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  How Georgia Can Become the Model Government For The Nation
Apr 18, 2009
As our nation searches for proficient solutions to hasten economic recovery and return to sustained prosperity, Georgia is poised to become a national model for dynamic self-determination and effective governance.
  2009 Georgia Legislature: No Fanfare, Just Results
Apr 18, 2009
The 2009 Georgia General Assembly session ended quietly and without much notice by most or our state's citizens...
  Crime Fighting Improving Slowly But Surely
Apr 11, 2009
For many years Roswell has been known as one of the safest cities in the United States, and comparatively speaking, it still is; however...
  Obama’s Job Killer
Apr 4, 2009
More than anything else, business needs a predictable environment if it is to create jobs...
  Georgia’s Great Nuclear Meltdown
Apr 4, 2009
If President Obama is serious about so-called global warming and reducing carbon emissions, he would embrace safe, clean nuclear energy.
  Death in the City Room
Mar 28, 2009
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said this week it would cut its full-time news staff by another...
  Soccer: FCS Jumps To Early Lead, Beats BT
Mar 25, 2009
  No Simple Immigration Solution for Roswell
Mar 21, 2009
As a member of the Roswell City Council, I receive a quite a number of calls and emails from constituents on matters of concern to them...
  Conservatives: Can they Come Back?
Mar 21, 2009
Since the "hope and change" election of 2008, many in the media, the Democratic Party and even some center-right pundit-elites have busied themselves epitaph tapping...
  Governor's Proposed Health Care Cuts Defy Logic
Mar 14, 2009
Less than a month ago, Georgia's cash-strapped health care providers breathed a collective sigh of relief upon learning that...
  To Better Serve Georgia, the DOT Must Change
Feb 28, 2009
Over the last six years, Georgia has invested heavily in transportation improvements, yet...
  Patients of Georgia Pay Attention
Feb 28, 2009
Everyone, since we’ll all be patients eventually, needs to pay attention to the most lobbied issue before the Georgia Legislature...
  Lockwood’s New Governing Coalition
Feb 14, 2009
It took him a full two years, a revolving door of city managers, a painful and embarrassing airing of his council’s ineptitude in the press and a Las Vegas style roll of the electoral dice, but...
  Tax Assessment Caps Will Offer Property Owners Accountability 
Feb 14, 2009
Georgia’s property tax system is a broken relic of a bygone agrarian-based economy...
  The Audacity of Roswell Mayor Jere Wood
Feb 7, 2009
President Barak Obama wrote a best selling book entitled, “The Audacity of Hope.” Perhaps Roswell Mayor Jere Wood can follow suit and author a book...
  Municipal Opposition to HR-1 Gutless, Shameless
Jan 31, 2009
Republicans and some Democrats in the Georgia State House are on the verge of passing a historic...
  Emotion Trumping Objectivity in Transfer Debate
Jan 24, 2009
From day one, we at the Beacon have committed ourselves to covering high school sports in Roswell, Alpharetta and Milton. In two years...
  A Transportation Solution
Jan 17, 2009
If we are to continue Georgia’s growth and prosperity, we must solve our transportation issues for the entire state...
  The GOP Should Fight Health-Care Rationing
Jan 11, 2009
Perhaps the greatest missed opportunity of the past eight years was the chance for Republicans to fundamentally reform the...
  ­­Cogburn Woods Imbalance Should Be Addressed
Dec 20, 2008
The response to last week’s article about the elementary school redistricting process has revealed a vocal minority that is displeased with the...
  Athens Banner-Herald on Gov. Perdue’s Response to NBAF Loss
Dec 13, 2008
At least as far as Georgia's losing bid for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility is concerned, Gov. Sonny Perdue has shown he's not the kind of guy who's going to let the facts get in the way of a good excuse.
  T-Mobile: Community Cyber Bully
Dec 6, 2008
T-Mobile wants to construct a 150-foot antenna and cell tower in a residential lot in the Lake Charles neighborhood in Roswell. Never mind that the unseemly looking contraption will...
  Atlanta’s Cash Grabs Getting Obscene
Nov 15, 2008
The City of Atlanta – that bastion of spending and financial prudence, that model of efficient and economical government – now finds itself facing a daunting...
  Chambliss Right on Bailout
Nov 8, 2008

Georgia Senate Candidate Jim Martin (D), now in a likely run-off with incumbent Saxby Chambliss (R) on December 2, has made a virtual campaign...
  Vote ‘Yes’ for Libraries
Nov 1, 2008

Alpharetta is in dire need of a larger library. Roswell east of Ga. 400 is in dire need of a library. Milton, newly formed, is in dire need of a...
  Milton’s Noise Nerds Fight the Fun
Oct 25, 2008

After taking the better part of two years and a contentious election to finally enact limited sewer installation to several properties that Fulton County had approved for...
  Monson’s Folly
Oct 18, 2008

We are in the midst of perhaps the nation’s greatest economic crisis. Local businesses, fearful of the future, are laying workers off. Some have already shut their doors...
  The Roswell Storm Water Fee Fiasco
Oct 11, 2008

When is a fee not a fee? Why, when you don’t actually have to pay it, of course.
 
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