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Squawkbox – December 4, 2025
Who cares if Dougherty County has the highest tax millage rate in the state? The chairman and his fellow leeches want your votes, so they're going to give millions for unwarranted raises. Don't be fooled by the raises; pay close attention to the rising millage rate.
Squawkbox – December 2, 2025
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." -- George Orwell, "1984"
Squawkbox – November 27-29, 2025
Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows that America is aging, led by the baby boomer generation. That means there is a need for an increase in trained medical personnel. Tell me why the Department of Education would declare advanced Nursing degrees as non professional, making it more difficult for students to get aid that lowers loans needed to fund their education? Intentional incompetence or generational selection?
Squawkbox – November 25, 2025
Well said, Perry Revell. Thank you for your leadership. Life is what you make of it. Let’s all be positive today … then tomorrow.
SCOTT LUDWIG: The sin of unpardonable pardoning
There were 1,600 (ballpark) pardons for those participating in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
LETTER TO EDITOR: Dougherty County faces fiscal crisis: Tax increase or service cuts looming
A declining digest does not correct itself. It signals a community in need of new investment, new construction, new jobs, business recruitment and redevelopment of underperforming areas.
CARLTON FLETCHER: To think, it all started with sticks and stones
It started with rocks. And sticks.
YONATAN HAMBOURGER: Healing from within: The courage to begin again
Real healing starts with honesty.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ASU finally updates computer program
It looks like a lot of change is finally happening for the better at Albany State.
Squawkbox – December 4, 2025
Who cares if Dougherty County has the highest tax millage rate in the state? The chairman and his fellow leeches want your votes, so they're going to give millions for unwarranted raises. Don't be fooled by the raises; pay close attention to the rising millage rate.
Squawkbox – December 2, 2025
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." -- George Orwell, "1984"
Squawkbox – November 27-29, 2025
Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows that America is aging, led by the baby boomer generation. That means there is a need for an increase in trained medical personnel. Tell me why the Department of Education would declare advanced Nursing degrees as non professional, making it more difficult for students to get aid that lowers loans needed to fund their education? Intentional incompetence or generational selection?
Squawkbox – November 25, 2025
Well said, Perry Revell. Thank you for your leadership. Life is what you make of it. Let’s all be positive today … then tomorrow.
SCOTT LUDWIG: The sin of unpardonable pardoning
There were 1,600 (ballpark) pardons for those participating in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
LETTER TO EDITOR: Dougherty County faces fiscal crisis: Tax increase or service cuts looming
A declining digest does not correct itself. It signals a community in need of new investment, new construction, new jobs, business recruitment and redevelopment of underperforming areas.
CARLTON FLETCHER: To think, it all started with sticks and stones
It started with rocks. And sticks.
YONATAN HAMBOURGER: Healing from within: The courage to begin again
Real healing starts with honesty.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ASU finally updates computer program
It looks like a lot of change is finally happening for the better at Albany State.
