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Nov 23, 20179 min read

Kumbaya! The Planet's Thanksgiving Rant

V I E W P O I N T S Jim Bowen died this year. He was big in the New Salem community, where he had been a Boy Scout leader time out of...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Oct 6, 20171 min read

Letter to the Editor

V I E W P O I N T S Letter to the Editor Dr Chad McDill and Chiropractic Care would like to personally thank everyone who made Children’s...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 14, 20171 min read

Letter to the Editor: City Needs Boats

V I E W P O I N T S Letter to the Editor Dear Planet: Just to clarify some info here (July 12 Dade Planet article about July 10 Trenton...

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Editorial: Shamey, Shamey to the Trenton City Commission

Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 13, 20175 min read

Editorial: Shamey, Shamey to the Trenton City Commission

V I E W P O I N T S One of the hardest personal lessons I’ve learned in a long and sinful life is that what people say behind your back...

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Lookout Mountain Pizza Opens: Ain't (Not Neither) No Honky-Tonk

Robin Ford Wallace

Jul 7, 20175 min read

Lookout Mountain Pizza Opens: Ain't (Not Neither) No Honky-Tonk

V I E W P O I N T S Me and mah baby went honky-tonkin’ Saturday night in the wilds of rural Dade County, swillin’ likker at a speakeasy...

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Editorial: Why is the library closed on Mondays? Sit down.

Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 30, 20178 min read

Editorial: Why is the library closed on Mondays? Sit down.

V I E W P O I N T S When you run a small, independent newspaper in a rural county, people tend to call you up with random questions. Some...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 19, 20172 min read

Letter to the Editor: Puckett Accident Caused by Company's Cost-Cutting

V I E W P O I N T S Editor's Note: Early Friday morning, a Puckett EMS ambulance crashed near Berry College in Rome, killing the patient...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 15, 20171 min read

Letter To The Editor: I-59 looks like wasteland

V I E W P O I N T S Dear Dade Planet: Am I the only person in Dade who wonders why GDOT is cutting down all the trees along I-59 in the...

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Circling Around Dade: Sidewalks, Dams, Lakes and Other Kwazy Things

Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 8, 20178 min read

Circling Around Dade: Sidewalks, Dams, Lakes and Other Kwazy Things

V I E W P O I N T S There’s something about breaking your leg that makes you think deeply about walking. This is not meant to be a...

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Letter to the Editor: Sheriff's Benefit Nets $10K for Savannah's Canopy

Robin Ford Wallace

Jun 1, 20172 min read

Letter to the Editor: Sheriff's Benefit Nets $10K for Savannah's Canopy

V I E W P O I N T S Dear Editor: I am the CEO and founder, along with my wife Dori, of Savannah's Canopy. We are a ministry to foster and...

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Robin Ford Wallace

May 3, 20172 min read

On Sunday, While Planting Cucumbers...

V I E W P O I N T S Dear Planet Readers: On Sunday, while on my way down to the garden to plant cucumbers, I slipped on the rain-drenched...

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What's A Newspaper to Do When The County Commission Turns Into Caligula?

Robin Ford Wallace

Apr 10, 20179 min read

What's A Newspaper to Do When The County Commission Turns Into Caligula?

V I E W P O I N T S The spring that I had a job watering flowers at garden centers, I made friends with a Walmart employee who complained...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Apr 9, 20173 min read

Open Letter to the Dade County Commission

V I E W P O I N T S Editor's Note: This is a letter from Dade resident Bob Venable that he sent to the Dade County Commission, and which...

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Celebrate Your Community at the Dade Festival of Life on Saturday

Robin Ford Wallace

Apr 4, 20175 min read

Celebrate Your Community at the Dade Festival of Life on Saturday

The "Color Run" from the first Festival of Life in 2014. This year's 5-K will be less colorful. All that purple was fun, says organizer...

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Dade To Pass Small Business Abolition Ordinance at Thursday Meeting

Robin Ford Wallace

Apr 1, 20174 min read

Dade To Pass Small Business Abolition Ordinance at Thursday Meeting

The Dade County Commission at its regular monthly meeting on Thursday will vote on what is being hailed as the SBA--"Small Business...

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Sin, Holy Fat-Wah and the Dade County Commission For The Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of V

Robin Ford Wallace

Jan 9, 20174 min read

Sin, Holy Fat-Wah and the Dade County Commission For The Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of V

V I E W P O I N T S Today, brothers and sisters, we will talk about sin. Thursday's Dade County Commission meeting left me itching to...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Dec 27, 20162 min read

Wooten Thanks Community for Support

V I E W P O I N T S Letter to the Editor Thank you to all the local merchants, shoppers and those who participated in Dade Discount Days...

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The Stars My Destination! (Can You Spot Me a Fiver for Gas?) Fund Drive for The Planet

Robin Ford Wallace

Dec 9, 20166 min read

The Stars My Destination! (Can You Spot Me a Fiver for Gas?) Fund Drive for The Planet

Cartoon by Jerry Wallace V I E W P O I N T S When I was a starry-eyed kid smitten with science fiction, I had this notion I could build...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Nov 3, 20161 min read

Letter to the Editor: Thanks, Dade!

Dear Planet: Cindy Cross and I would like to thank the community for their donations of coats, blankets and monetary funds for the coat...

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Analysis: A Rundown of the Nov. 8 Ballot Measures

Robin Ford Wallace

Nov 1, 20167 min read

Analysis: A Rundown of the Nov. 8 Ballot Measures

V I E W P O I N T S The 2016 presidential election has been a dog-and-pony show the like of which has never been seen in these United...

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