This week’s Courier Herald column: I’m now among the roughly 700,000 Georgians who have become a Covid statistic. I’m one of the lucky ones in that I remain here, relatively healthy, with the ability to write this piece. I’m also lucky in that when I began to notice I wasn’t feeling well on the morning
This week’s Courier Herald column: The first week of January was a long year in Georgia politics. The most expensive Senate elections in history flipped two seats and control of the entire Senate. A protest over the result of November’s elections became an occupation of the Nation’s capitol building. Along the way many of Georgia’s
This week’s Courier Herald column: When I enrolled at the University of Georgia way back in 1987 and was told to pick a major, I chose economics. I had no intention of it being my real major, but it was among the choices on the path to a B.B.A. and I liked it in high
This week’s Courier Herald column: The calendar tells us we’re upon a new year. The routine says we’re still stuck in the present. It’s up to each of us, individually, to reconcile the two. The Great Time Out started in March with “two weeks to flatten the curve”. The calendar tells us that two weeks
This week’s Courier Herald column: This has been the longest year ever. It doesn’t just seem that way. It was a leap year, so 2020 gave us an extra day back in February to make it official by tying the record of 366 days. It seems longer. A pandemic, social unrest, economic turmoil, and a
This week’s Courier Herald column: There was good news out of the Governor’s office this week, as Brian Kemp sent word that state revenues for November were up 8.3% from one year ago. For the first five months of this fiscal year, Georgia’s tax revenues are up 5.7% compared to last year. This is, unquestionably,
This week’s Courier Herald column: We’re now well into the holiday season and, thankfully and mercifully, the home stretch of 2020. It’s been a year of a pandemic, social unrest, and an election that refuses to end. Many of us will not be sad to see this year conclude. I have no issue with the
This week’s Courier Herald column: Those in charge of educating our children have been playing the long game with the public’s willingness to drop rules and protocols in an ongoing effort to remove objective results and accountability from the system. The latest casualty is “high stakes testing”, as the State School Board has capitulated to
This week’s Courier Herald column: I wrote a piece on my blog for Good Friday that began “If you want to make God Laugh, tell him your plans.” That was what seems like years ago, when we were still trying to come to grips with all of the changes a pandemic was forcing upon us.
This week’s Courier Herald column: Let’s rip the Band-Aid off before we get into the details. On January 20th, 2021, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as President of the United States. It doesn’t matter if you or I like it, nor if you voted for him or not. It makes no difference if you will
