Clayton News Daily | News for Monday, September 8, 2003

There's a star kid in all of us - Trina Trice

A poor, Canadian teenager's dirty little secret has been making the rounds on the Internet.

Make your home a stimulating place - R.H. Joseph

Regular readers know me to be a humble man. Nevertheless, self-effacing though I may be, I'd like to take this historically significant moment, when Georgia once again ranks below even Mississippi and Alabama on the SAT scores, to speak directly to those who tell me I use too many big words.

National Literacy Week kicks off

By Clay Wilson

Last Week's Poll

Question: Do you have plans to commemorate Sept. 11?

Media kiss good sense (and taste) goodbye - Clay Wilson

Sometimes it's almost easy for me to see why other countries hate the U.S.

Superintendent search tops tonight's board meeting

By Trina Trice

Qualification begins today

By Ed Brock

Another one bites the dust - April Avison

Journalists have always been thoroughly interested in other people's lives and I'll admit I enjoy my share of gossip.

Leaping into a quarter-life crisis - Rob Felt

Morgan carefully nestled his gin and canned-mandarin-orange-syrup cocktail down in the wet mulch. Watching in mock horror, Mike and I saw him stumble toward the swing set, take a seat, and prepare seriously to attempt what we had only jokingly goaded him into trying. I took a nervous look around my apartment complex for anyone peering out their window wondering what a bunch of drunk 20-somethings were doing in the middle of the night on the playground. Kicking awkwardly with a determined look on his face he got the swing going about seven or eight feet off the ground before he let go.