This week’s Courier Herald column: I wanted to be in Plains Sunday morning. It had been a rough week. It’s nearing the end of a rough year. I’ve been working on a project in Southwest Georgia since spring, and this has had me traveling to and through Plains Georgia almost monthly since then. It’s been
The following is a guest Op-Ed from David Gattie, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia. I asked him to summarize the following after seeing a similar discussion he was having online in order to share with our readers. – Charlie President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that his choice to head up
Happy Monday, everyone! I erected a 9ft inflatable minion yesterday to irritate my insufferable neighbors. T’is the season! Jawja University System of Jawja to institutions of higher education: Don’t violate federal and state law–seriously. Three of the eight members in Chatham County’s delegation are associated with companies or organizations paid to provide services at the Chatham County
Georgia House of Representatives member Jeff Jones, a Republican from Brunswick, has prefiled House Bill 13 to grant tax credits to some of Georgia’s teachers. The credit would be directly related to expenses teachers incur to supply and stock their classrooms. The bill, which defines “eligible expenses” as “a necessary and ordinary expense incurred by
I am imagining the moment Burrell Ellis walks back into his old office as DeKalb CEO once again, reinstated with three weeks left in his term in office, after eight months in stir and a year of appeal time to contemplate just where to stick the shiv. How easy might it be for him to
The Dalton Daily Citizen has an article saying that Conda Goodson, a Republican candidate in the Senate District 54 special election, was unaware that the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission (formerly, the State Ethics Commission) voted 4-0 to move forward with a hearing on possible campaign finance violations. From the Daily Citizen: “The
Before adjourning for the year early Saturday morning, the U.S. Senate passed the 2017 water resources bill that provides needed funding for the Savannah River port deepening project, along with a measure that avoids a government shutdown by funding the federal government through April 28th, 2017. Formally titled the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security believes the attempt to breach the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall using A DHS IP address was due to a computer in the Department of Customs and Border Security that was improperly configured to query the Secretary of State’s professional licensing database. According
One of the key proposals from President-Elect Trump is a $1 trillion investment that would be used to repair the country’s infrastructure, and ultimately to boost the economy and add jobs. But, as Politico reports, Trump’s plan looks a lot like the stimulus proposed and implemented by President Obama early in his presidency. That concerns
A group of civil rights legal activists secured a settlement in a federal lawsuit against the Emmanuel County Board of Education on Friday, paving the way for stronger African-American representation on the county’s Board of Education. The two new seats must be majority-minority districts in line with the Voting Rights Act. Currently, 81% of Emmanuel
