Editorials

EDITORIAL: Listen to the forecasters, even when they’re wrong

A forecast — any forecast — is a guess. The more information the forecaster has to consider, the…

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EDITORIAL: How clean do you want Colquitt County to be?

Sometimes the question isn’t how good or bad you are compared to other people, it’s simply what are…

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OUR OPINION: Community owes its thanks to United Way

More than any other charity, the United Way epitomizes the team approach to solving society’s problems.

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Do your own research; make up your own mind

It’s a journalistic maxim: There are two sides to every story — and usually more.

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No fake news here

Your local newspaper is not The Fake News. Your newspaper is most definitely not The Enemy of the…

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We welcome your thoughts

At the top of today’s Rant and Rave column is a comment asking for more space for those…

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Rant and Rave is truly anonymous

No, we don’t know who wrote that Rant and Rave. Which one? Any of them that are running…

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Sometimes it’s hard to find the positive: Help us out

On April 26, The Observer received a comment criticizing us for running a series of negative rants about…

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Bad idea: Dump it

Sometimes it seems our lawmakers spend a lot of time majoring in minors. A case in point: Some…

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How do we respond?

On recent days in our Rants and Raves column, the issue of “street people” has been batted around…