Last week’s Courier Herald column: The Georgia General Assembly is in its final official hours for 2023, with legislators prepared to gavel out “Sine Die” on March 29th. While this will end their 40 official business days in Atlanta for the year, it’s important to understand the real schedule of the legislature. State Senators and
This week’s Courier Herald column: Bank failures were big recurring news stories just over a decade ago. The 2008 failure of Bear Stearns, then Lehman Brothers, signaled that the bubble in real estate had burst. The effects began a long cascade of regulators closing banks, peaking with 157 financial institutions closed nationally in 2010, with
This week’s Courier Herald column: Forty days of the Georgia Legislature could easily be summed up by paraphrasing Charles Dickens. It is the longest time; it is the shortest time. When the General Assembly stood at ease at the end of Thursday March 9th, they had already completed 31 of the 40 days allowed for
This week’s Courier Herald column Senator Jon Ossoff made news a few weeks ago, backing federal efforts via the Land and Water Conservation Fund to protect two sections of forest land in Northwest Georgia. As reported by Dave Williams of the Capitol Beat News Service, Senator Ossoff’s letter to the Forest Service noted the land’s
