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Chaotic start for transportation board

What do you get when you hand 19 politicians $200 million a year for transportation improvements in Hampton ...

Columnists

Why are we blind to our education system?

It is easy to pick on our education system. With the vast majority of the power centrally located ...

Columnists

Hugh Camp announces major mill expansions

On Thursday, Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. Chairman Hugh Camp announced a $35 million expansion program for the Franklin ...

Columnists

Reducing life to math

We can measure the speed of the earth’s elliptical rotation around the sun and thus determine its exact ...

Columnists

Nowhere left to hide

Franklin’s city council, for whatever reason, has to this point made the collective decision to avoid taking a ...

Columnists

The Old Man and the Pea

“The tragedy of old age,” Jane said, “is not that one is old, but that one is young.” ...

Columnists

Uninvited guests

Political analysts have cited the debate over immigration reform as one of the major reasons House Majority Leader ...

Cain Madden

And they are airborne

Jeff Turner and I spent the morning of the 17th on the Blackwater River. It was a slightly ...

Cain Madden

You can’t take the sky from me

Look at the smile on that face. Amazingly enough, it was probably the most peace I had felt ...

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Human/smartphone wedding vows

We are gathered here today, in the presence of many witnesses, to join together in matrimony these two. ...

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