Courier Herald column for the week of November 26th: First Lady Rosalynn Carter died last week at the age of 96. She dedicated her adult life to public service which is most often viewed through the lens of her husband and true partner in life of 77 years, President Jimmy Carter. While the two worked
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: Welcome to the midpoint of our holiday season. We’ve got Thanksgiving in the bank, Hanukkah underway as of December 18th, Christmas on the 25th, and then of course New Year’s just around the corner. In Georgia, it’s not only permissible but now encouraged to consider the holiday season ending
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
