LETTERS
      Not for fame To the Editor: At the end of this month, Georgia will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day. In 1874, Georgia officially designated a day to formally honor the lives of Confederate soldiers and the sacrifices they made. The date set for this purpose was April 26th, in recognition of t...
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Seeing black and white
By JARED PUTNAM Union Sentinel Editor
      Afew weeks ago I had never even heard of Don Imus. Looking back on what has transpired since then, I get the feeling I wasn't missing out on much. His remarks about the Rutgers Women's basketball team were racist, sexist, and nothing short of a guaranteed pink slip for him. He crossed a line and d...
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Immigration anarchy
BILL O'REILLY
      My friend Geraldo Rivera and I had quite the verbal shootout the other day over the needless deaths of Allison Kunhardt, 17, and Tessa Tranchant, 16, in Virginia. Twenty-two-year-old Alfredo Ramos, an illegal alien from Mexico, killed the girls when he slammed into their car while drunk.
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READER Q & A
      Question: I read something in another paper that said newspapers are sometimes guilty of using a tragic story from another state just to fill up space. Does that really happen? Answer: That is a very good, relevant question in light of the national tragedy that took place this week.
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What to believe?
By RAINER ARNOLD Union Sentinel Publisher
      In recent weeks I have been inundated with material and information of a variety of topics and I can honestly tell you I did not know what to believe. Let me give you some examples of the issues that I have struggled with. The first thing that comes to mind is my computer. And, since I actually li...
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      We have been waiting almost nine months for the phone call. When it came, wouldn't you know that Buddy would be no where to be found. "We are on the way to the hospital," Tori said excitedly. "The doctors are going to try to hold off until 2:00 to give grandparents time to arrive." I looked at my ...
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