Here, at The Real Story, we value your opinion! We ask that you share your point of view with us, by participating in our daily poll. Please note that no personal identifying information will be available to the public.   Results from March 17, 2012 Q: Which college sports do you follow? Football – 50% Men’s [...]

Here, at The Real Story, we value your opinion! We ask that you share your point of view with us, by participating in our daily poll. Please note that no personal identifying information will be available to the public.   Results from March 16, 2012 Q: Do you plan to attend any Spring Pilgrimage events, later [...]

Here, at The Real Story, we value your opinion! We ask that you share your point of view with us, by participating in our daily poll. Please note that no personal identifying information will be available to the public.   Results from March 15, 2012 Q: How concerned are you about crime in Columbus? very concerned [...]

Here, at The Real Story, we value your opinion! We ask that you share your point of view with us, by participating in our daily poll. Please note that no personal identifying information will be available to the public.   Results from March 14, 2012 Q: Should Cal-City Grocery, in Caledonia, be allowed to sell [...]

Here, at The Real Story, we continuously strive to provide you with the highest-quality commentary and news coverage possible. However, we realize that, in order to be truly successful, we must be responsive to what you, our readers, want to see, both in the print edition and on this website. We ask that you help us [...]

Interim Chief Selvain McQueen, who was voted in 4 to 2.  Charlie Box and Bill Gavin voted against it.  We apologize for the inaccurate information provided earlier.  Congratulations, Chief McQueen! Joseph B. St. John

With the 2011 elections in the book, The Real Story would like to add the following reflections from watching the election results in the Lowndes County Courthouse: No matter how wide the margin of victory, the winner always sweats. Watching the candidates, many of whom had commanding leads, it was still obvious that no one [...]

The November 8, 2011 elections ended with no surprises. The County residents have spoken, and it appears that they are satisfied with the way things are running.  Any changes needed in their local government ended with Frank Ferguson’s defeat in the District 2 Supervisor’s primary. Even newcomers A. Pritchard Kizer, County Prosecuting Attorney and Mike [...]

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As mentioned in yesterday’s column, it is very important that you vote today. We have to have an educated voter block to ensure we are governed accordingly. Unfortunately, not everyone feels that way and are making sure that they try to keep the masses in the dark. One such political flyer was mailed to many [...]

Tomorrow is November 8, 2011. Election day! The Real Story encourages you to vote. Why is it important that we vote? Somewhere, some place tomorrow, someone is going to load up vans full of people, carry them to an election site, tell them who to vote for and then carry (drive) them back home. The [...]

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