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One can only pray for the family of the Albany employee who fell into the river and wonder why the employee was performing such a task in atrocious and dangerous weather.

Note to Yours Truly: The worst mistake this country ever made was back in the ’60s when the Great Society decided to pay women on welfare to have babies.

Georgia Republican congressmen who support Trump are allies of Russia and China.

Amazing to hear Trump in South Carolina tell an imaginary leader in Europe that, “You gotta pay your bills.” This from a guy famous for stiffing companies that did work for him. What a duplicitous fraud.

Does a single county or city commissioner in Lee or Dougherty have any intention or ideas about enforcing littering laws? Cities around this country make literal fortunes fining litter bugs all year ’round. Do all of you hate revenue? Or are you just lazy?

Why is Commissioner Heard in such a hurry to hire another county administrator? What happens when Mike McCoy wins his case and is reinstated?

How many illegal immigrants should we let in each year? Zero. They should come in as legal immigrants, well-vetted. This recent “bipartisan immigration bill” would have normalized illegal immigration by setting a number that could come in per day.

Maybe the good “reverend” Heard has heard that admonition about how you become who you lie with. “Lie” being the operative word in his and his cronies’ case.

Kamala as president when Joe is put out to pasture … be afraid, be very afraid.

The tiny commission chairman with the outsized ego should just admit that the job is too much for him and step down. It’s not like when you have a cult that follows you, allows you to sin without consequence, and still gives you their hard-earned money. Heard is a grifter and a liar.

When I turn to the Weather Channel during a weather event, I want to hear their details on the situation, not the NWS pre-recorded message about what might happen over and over.

Show me the money. Ford’s operating loss on EVs in 2023 exceeded its total company profit for the year. Or $64,731 on each EV sold. An industry analyst termed it an “unmitigated disaster.”

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” A thought that doesn’t enter the head of any of today’s Republicans. Try that one as a mental acuity test, Donald.

My 20-year-old stolen car was found abandoned in Callahan, Fla., and I was notified of this not by law enforcement but by a paint and body business that towed the car. If I don’t pay $644 in towing fees, they will sell it at a public auction. Good luck with that; the car ain’t worth that much. That liberal man

Biden has created more jobs in this country than Trump moved overseas. Check the facts.

Just went to the online Albany Herald, clicked on “Opinion,” then columnists looking for T. Gamble’s Thursday, Feb. 9 column. But what do I get? Not Feb. 9 but columns from December 2022 to April 17. Why?

We will no longer accept the things we cannot change. It is time to change that which we cannot accept.

Author

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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