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
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
This week’s Courier Herald column: Labor Day is supposed to be one of the fun holidays. It’s one where you’re expected to be at the lake or the beach. Only the most unfun of Facebook scolds will spend the day lecturing you for having the temerity of enjoying a holiday rather than attending some sort
This week’s Courier Herald column: When I first wrote on the economic consequences of our Covid response there was the assumption that the shutdown of our state and nation’s economy would be relatively short. It was expected to be measured in weeks, not months. The original goal wasn’t to perfectly defeat the disease, but to
The following is a statement released from Governor Brian Kemp’s office, regarding the lawsuit over local mask mandates and a subsequent lawsuit with the City of Atlanta: “I sued the City of Atlanta to immediately stop the shuttering of local businesses and protect local workers from economic instability. For weeks, we have worked in good
This week’s Courier Herald column: Let’s not mince words here. We need to be wearing masks if we have any hope of ending the pandemic early. Yes, I’m willing to acknowledge those who claim the pandemic hasn’t been politicized are being willfully ignorant or flat out lying. You are also correct if you point out
Folks, Covid hasn’t gone away, and it’s not a hoax. I’ll have a bit more to say on that later, but for now, understand this: The singular metric that matters on where we are in this pandemic is hospital utilization. Once again, we have hospitals in Georgia that are at capacity in ICU beds. As
This week’s Courier Herald column: We’re now closer to the November election than we are to the moment when it became clear that the Covid-19 pandemic was not just an overseas problem but a domestic crisis. While there will undoubtedly be revisionist history on the government response to protect our public health and economy, a
Very rarely can Georgia, unquestionably the greatest state in the U.S., claim to be a legitimate world leader when compared to countries. Now we can. The New York Times crunched the numbers of the most confirmed new cases over the past week, adjusted for population size, and treats each U.S. state as if it were
