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Effective programs needed to combat high dropout rate
The high school dropout rate for black males is as high as 70 percent in some urban areas. Overall, for males and females, it’s around 50 percent, yet there are programs out there that are far mo...
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DeKalb’s executive office has no use for transparency
DeKalb County residents have been hoping that the Vernon Jones years of abuses in county government procurement, executive arrogance, insider double dealing, and government by night light were dim...
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Gas station glut, South River on minds of our readers
Editor’s Note: Here are comments on recent stories posted on our Web site, www.CrossRoads News.com. Iva Ben Hadd wrote on Thursday, Aug. 26 at 01:28 a.m.: DeKalb Commissioners love gas stations....
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SACS query to school system similar to Clayton mandates
Local news organizations reported recently on a letter that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ) sent to the DeKalb County School System. The group ordered DeKalb to respond t...
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Common sense should tell you to stay out of South River
Much has been said recently about irresponsibility of civic leaders and politicians concerning pollution in the South River that flows through southern DeKalb, and the citizens who say they were n...
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‘I didn’t know’ position is unacceptable
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Reading the CrossRoadsNews Aug. 7 front-page article regarding DeKalb County elected and governmental officials ducking residents’ concerns revealed issues far more telling about how residents and ...
Coverage helps spur activism
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I would like to thank Jennifer Ffrench Parker for her efforts to distribute the gospel about the pollution of the South River in DeKalb County. Your newspaper’s efforts have spearheaded community o...
Stronger warnings needed on South River
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I enjoyed the article “Access to Nasty River Denied – DeKalb’s signs skirt pollution, but carry threat” in the July 31 CrossRoadsNews. However, to say DeKalb authorities are skirting pollution is...
Gas stations crowding Covington Highway
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Presently there are eight gas stations on Covington Highway and Redan Road to Wesley Chapel Road. On Aug. 10, the DeKalb Board of Commissioners voted to add a ninth. Those voting for another gas ...
Billy McKinney taught me how to live, love, cry
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Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from former 4th District U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s speech at the funeral of her father, former state Rep. Billy McKinney. Thank you all for being here with us t...

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