• Alabama should go for gold with charter schools
IT'S A rare day when education interests in Alabama decline an opportunity to partake of a multi-billion-dollar pot of federal money. It's even rarer for those interests to say "no" when the schools are struggling, as they are now, with across-the-board state budget cuts.

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Mr. President, this is the wrong path

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Great religion debate continues I have called to disagree with the caller who said the greatest killers in the world were atheists. Some of the worst atrocities in history, committed by two human beings, were done in the name of religion. I have a deep and strong belief in God, and I live my life the way I think he would want me to live it, but I have no use whatsoever for organized religion.

• Computers an effective weapon against crime
FOR THE modern crimefighter, a computer may be a more effective weapon than a pistol or a patrol car.

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Touching ceremony

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I saw a comment in "Sound Off" about Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and other young female country stars wearing short dresses and bumping and grinding onstage.

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This is Baldwin Sound Off, where you may speak your mind on anything you wish. Because of the large number of calls we receive, we cannot publish all the comments.

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Calling on Oprah It's so sad that this young man, Timothy Robinson, was injured. Now he has brain injuries, and his family needs help to get him to Atlanta to recover. It would be so wonderful if Oprah Winfrey would give his family a helping hand.

• When will we ever reform education?
Here we go again: Proration, proration, proration. It's the same old song in Alabama, accompanied by a symphony of arguments, finger-pointing, complaints and accusations.

• Endangered no more: The process worked
IN THE case of the brown pelican, the endangered species process has worked so well that the species isn't endangered anymore.

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Today can be the day

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Today can be the day

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Hope a restaurant comes, too I'm stoked about the maritime museum. I hope that in the design, they'll be able to put a restaurant over the water, where you can watch the ships come in and the small and large crafts on a beautiful day like today. That'd be fantastic to sit and have a meal and soak it all in.

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Inaugural film fest

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This is Baldwin Sound Off, where you may speak your mind on anything you wish. Because of the large number of calls we receive, we cannot publish all the comments.

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Religion is on its way out The real problem with this world, especially this little corner of it, is too much religion. The world would be a better place if there were no religions. The worst of them is Christianity ? 2,000 years spent imposing their views on the world and killing those who would not accept their ways. Atheism, ethical humanism and reason will bring solutions without the persecution and lies forced upon this world by religions.

• Why Alabama, Mississippi aren't on the brink
HERE'S GOOD news, as far as it goes: Alabama and Mississippi aren't teetering on the brink of economic disaster.

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Alabama could

• Regulators see the light on oysters
EVERY NOW and then, common sense prevails in Washington.

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Thanks, Coach I'd like to thank Coach Tyler Murray of Theodore for stepping up for girls' athletics. My daughter played softball at Theodore, and girls are treated unfairly. They are not equal to the guys.

• Federal regulators should re-examine fishing limits
LEGITIMATE CONCERN about overfishing appears to have devolved into excessively strict federal regulation of recreational fishing in the Gulf and other offshore waters.

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'Derelict in their responsibility' For years now, the city officials have been derelict in their responsibility in removing the overgrown lots, falling-down houses and filled-ditches in my neighborhood. We've always been told there's no money, but yet they seem to be able to come up with millions for a new museum.

• Finally, a second chance for juvenile offenders
In 1899, the first family court was established in this country to operate as a "kind and just parent" to children who commit crimes.

• GulfQuest a stimulus for Mobile
ON THE surface, a historic recession might not seem like the best time to start building a multimillion-dollar museum.

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Rheta Johnson column

• Pelicans come back on coast
People who remember driving over the Causeway in the 1960s and 1970s might reminisce today about coming to the peaceful, undeveloped Eastern Shore.

• SEX EDUCATION
In another life, I was a public school teacher. English, math and, eventually, "Skills for Adolescence" were the subjects that consumed my days along with an average of 140 seventh-graders.

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It's the good book To the Sound Off caller referring to the Bible thumpers: We don't thump our Bibles, we read 'em. Maybe you should, too, and stay out of bingo parlors and casinos. Quit pushing your ideology down other people's throats. Take your money and give it to the Waterfront Rescue Mission or to the Penelope House.

• STILL
With the arrival of Veterans Day last week, I thought of Sgt. Rivers.

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Accused shooter didn't

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Mind your business To all the Bible-thumpers opposed to gambling: I'll stay out of your church if you stay out of my bingo parlor and casinos. Quit pushing your ideology down other people's throats. Don't tell me whether I can buy a lottery ticket. I'm not going to put money into your collection plate anyway.

• Undefeated and looking like a hit
SOUTH ALABAMA should order some more of those T-shirts ? the ones that characterized the fledgling football team as "still undefeated" before it had played a game.