabama Scene
A 'sacred issue'
Bob Ingram
      It is something I have never figured out. In fact I have quit trying to figure it out. Alabamians go to the grocery story and pay as much as 10 cents or more for every dollar of items they purchase and they rarely if ever squawk. They do the same thing when they buy gasoline.
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From The Nethermost
Time to levy war tax
Jim Herod
      Almost a year ago, I wrote in The Clarke County Democrat that I thought it would be a mistake to pull the troops out of Iraq immediately. We went into Iraq for numerous reasons. These reasons have been recounted in the press: some denied, some accomplished, some mistaken. Whatever were the r...
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