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
This week’s Courier Herald column: As we approach our second Labor Day of this pandemic we’re in a different yet familiar place as last year. One year ago we had begun to tentatively re-open parts of the country. “Two weeks to flatten the curve” had morphed into something much different. And yet, after a mid-summer
This week’s Courier Herald column: If you ever want to meet someone that truly works for a living, befriend a server that works the breakfast shift. Whether they work at a local establishment or one of the national chains, you’ll usually find someone who not only has to be presentable and functional at an unholy
This week’s Courier Herald column: Down at the Georgia Department of Revenue, taxpayers have made it rain. Georgia’s tax receipts for the month of May were up 68% from a year ago. Yes, that number is correct. The state took in more than one and two-thirds of the tax receipts as it did during the
This week’s Courier Herald column: One year ago this week everything abruptly changed. The idea of a pandemic went from an abstract concept for most of us to a top of mind, life changing event. In the interim more than 17,000 Georgians have lost their lives and one million of us – roughly one in
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: The calendar tells us we’re upon a new year. The routine says we’re still stuck in the present. It’s up to each of us, individually, to reconcile the two. The Great Time Out started in March with “two weeks to flatten the curve”. The calendar tells us that two weeks
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
This week’s Courier Herald column: We’re now well into the holiday season and, thankfully and mercifully, the home stretch of 2020. It’s been a year of a pandemic, social unrest, and an election that refuses to end. Many of us will not be sad to see this year conclude. I have no issue with the
This week’s Courier Herald column: Those in charge of educating our children have been playing the long game with the public’s willingness to drop rules and protocols in an ongoing effort to remove objective results and accountability from the system. The latest casualty is “high stakes testing”, as the State School Board has capitulated to
