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Believe it or not the 2012 election season is upon us. The legislature, in a cost savings measure last year, moved our primaries up to March 13. Our presidential preference primary and our regular primary will be on the same day, which is less than six weeks away.
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Do you hate “rich” people? I’m not really sure who is rich, though President Obama and those who agree with his progressive political speeches define the rich as “millionaires and billionaires.”
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Piedmont is home to good people. It is home to people who look after one another when the storms come, who call on sick neighbors and lend a few dollars to a friend when paydays get too far apart.
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Ever since Alabama’s creation as a state in 1819 there has existed a political rivalry between North and South Alabama. This tug of war has mostly been played out in the legislative arena. The North Alabamians have perceived, and rightfully so, that they have generally gotten the short end of the stick.
Historically, this advantage has gone to the area of the state known as the Black Belt.
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The Constitution authorizes presidents to fill vacancies in the executive branch without advice and consent of the Senate when the Senate is not in session. That was a non-brainer during the first hundred years or so of our federal government when Congress met for only a few months each year.
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As I write, future Communist Party members flood across our borders illegally. Our immigrant hospitality funds are hopelessly depleted.
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Sometime during the night of Nov. 6 or 7, you entered a garage on Jaybird Drive in Piedmont and stole two male cats, along with the cat carrier. One cat was 13 years old, the other was 6. They were my cats, not the lady’s that you stole them from. She was watching them for me while I was on a trip.
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The older you get you realize that old adages you heard as a child are actually accurate such as sayings like “if you have your health you have everything.”
Dec 01 11 - 11:57 AM
Have you, or someone you know, received help from the Piedmont Benevolence Center in the past year?
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