This week’s Courier Herald column: A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column lamenting the state of our politics, and noted that the money pouring into Georgia’s top of the ticket races had drowned out other important contests. I highlighted the races for Georgia’s Public Service Commission as one that has all but disappeared
This week’s Courier Herald column: With early voting locations open across Georgia and absentee ballots already being cast by mail, voters are discovering there’s a lot more going on than the race for President. Georgia has two U.S. Senate seats, two seats for the Public Service Commission, and all seats for Congress, State House, and
This week’s Courier Herald column: Absentee ballots are already being distributed and returned. This year, due to the pandemic, many more Georgians and Americans will be voting my mail. Voting has been made easier than ever before. For those who wish to vote in person, their opportunity here in Georgia begins Monday, October 12th. Voting
This week’s Courier Herald column: I got the sad news that Uncle Bob passed away last week, at the age of 90. Robert Poydasheff wasn’t really my uncle, but that’s what everyone in Columbus Georgia called him. In addition to the honorary title of Uncle, he accumulated other titles of significance during his life. He
Today, in a long overdue move, I’m naming Lawton Sack Editor In Chief of GeorgiaPol.com. It’s my last act as the Publisher/owner of the website. I’ll also be turning over the ownership and role of Publisher to him as well this week. The headline on this could be “Harper Sacks Himself” but I didn’t want
This week’s Courier Herald column: 2020 has presented unique challenges that most of us wouldn’t have dreamed of a year ago. We’ve added social unrest and a pandemic to an election year, and forced a shutdown of much of the economy in the process. It’s not surprising that much of the news these days is
This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgians who find themselves unemployed due to the pandemic are no longer receiving additional unemployment insurance payments due to gridlock in Washington. That’s the nice, sanitized way that the current situation is currently being reported. It sounds much nicer and less sinister than reporting that those hardest hit by the
From Congressman Graves’ office: Ranger, G.A. – This evening Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA-14) released the following statement: “With the House planning to wrap up the People’s business and the final report from the Modernization Committee set to be filed in the next few weeks, I intend to step down from Congress and begin the next chapter of
This week’s Courier Herald column: It is important to always strive to do the right thing. When government is involved, it’s even more important to do the right things the right way. Last week the Centers For Disease Control issued a nationwide moratorium on evictions due to the Coronavirus pandemic. It differs from a now
Today, Governor Brian Kemp made two appointments to fill judgeships in two Georgia Superior Courts. From a press release: Atlanta, GA – Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced his appointments of Connie Williford and Gregory Voyles to fill vacancies on the Superior Courts of the Macon and Southern Judicial Circuits, respectively. Williford will fill the vacancy
