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What can improve employment rates in Cherokee?
by Ashley Fuller/Cherokee Tribune Staff Writer
February 01, 2010 02:28 PM | 2 2 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
During his State of the Union speech Wednesday, President Barack Obama put forth a plan for creating more jobs. He pushed lawmakers to make passing a jobs bill a priority and proposed a new tax cr...
How should the school board cut its budget?
by Kristal Dixon/Cherokee Tribune Staff Writer
January 22, 2010 03:11 PM | 4 4 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Not expecting a windfall of revenue, the Cherokee County school board is considering making possible adjustments to class sizes and cuts in art, music, physical education and special education prog...
How should the state government cut waste?
by Ashley Fuller/Cherokee Tribune Staff Writer
January 22, 2010 03:05 PM | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
After three years of effort, state Rep. Charlice Byrd (R-Woodstock) could finally see her proposal pass. In 2007, she introduced the Georgia Government Accountability Act. It would create a sunset...
State legislature convenes
January 12, 2010 03:02 PM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Cherokee County’s state legislators have joined their counterparts from around the state in convening the General Assembly. Local legislators say the top issue will be the budget, as they must bal...
What do you think of Cherokee County’s upcoming city elections?
October 15, 2009 05:08 PM | 5 5 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Voters living in Canton, Nelson and Woodstock will head to the polls on Nov. 3 to decide several city elections. Canton voters will head to Canton City Hall to decides races for Ward 1 between Dr....
Keep your thumbs on the wheel
by Kristal Dixon/Cherokee Tribune Staff Writer
February 01, 2010 02:25 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Nothing annoys me more than a texting driver. I know this seems weird, coming from a 20-something reporter coming of age in a wired world. But there are very few things that get under my skin and ...
What can end inappropriate teacher-student contact?
by Barbara P. Jacoby/Cherokee Tribune Managing Editor
January 22, 2010 03:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
A second Creekland Middle School teacher has been arrested for allegedly making sexual contact with a student. In the new case, a male special education teacher is accused of molesting a 15-year-o...
Cherokee County legislators’ bills
January 12, 2010 03:02 PM | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
While Cherokee County’s state legislators are focused on balancing the state budget during the new session, they also are proposing some bills of their own: Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-...
Media should back
help for military families
by Laura Armstrong
Columnist
August 31, 2009 01:35 PM | 2 2 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
For seven years, Sean Hannity of the FOX News Channel has staged summer concerts in support of the Freedom Alliance Foundation, a Virginia-based non-profit founded by Lt. Col. Oliver North that hel...
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