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Ken Stanford

Contributing Editor
Ken  Stanford
Ryan: Don't interfere with legalized medical pot
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says the federal government shouldn't interfere with states that have legalized medical marijuana.
1:20PM ( 12 years ago )
Obama says US not a nation in decline
President Barack Obama on Saturday pronounced Republicans "dead wrong" in calling America a country in decline, offering a rebuttal to the "naysayers" who drew attention to the nation's staggering debt and anemic job growth.
1:14PM ( 12 years ago )
As Obama, Romney look for an edge, jobless intrude
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney, their contest defined anew by joblessness, are seeking to frame the campaign on their own terms. Romney was concentrating on the economy while Obama sought to play to his strengths, with top aides all but daring their challenger to engage in a debate over Medicare.
11:21AM ( 12 years ago )
Braselton man named to new position with GDOT
Georgia Department of Transportation District Engineer Bayne Smith announces that Shannon Giles of Braselton is now the Assistant Area Engineer for Construction in Barrow and Gwinnett Counties.
11:14AM ( 12 years ago )
NGCSU professor joins MERCURY Consortium
A chemistry professor at North Georgia College & State University has become one of only 17 professors in the country granted access to the MERCURY Super-Computing Cluster.
11:10AM ( 12 years ago )
More states challenge US anti-gay marriage law
Vermont's attorney general says the state is the latest to ask an appeals court to rule that the federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman is unconstitutional.
10:53AM ( 12 years ago )
War-weary US numbed to drumbeat of troop deaths
It was another week at war in Afghanistan, another string of American casualties, and another collective shrug by a nation weary of a faraway conflict whose hallmark is its grinding inconclusiveness.
10:46AM ( 12 years ago )
Infant, 3 others killed in northeast Okla. storms
Four people, including a young child, were killed when strong winds accompanying severe thunderstorms blew through northeastern Oklahoma, authorities said.
8:16AM ( 12 years ago )