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: The time between the General Assembly leaving town and Easter provides most that work in and around the area of state politics a bit of much needed down time. There is an exception for those running for office this year, especially those with primary opposition. It seems campaigns are a
This week’s Courier Herald column: The eighties are on line one. They’ve been on hold for a while, but they’d like to talk about foreign policy. Yes, that is an overt reference to President Obama’s debate retort to Mitt Romney, who had the temerity to remind us in 2012 that Russia was “our number one
This week’s Courier Herald column: Happy New Year. It’s the annual time we take stock in what we’ve done, what we say we’re going to do, and generally finish up the holiday season while really just hoping work goes easy on us for the first week of January. It’s a time to look back. Last
This week’s Courier Herald column: And just like that, it’s Christmas time again. The 2021 calendar is on its last page. A new year beckons in a couple of weeks. In the interim, we have a last mad scramble to navigate supply chain shortages to get presents under the tree and traditional holiday foods on
This week’s Courier Herald column: In the quiet early hours of Sunday December 5th, former Senator Bob Dole passed away in his sleep. It’s quite the contrast from the morning of April 14th, 1945, when then Second Lieutenant Dole remained critically wounded on a mountainside in northern Italy for ten hours before being rescued. Dole
This week’s Courier Herald column After a few years of relative stability, the Southeastern Conference appears to be on the verge of yet another expansion. Credible rumors are flying and events seem to be in motion for Texas and Oklahoma to ditch the Big 12 and join a westward-reaching powerhouse of amateur athletics. “Amateur”. If
This week’s Courier Herald column: I celebrated another trip around the sun a couple of weeks ago. Given a worldwide pandemic, nationwide economic shutdown, and my own personal journey with Covid, I’ll channel the Grateful Dead in summing up my 52nd year with “What a long strange trip it’s been.” I tend to use my
This week’s Courier Herald column: I’m now among the roughly 700,000 Georgians who have become a Covid statistic. I’m one of the lucky ones in that I remain here, relatively healthy, with the ability to write this piece. I’m also lucky in that when I began to notice I wasn’t feeling well on the morning
This week’s Courier Herald column: This has been the longest year ever. It doesn’t just seem that way. It was a leap year, so 2020 gave us an extra day back in February to make it official by tying the record of 366 days. It seems longer. A pandemic, social unrest, economic turmoil, and a
