Last week’s Courier Herald column: Pete and Betty Hearn were regulars in our family’s Fayetteville Georgia hardware store when I was growing up. I don’t recall their main line of business, but one side operation they ran involved sharpening of saw blades for us and our customers. They kept their business affairs direct and simple.
This week’s Courier Herald column: David Ralston became Speaker of Georgia’s House in 2010. While most outsiders were secure in knowing that Georgia had spent the past 8 years flipping to a solidly Republican state, there were serious problems below the surface. The GOP front runner to succeed Governor Sonny Perdue was mired in scandal,
This week’s Courier Herald column: The headlines this week were all about the elections. The real news this week in Georgia politics is that Georgia House Speaker David Ralston is dealing with a significant health issue, and has set in motion the process for House members to select his successor. One would assume then that
Last week’s Courier Herald column; It appears it didn’t post as scheduled. Still…enjoy some post election analysis before we’re actually post election – cbh There’s a bit of a conundrum when writing for both print and online publications with a filing deadline days before an election. Some readers will get this before the final votes
This week’s Courier Herald column: On October 27th, the European Union reached a deal to ban the sale of cars powered by gasoline and diesel fuel by 2035. Given that 2024 models will begin hitting showrooms in just a few months, that’s just 11 model years from now. In auto life cycles, that’s roughly two
This week’s Courier Herald column: “It’s the Economy Stupid.” That was the simple and succinct internal slogan used by Democratic Strategist James Carville to keep Bill Clinton’s first campaign for President on track and on message, despite all the internal and external noise that constantly threatened to derail it. As a former governor from a
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I’ve been remiss in getting some of these posted. I’ll aim to have this week’s column posted tomorrow. – cbh In about three weeks the votes will be counted for the 2022 General election, and then it will all be over. Or most of it will. If there’s a need
This week’s Courier Herald column. I was in one of my favorite local restaurants in Brunswick Georgia last week, an area I’ve been more than not for the past year and a half. Enough time that on some documents I’ve now started to call Glynn County “home”. The place is a favorite of mine for
This week’s Courier Herald column: The headlines these days are mostly negative. We’ve mostly moved on from pandemic news to stories about inflation, rising interest rates, and a likely recession. If you move on from news of the domestic economy, Europe is mired in a land war and is worried whether it will have the
This week’s Courier Herald column: You’ve likely seen the meme shared on Facebook. It purports to be an electric car graveyard in France. There are variations on the text surrounding the photo, but the conclusion suggested is generally the same: EV’s are bad because the expensive batteries soon go bad and the cars are junked,
