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A time to be thankful
      Thanksgiving is a Rodney Dangerfield-like holiday - it gets no respect. Halloween has become a bigger holiday than Thanksgiving and by the time November rolls around, Christmas decorations are going up everywhere, Christmas open houses are underway and the season is going full blast.
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Defending voting rights
      A House Judiciary subcommittee was the site of a sad spectacle the other day: John Tanner, who heads the Justice Department's voting section, trying to explain offensive, bigoted comments he made about minority voters. It was a shameful moment that crystallized the need for immediate steps to figh...
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Alabama vs. Auburn
Inside the Statehouse
      It's Alabama vs. Auburn weekend in Alabama. It is the fiercest of college football rivalries. It is the game of the year. It is a state civil war that divides friends and even families. It is bragging rights for the entire year.
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Here's the beef on DA's cow crash
      Dear Editor, In response to your article in last week's edition of The Clarke County Democrat, it is with great sadness that I must inform you that the cow did not make it; nor did the other cow that was struck by Darren Deas, son of Warren Deas-owner of both cows. Since your article appeared in ...
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From Our Files
      70 years ago "After approving unification of the three branches of Methodism and condemning the state liquor store plan in Alabama, the one hundred ninety-fifth session of the Alabama Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, came to an end at Marianna, Florida Sunday…A. G.
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