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Helpful advice for grads
Well it’s finally that time high school seniors all over the country have been waiting for. Graduation! For the seniors at Columbia Academy, Columbia High School and East Marion and West Marion h...
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Memories of Mom
A few years ago, I didn’t think I’d ever want to celebrate Mother’s Day again. On Sept. 12, 2005, my mother passed from her life on this Earth. The following year, bombarded by Mother’s Day adve...
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Newspaper time flies
Time flies when you’re having fun. But it seems to soar at the speed of light when you are publishing a twice-weekly newspaper. If you have ever been in the business you know exactly what I mean ...
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Yankee schooled
I stood on some of the most sacred ground of the Confederacy Saturday and had a chance to reflect on history and compose a few thoughts. You see, as a Northerner, a Yankee all my life, I’d never h...
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Relay against cancer
We’ve all heard those stories from our grandparents that started off, “When I was your age.” They are usually followed with “we walked to school barefooted in the snow” or “it took days, sometimes...
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Talking to yourself
Do you ever find yourself talking to yourself? Sure, I’ll admit I do. You might see me walking through the grocery store when I forget my list muttering things like “cat food, butter, cheese … et...
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Kindergarten salute
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When most people think of graduation, high school or college commencement ceremonies come to mind. In today’s pages of The Columbian-Progress, we, along with numerous advertisers, rec...
Music makes the world go ’round
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As a former high school marching band member, I can relate to the lofty task Columbia High School band member Adam Weatherford faces. Weatherford was recently selected as the first-ever drum major...
Growing up
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It used to be that the conversations between my son and I revolved around toys and games. A collage of photos at my house shows my son, Brian, at around age 5 playing with a new Hot Wheels set. F...
Maw Maw ‘lived’ life
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She was wearing a mauve colored dress with her Sunday school pin on her lapel and the diamond earrings she wore to my wedding. She once told Momma that it was her going away dress. She looked peace...
Mega Millions mania
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Like many folks last week, I became curious when the Mega Millions Jackpot reached more than $500 million. For fun on Friday night, before the drawing, I headed down Mississippi Hwy. 35 across the...
Accident changes life
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It was a hot muggy day in June of 1996. A 15-minute summer thunderstorm had just passed through the area and steam could be seen rising from the hot asphalt. It resembled the steam that hurries off...
national opinions
Facebook debut is modest, high volumes cause problems

In this image provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla)Facebook Inc shares fizzled on their first day of trade on the Nasdaq, erasing early gains of as much as 18 percent to trade close to their initial public offering price.


Fri May 18 11:13:34 UTC 2012
Advice to would-be Romney running mates: Run for the hills

FILE - In this May 11, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company in Charlotte, N.C. The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of questions about President Barack Obama's birth certificate be far behind? (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Nothing is easier to mock in politics right now than the apparent reluctance of leading Republicans to sign on as Mitt Romney’s second banana. A few weeks ago, Jon Stewart summarized the way that Rob Portman was plugging his Senate colleague Marco Rubio, who in turn was passing the baton to Jeb Bush, with the line, “Doesn’t anyone want the rock in crunch time?”


Fri May 18 10:17:12 UTC 2012
John Edwards facing toughest vote of his life

John Edwards Facing Toughest Vote of LifeJohn Edwards is facing the biggest vote of his life as the case against the former president candidate was given to the North Carolina jury this morning.


Fri May 18 11:27:17 UTC 2012