This Week’s Courier Herald column: I made the move to writing columns for print newspapers and online publications 12 years ago this month. The goal, then and now, was to try to bring a view of state government’s operations and workings to Georgia’s voters, citizens, and taxpayers. Inherent in that goal but spoken less frequently
This week’s Courier Herald column: It’s the first week of the New Year, and I’m already breaking one of my resolutions. Instead of sharpening the focus here on state and local political issues based on policy, the spectacle of trying to select a Speaker of the House in Washington has stolen all of our political
This week’s Courier Herald column: A few months ago I wrote a column suggesting that it was time to accept electric vehicles as mainstream. Too many, mostly from conservative political circles, associate the advancement in technology with overreaching political agendas. The two concepts can and should be treated separately. Adapting to new technologies and incorporating
Over the last two years, a lot of potential legislation went nowhere. This is not unusual, as many legislators drop bills with little chance of passing, but it’s particularly true when there’s a different party in the majority in each House of Congress. Priorities of the House are not priorities of the Senate during such
This evening, the US Senate has confirmed the newest Supreme Court Justice: Amy Coney Barrett. Senator David Perdue’s office issued this statement concerning the confirmation of Judge Barrett: “Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an accomplished, experienced jurist and a brilliant legal mind,” said Senator Perdue. “Throughout her impressive career, Judge Barrett has demonstrated her commitment to preserving
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
I can’t add to the well-deserved paeans to Congressman Lewis but I can share a few memories that hopefully highlight him as a person. Even with the most charitable interpretation I can’t say that I was close to, or truly knew him. I did have several close experiences with Congressman Lewis over a 12-year period.
Senator Kelly Loeffler wants “left-wing activists” to be deemed domestic terrorists. By whom? Well–that’s a good question. Any such move is likely unconstitutional to boot. Loeffler cosponsored S.Res.279, ostensibly targeting Antifa which is fine in theory but it’s not an organization. Even if you support Congress wanting to restrict citizens’ rights to free assembly, the
Georgia’s U.S. Senators were on opposite sides of the aisle last week when an amendment, which would have forced the government to get a warrant before obtaining the internet search history of Americans under the FISA Act, failed to get enough votes for passage. Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler split on the bipartisan Wyden-Daines
