This week’s Courier Herald column: Checking my inbox this week, I had an email from a political consultant with the subject line “All we do is win, win, win”.  Hubris is often on full display with consultants after a successful primary season, but I’d likely hear “it ain’t bragging if you can back it up”

Good morning! We are asserting that we don’t need a statewide mask mandate for Georgians to do the right thing while we are also exhorting Georgians to please not drink bleach. Delta will slowly add more international flights. They will also continue to cap seating at 75% capacity through at January 2021 (at least; depends

Good morning. I’m filling in for Theresa this morning to bring you a few articles of note: Georgia Covid update: 1800 new cases Sunday. 33 new deaths reported statewide in the last 24 hours. 83% of the state’s critical care beds are full. (Edit: Despite being on the CL-E’s front web page this morning, this

Oh, what a tangled web. Or something. Not just UGA, any college football game. As we continue to eat our way through summer. But they still bite, right? Not your father’s Clone War. Pardon refused.  What?  August 25. Backed up with lots of data. What could go wrong? What’s a Fujiwhara (question on next week’s

Good news… (and we all need some, don’t we?) In addition to being the date in 1866 on which it was formally declared by President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over, today is National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day. Peaches Georgia voters to be made ‘inactive’ after absentee mail undeliverable Hazmat suits for

Hello, and good morning! It’s World Humanitarian Day, a day that both commemorates the humanitarian workers killed or injured in the line of duty and also honors those who continue to do this very hard work in extreme conditions across the globe. According to the United Nations, 483 humanitarian workers were attacked in 2019, yet

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

Good morning, and happy 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment! The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. How a Jack

I spent the weekend away from my phone and computer, sniffing and snuggling my newest nephew and watching Andee SPRINT across the room. A welcomed couple of days after a week of loss and unthinkable tragedy for people we love very much. And while this Monday is a *tiny* bit less welcome than usual, these

Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) released a statement in response to comments made by Rep. Tommy Benton (R-Jefferson) about the late Congressman John Lewis during an interview on WJJC (1270 AM) in Commerce. From the interview, as transcribed by the AJC: Benton: “I notice that there’s a movement to replace Alexander Stephens’ statue in Washington