Legislators' gall
      Our local legislators made no bones- and certainly no apologies- for voting themselves a 62 percent pay raise in the opening week of the regular legislative session. We admire their honesty but we deplore their greed and their arrogance. A modest raise- even one of 20- 25 percent- could have been...
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Riley bows to AEA
Bob Ingram
      One of you with a better memory than I've got will surely provide me with the answer but decades ago there was a TV commercial…I think it was for a cigarette brand…in which the man said "I'd rather fight than switch." Gov. Bob Riley reversed those words in his State of the State add...
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Another shameful act
      Closer to home, we were also saddened by another scene. Monday, we made a picture of a 102-year-old woman and her 83- year-old daughter being evicted from their modest mobile home residence near Coffeeville. Edna Woodard and Rosie V. Thornton have been battling for years over the ownership of the...
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Entirely too much money
Editor's Notes Jim Cox
      Some folks struggle from paycheck to paycheck, just getting by paying for groceries and living expenses. Others have money to burn and are often willing to do just that. I suppose it has always been that way but the disparities between the rich and the poor seem greater now than ever.
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Famous Quotes
      "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." Thomas Jefferson "If you can DREAM it, you can DO it!" Walt Disney "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy in...
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