VINEMONT — State Treasurer Kay Ivey has notified families who purchased Alabama Pre-Paid Affordable College Tuition Contracts (PACT) that the fund is in financial trouble. Contracts now may be at risk for default by 2013. It is the legal and moral responsibility for the Alabama Legislature to fund the PACT program for the 48,000 current participants. If you have a PACT contract, join Save Alabama PACT at savealabamapact.com.
A local meeting to support PACT funding will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 15, 2009, at the Cullman Courthouse. Please attend. Alabama needs these 48,000 college-educated citizens for our community to compete in a future world economy. It is they who will be our leaders and our caretakers. They are Alabama’s future. Contact Sen. Zeb Little at 775-7707 or 734-6348; Representative James Fields at 287-0007; and Representative Jeremy Oden at 734-4236. Tell them PACT is not a Ponzi scheme for the state to defraud its citizens. Save Alabama PACT.
Mark Persall
Vinemont
Opinion
A broken PACT
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Teamwork leads to great achievements
By Dr. Jan Harris
TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More. Cullman City Schools is honored to be the only school district in the nation to receive the TEAM AWARD 2011 by the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN), Washington, DC, because of our students’ increased academic achievement due to teamwork. Our mission, in Cullman City Schools (CCS), is to work together as a team to inspire students for lifelong success through character, citizenship and scholarship.
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PLAYBACK: Will Hoge’s ‘Wreckage’ puts all the pieces together
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PLAYBACK:The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds a great summer album
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PLAYBACK: The Wallflowers saved the best for last
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Playback: Songs about ... Talking Heads
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Playback: Blind Boys of Alabama return with reassuring sound, and a few guests
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Playback: Look past the drama, give Kanye a chance
Can we get much higher?” Before this year’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the instinctive response to Kanye West’s album-opening question would had to have been “no.”
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Black Lab keep the 90s alt-rock torch burning
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Introducing Peace Orchestra
So here's Peace Orchestra. There's no reason why anyone here or anywhere should have heard of Peace Orchestra. There's no snob factor or co-opting of pop esoterica in that statement—Peace Orchestra was never big here, and most people who know and love it found it by accident. One album was all we got, not counting the inevitable various-artists remix homage paid to that one-shot landmark disc. An eponymous cd, the largely instrumental set is a slow, ethereal burn — one laden with too much energy and surface tension to dismiss as mere chill-out music. It rewards casual, volume-down background listening, but that isn't where Peace Orchestra shines. Put on the headphones or, well, turn it up, man.
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Buying local — ‘the best value’
By Rickey Kreps
The Cullman community is in the solid position that we are today because we charted our future based on what we could do for ourselves. Take for example the foresight to purchase land and develop the industrial parks — not with a handout but with local funds. Responsible budgeting and expenditures prevented our community from taking on long term debts that we could not pay. We’re now hearing from our legislators in both Montgomery and Washington DC that severe belt tightening is on the horizon. We’ll need to figure out ways to do more for ourselves. - More Opinion Headlines
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