Last week’s Courier Herald column: Most Georgia colleges have completed their spring commencement exercises, with high schools set to award diplomas to new graduates over the next couple of weeks. It’s a great time of year to both celebrate the achievements earned, while looking forward to new opportunities and challenges ahead. For those who have
Last week’s Courier Herald Column: We got some good news last week. Or, at least, the news on inflation was less bad. When dealing with the dismal science of economics, “less bad” is good. The annualized inflation rate for the month of April dropped below 5% for the first time in two years. The accelerating
This week’s Courier Herald column: My last column was about a renewed dedication to diet and fitness as part of an overall long term approach to personal health. Naturally, this week I found myself traveling for leisure, and an odd craving came about that I decided was ok to indulge. Vacation is vacation, after all
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I sometimes like to run experiments in real time on social media. Some are to get reactions to single posts. Sometimes I play the long game. Three years ago this month I wrote a column about a habit I had established a year earlier. Taking a cue from former UGA
This week’s Courier Herald column: If you follow business news, or even political news where the debate weapon is the trajectory of the economy, you’ve likely picked up on the opinion that the U.S. is headed into a recession. This, after all, has been the consensus projection for over a year. These predictions are a
This week’s Courier Herald column: On April 10th, 2023, President Joe Biden signed a bill officially ending the three-year national emergency for Covid-19. The White House intends to continue the “public health emergency” until May 11th. Perhaps then, we can consider the pandemic officially over. For too many in Washington, the perpetuation of this once
Last week’s Courier Herald column: This week at the New York Auto Show, Kia officially announced that their newest EV, the Telluride sized EV9, will be built at the company’s plant in West Point Georgia. This is in addition to the 300,000 electric vehicles Kia’s corporate partner Hyundai plans to build at their Bryan County
This week’s Courier Herald column: As someone whose annual calendar is heavily anchored in the activities of the Georgia General Assembly, the annual declaration of Sine Die for adjournment is a bit of relief. In fact, it’s quite freeing. It’s time to consider what is next. The immediate focus for the capitol and capital community
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
