This week’s Courier Herald column: If you ever want to meet someone that truly works for a living, befriend a server that works the breakfast shift. Whether they work at a local establishment or one of the national chains, you’ll usually find someone who not only has to be presentable and functional at an unholy
This week’s Courier Herald column: Down at the Georgia Department of Revenue, taxpayers have made it rain. Georgia’s tax receipts for the month of May were up 68% from a year ago. Yes, that number is correct. The state took in more than one and two-thirds of the tax receipts as it did during the
This week’s Courier Herald column: This week I managed to catch the 2013 movie “Saving Mr. Banks”, the story of Walt Disney trying to secure the movie rights for Mary Poppins from author P.L. Travers. Both Disney and Travers jet across the Atlantic as the iconic studio head tries to gain the author’s trust, approval,
This week’s Courier Herald column: Inflation is back. It’s hard to believe that a political issue that dominated the first decade of my life – From Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls, Ford’s Whip Inflation Now campaign to the OPEC oil embargos that exacerbated price levels in the late seventies – has disappeared as a front-burner
This week’s Courier Herald column: This week marks the 52nd celebration of Earth Day, a celebration first observed on April 22nd, 1970. How this day is viewed is likely determined by two highly correlated variables. The distance between the first Earth Day and the birthdate of one considering the holiday would tend to show a
This week’s Courier Herald column: Good news was delivered to my inbox this week, which will be appreciated by students and their parents across the state. For the third time in five years, the University System of Georgia will freeze tuition and fees for the upcoming school year. While holding the line on the cost
This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgia is once again the epicenter of national politics. The vehicle of choice this time is a bill to codify changes to Georgia’s voting laws. An objective observer would find it important to delineate the word “codify” because many of the procedures used during the 2020 elections were done outside
This week’s Courier Herald column: This is Easter Week. It’s also the week we sent the Georgia General Assembly home from their annual 40 day stay in Atlanta. The overlap on the calendar lends itself to a few words on the juxtaposition of religion and politics, but the focus today will be on a much
This week’s Courier Herald column: It’s time to close the books on the November election. After all, it’s spring of 2021. What happened in 2020 is done. And yet, Georgia Republicans have some unfinished business which must be addressed. Former President Trump’s refusal to accept that he lost his bid for re-election and the aftermath
This week’s Courier Herald column: One year ago this week everything abruptly changed. The idea of a pandemic went from an abstract concept for most of us to a top of mind, life changing event. In the interim more than 17,000 Georgians have lost their lives and one million of us – roughly one in
