This week’s Courier Herald Column is a re-post from July 3rd, 2012. May you and yours enjoy your holiday week celebrating the birth of this great country. On the Fourth of July, we celebrate the birth of a nation. We also celebrate and remember the wisdom and courage of our founding fathers. They are men

Georgia will not be holding its tax-free weekend this August. WRDW has a crying Oprah GIF. The Macon Telegraph uses phrases like “Georgia shoppers will miss out” and “legislators shut down the sales tax-free weekend.” But is that really the case, or is this a surprisingly shrewd move from the Gold Dome? The annual tax-free weekend started

Six Flags turns 50. Yay! More grocery choices. Yeah sure, but will it have a biergarten? The play-by-play. The burning heap of the Russia narrative. Lots of ideas here. Oh, boy. Watch for those icebergs! No laptops for you! Monticello hit by ransomware attack. Vinyl making a comeback! Greta moves on. MTA in big trouble.

It looks like state Sen. Rick Jeffares’ (R-McDonough) campaign for lieutenant governor may have more firepower behind it than we thought. On Thursday, he secured the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-3), who represents some of the same areas as Jeffares in Congress. Ferguson also donated $5,000 to Jeffares’ campaign. Jeffares faces the current

The New York Times is reporting that Georgia boy Nick Ayers is taking over as Vice President Mike Pence’s new chief of staff: Mr. Pence’s chief of staff, Josh Pitcock, will be replaced by Nick Ayers, a veteran political operative from Georgia who has been working with the vice president for three years. Mr. Ayers

Georgia State Senator Hunter Hill issued a press release stating that his campaign has raised over $1 million for his campaign to become Georgia’s next Governor. Sen. Hill was elected to the Georgia Senate in 2010. According to his press release, he served as an Army Ranger and completed three tours of active duty in

GOP wunderkind Nick Ayers is not running for governor in 2018, according to Greg Bluestein at the AJC. Ayers, who is a top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence and an ally of the Trump administration, generated a good deal of speculation about a potential run earlier this year. Having never held elected office before,

On this date in 1925, Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb and on the same day in 1953, the Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast. Peaches The ACA and health care problems from a rural hospital doctor  Summer gas prices in

For anyone in Atlanta tomorrow: Chairman Kevin Tanner (R-Dawsonville) is holding the first meeting of the House Commission on Transit Governance and Funding on June 29 from 10 AM to 2 PM in room 506 of the Coverdell Legislative Office Building (CLOB). House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) will be there to speak to the

A Cherokee County jury awarded James Lyle $833,000 in his libel suit against Lee Martin and the Tea Party Patriots the Daily Caller reported. In case you’re not up-to-date on your Tea Party drama, allow me to fill you in. The Tea Party burst on to the scene in 2009 after President Obama’s healthcare law