Letter to the editor
Roads belong to the public
      I hope I misinterpreted the meaning of your headline. Bicyclists belong on public roads and highways, along with pedestrians and motor vehicles. Roads do not belong to motorists, or any other group of users, they belong to the public.
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Thirty- something speaks
Education, not just from the playground
Mike Maddock
      I learned just about everything I ever needed to know about cabbage patches and stork deliveries in the first grade on a playground. Between games of chase and kickball, and while I was hanging upside down on the monkey bars, my fellow classmates and I imparted wisdom upon each other like we were unlocking the mysteries of some secret society.
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Bob Ford's Call the Cops!
Another life- saving pet story
      Last week we wrote about a German shepherd saving the life of a man who'd collapsed in his apartment. This week we've learned of yet another critter who came to the rescue in a situation that surely would have ended the life of a Colorado toddler.
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It's not a criticism, it's an observation.
Feeling the pain of plants
Mike Cox
      I had lived in Chattanooga about five years when Randy showed up. He came from Alabama, didn't have a banjo, but we had mutual friends. The other phone techs were distrustful at first and thought he was a management spy sent to infiltrate the fine, dues paying, hard working union they belonged to. In truth he was just a little quirky and, therefore, suspect.
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