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
This week’s Courier Herald column: I wrote a piece on my blog for Good Friday that began “If you want to make God Laugh, tell him your plans.” That was what seems like years ago, when we were still trying to come to grips with all of the changes a pandemic was forcing upon us.
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
