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It is going to be a looonnnggggg Election year. Hopefully, that also potentially means a short legislative session for our Georgia General Assembly. Our nation's Founders had excellent foresight. In creating our republic, the Constitution requires a count of residents of these United States every 10 years. The U.S. Senate would be the upper chamber, limited to 2 members representing each state (currently capped at 100 members and 50 states). Popular election of U.S. Senators would not arrive until 1913, prior to that state legislatures or the Governor appointed Senators, as called for by their state charter or constitution. The lower chamber, the U.S. House, would be the people’s chamber, with one member apportioned roughly equal to thousands of residents of each state. The U.S. House has 435 members, including one non-voting representative of Washington, D.C., and each House member has 500,000- under 1,000,000 constituents.
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I would be completely remiss if I didn’t start my column by saying there is much to do in 2022 but my beloved Georgia BullDawgs already got something done in 2022 by winning the college football national championship last night in a Deep South slugfest of a football game.
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Dear Cameron Charles Yarbrough:
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Although it is tempting, there will be no New Year’s resolutions for this guy for 2022. At my stage in life, I don’t resolve stuff anymore. If I did, I would resolve not to lose weight. I would resolve to eat dessert first, starting with banana pudding. If I even thought about resolving to exercise, I would resolve to lie down on the sofa and binge-watch episodes of The Andy Griffith Show until the urge went away. I am not into resolutions that won’t last past the fourth quarter of the Boola-Boola Tasty Noodle Bowl, Instead, I am into hope. Hope springs eternal.
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I appreciate the opportunity afforded me, as well as the other citizens at last Tuesday night’s BOC meeting, to discuss the much-needed county support of Putnam General Hospital. Four minutes only provided enough time to tell the background of how important PGH is to the citizens of Putnam. I told you part of the story of my family’s interest, and how important my dad felt the need for us to give back a portion of our blessings to help meet the needs of Putnam’s citizens. Four minutes did not allow enough time to tell you that his first wife, the mother of my sister Allene, died at childbirth due to lack of proper medical care. Nor my mother and father having to carry a 6-year-old out of the county to a hospital when gangrene threatened not only my foot and leg, but my life, after a drunk driver at a red light in town rammed his vehicle into the back of the pickup where I sat.
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