This week’s Courier Herald column: If you follow business news, or even political news where the debate weapon is the trajectory of the economy, you’ve likely picked up on the opinion that the U.S. is headed into a recession.  This, after all, has been the consensus projection for over a year.  These predictions are a

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

Note: this is a guest op-ed contributed by Eliot Wang, Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta. The most recent transit of Taiwan’s President Tsai took place on March 30, 2023. United States Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy visited Taiwan on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. President Tsai has every right

Last week’s Courier Herald column: This week at the New York Auto Show, Kia officially announced that their newest EV, the Telluride sized EV9, will be built at the company’s plant in West Point Georgia.  This is in addition to the 300,000 electric vehicles Kia’s corporate partner Hyundai plans to build at their Bryan County

This week’s Courier Herald column: As someone whose annual calendar is heavily anchored in the activities of the Georgia General Assembly, the annual declaration of Sine Die for adjournment is a bit of relief.  In fact, it’s quite freeing.  It’s time to consider what is next. The immediate focus for the capitol and capital community

Last week’s Courier Herald column: The Georgia General Assembly is in its final official hours for 2023, with legislators prepared to gavel out “Sine Die” on March 29th.  While this will end their 40 official business days in Atlanta for the year, it’s important to understand the real schedule of the legislature.  State Senators and

This week’s Courier Herald column: Bank failures were big recurring news stories just over a decade ago.  The 2008 failure of Bear Stearns, then Lehman Brothers, signaled that the bubble in real estate had burst.  The effects began a long cascade of regulators closing banks, peaking with 157 financial institutions closed nationally in 2010, with

This week’s Courier Herald column: Forty days of the Georgia Legislature could easily be summed up by paraphrasing Charles Dickens.  It is the longest time; it is the shortest time. When the General Assembly stood at ease at the end of Thursday March 9th, they had already completed 31 of the 40 days allowed for

This week’s Courier Herald column Senator Jon Ossoff made news a few weeks ago, backing federal efforts via the Land and Water Conservation Fund to protect two sections of forest land in Northwest Georgia.  As reported by Dave Williams of the Capitol Beat News Service, Senator Ossoff’s letter to the Forest Service noted the land’s

This week’s Courier Herald column: In recent weeks I’ve been taking a look at Georgia’s lack of affordable housing.  The problem, articulated by Governor Kemp and the state’s Economist Dr. Jeffrey Dorfman, is that Georgia does not have enough housing units for the workforce we currently have, much less for the employees we expect to