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Losing the Broadband Race

August 31st, 2007 No Comments

There is an article in the Savannah Morning News today, about television on the internet. What the writer fails to recognize is how rapidly the United States is falling behind the rest of the world in internet technology.
Americans will never want to watch much video on the web until our broadband connections improve. We […]

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Let’s Postpone Precinct Closings until 2010

May 20th, 2007 No Comments

The Chatham County Democratic Party strongly supports the position of the Savannah City Council and the Chatham County Commission that the Elections Board should postpone any closing of existing polling places until the 2010 census.
The precinct consolidations that the Elections Board is proposing will effectively disenfranchise many black and elderly voters in 2008. Many people […]

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Shame on the Savannah Morning News

January 18th, 2007 No Comments

–David Nagle
The stories about returning wounded soldiers not receiving the quality of care they deserve and were promised, are enough to make one weep. Our previous Congress heard these stories from troops and their families as early at 2005 and did nothing.

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Parallels between Lincoln and Bush overlooked

November 28th, 2006 No Comments

—Craig Perron
[This is a rebuttal to a letter in the Savannah Morning News comparing Lincoln and Bush. As a long-time history nut and baseball fan, I couldn’t resist swinging for the left-field bleachers on this one. For your amusement, if not edification.]
When history teachers compare Presidents, like Bush and Lincoln, they must […]

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