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HUNTER LOGGINS: Small businesses deserve our thanks on Small Business Saturday

Small Business Saturday is the day we thank the local shops, restaurants, and service providers that give our communities their character and keep our Main Streets alive.

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Squawkbox – November 22, 2025

I’m still here, and I’m still advocating for a senior school tax exemption. There is a song we sing in church, and one part of the lyrics is, “If I’m not dead He’s not done”. There is a new strategic action on the way, and I’m going to need assistance. Watch for more information coming soon. Sherry Stith, a.k.a “Bulldog.”

Squawkbox – November 20, 2025

What is so hard about closing the door on a mailbox? Just a lazy a%# postal worker.

Squawkbox – November 18, 2025

While the inept Dougherty County commissioners will not even bring up property tax relief for seniors, the state of Florida is looking seriously at doing away with all property tax in the state. Not just school tax, not just for seniors, but for everyone. Hello, Panama City.

Squawkbox – November 15, 2025

Georgia's conceal and carry (law) in a degraded society results in many mis developed minds, emotions, education, culture and conscience to carry and use guns everywhere, at any trivial provocation, now over chicken fingers. How safe does that make you feel?

CARLTON FLETCHER: Remembering an Albany past that’s all but disappeared

Albany today has grown old.

GARY WISENBAKER: Democrats shouldn’t pop the champagne corks yet

Democrats swept three states, but their winners were elected by somewhere between 17% and 31% of the people eligible to vote.

WAYNE FOWLER: The powerful message of freedom from hate

How hypocritical it would be to receive so great an eternal blessing, then to deny forgiveness to a fellow traveler made in God’s image.

STACEY ABRAMS: The assault on rural hospitals is an assault on all

One doesn’t often connect the dots between hospital closures and the end of democracy, but the signs here are unmistakable.

Squawkbox – November 13, 2025

I see now why Trump is able to convince these dunces who call themselves conservatives that he's doing good for the country: One sent a squawk to this forum saying Biden and Schumer are ruining our country. He's right in one respect: The country is headed toward ruin. But he obviously is not aware that his master Trump has been in office for the last nine months. Biden's been nowhere to be seen. Typical Trump supporter … blame anyone else. 

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