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Mike Bennett is a Spring Hill retiree and former bargaining chairman of United Auto Workers Local 1853. E-mail him at bennett6520@yahoo.com.

It would appear Sen. Barack Obama and Columbia’s Mayor Bill Gentner have at least one thing in common. Sen. Obama couldn’t remember the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ever giving a hate America sermon over the past 20 years.
Mayor Gentner was “never once disappointed” with the efforts of local business leaders and the Maury Alliance in recruiting [...]

It would appear Sen. Barack Obama and Columbia’s Mayor Bill Gentner have at least one thing in common. Sen. Obama couldn’t remember the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ever giving a hate America sermon over the past 20 years.
Mayor Gentner was “never once disappointed” with the efforts of local business leaders and the Maury Alliance in recruiting [...]

Over the past five months we have watched and listened as the plethora of presidential candidates “debated” to win the favor of the Democratic and Republican faithful in the state primaries and caucuses.
Nearly 35 million “Democrats” and 20 million “Republicans have spoken and the majority of elected and super delegates have presume ably made their [...]

Too many generals with nothing to do but look forward to the next war can’t be good for Maury County.
Maybe we could convert this destructive force into something positive by having the historical society place a series of historical markers around the county to mark the numerous battlefields once littered with causalities and the lost [...]

They say, knowledge is power and that power is the ability to act for effect.
The recent surge of Daily Herald letters to the editor regarding future Maury County economic growth suggests a real knowledge gap of what is or is not happening.
It seems self-evident that disposable income and good-paying jobs go hand in hand. To [...]

April is child abuse awareness month, and of all the world’s problems today, none is more important. Malachi 4-6 says “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
This growing child abuse [...]

One begins to wonder how many competitive advantages non-profit hospitals need after reading of State Sen. Bill Ketron’s sponsoring a bill that allows them to formulate strategic plans and marketing strategies in secret non-public sessions.
The proposed bill has passed the house and is now scheduled for a vote in the Senate.
Ketron says the bill is [...]

On the recent Dr. Phil show involving spouse abuse, the good doctor was forced to admit that some people are addicted to conflict and prefer it over negotiations, compromise and reconciliation in resolving marital problems.
In these toxic relationships winning is more important than harmony.
This diagnosis may well fit Maury County and its municipal governments. After [...]

The Scripps Howard editorial entitled, “The Great Wall of the United States,” in the March 10 Daily Herald seemed pointless in its conclusion.
What’s not to love in a wall? Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder! A wall serves to keep things in and harm out. Walls protect us in our homes from danger [...]

“The evidence — not final, but powerfully persuasive is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. A middle class group has managed to save itself, but vast numbers of the unskilled, poorly educated city working class, the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated. A national effort is required that [...]

Maury County leaders like Ty Cobb, Bob Duncan and others are to be commended for their efforts to purchase and preserve the historic land surrounding Rippavilla. The undertaking has been attempted before and will be difficult as General Motors looks to turn a profit on the sale of this land to developers.
The irony of this [...]

Lt. Chris Atkins’ Daily Herald column of May 6 entitled, “Thoughts from the Front,” should raise concerns for us all about our strategic national policies that subject America’s finest to “cautious restraint” wars over the past 50 years.
Lt. Atkins likens his mission in Iraq to playing football where the spectators and band are on the [...]

In the Kevin Cosner movie, “Field of Dreams,” a voice in the corn whispers, “build it and they will come.” The movie was inspirational but nevertheless, a fantasy.
Mr. Greg Menza’s Dec. 26 opinion article entitled, “To grow or not to grow” presents two questions when considering the construction of a $10 million conference center in [...]

So many community needs and so little money.
On the one hand, the community needs a $6.5 million jail expansion, a multimillion-dollar convention center, raises for teachers, a new city park expansion, and now a new library; on the other hand, there is the insistence by some on maintaining political control of Maury Regional Hospital, as [...]