Last week’s Courier Herald column: Five or so years ago I attended a one-day session in Washington DC hosted by FreedomWorks. The libertarian leaning conservative advocacy group brought together a couple dozen writers and grassroots leaders to discuss the topic of criminal justice reform. What still strikes me most about the day was the
This week’s Courier Herald column: A few months ago I wrote a column suggesting that it was time to accept electric vehicles as mainstream. Too many, mostly from conservative political circles, associate the advancement in technology with overreaching political agendas. The two concepts can and should be treated separately. Adapting to new technologies and incorporating
This week’s Courier Herald column: Max Cleland passed away this week at the age of 79, just two days before Veterans Day. He served Georgia in the State Senate, as Secretary of State, and as a U.S. Senator. Other public service includes running the U.S. Veterans Administration for President Jimmy Carter. All of his public
This week’s Courier Herald column: A year is several eternities in politics even in normal times. Our ongoing pandemic seems to have slowed time to a crawl, and the year that has transpired since the 2020 elections seems to have been much, much longer than that. Georgia had a few high profile municipal elections and
This week’s Courier Herald column: I got a text from a friend a few weeks ago. It was the kind of question that deserved more than a quick text reply. She’s worried. She wanted to know what I thought about the state of the union. Specifically, she asked if I thought we were living in
This week’s Courier Herald column: President Biden announced this week that California’s clogged ports will be operating on a 24/7 basis to reduce the backlog of ships and cargo that has become the focal point of our nation’s broken supply chains. While often left out of the discussion, Savannah’s container port was the subject of
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I’ve spent much of the summer outside of Metro Atlanta. “Work From Home” is now more fully understood as “Work From Anywhere” and I’ve been long overdue to connect with the other Georgia. “Other Georgia” is where I grew up, before Atlanta grew to the point of encompassing my rural
Last week’s Courier Herald Column: Georgia lawmakers will return to the Georgia capitol on Wednesday, November 3rd in order to reset district lines for themselves, members of Congress, and local elected officials. You’ll read a lot about this process between now and then. Consider this a primer to help sort out what will be news
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I’ll add a TL;DR up front, and a note that I’ve been skipping a few columns here that aren’t #gapol focused – like this one. But I feel this needs to be said more plainly: We still have policymakers in Washington stuck on solving the last problem – that of
Last week’s Courier Herald column: As someone who cut his teeth writing in the political blogosphere, I learned early on that many base their worldview on their favorite amendment. Citations of the First, Second, Fifth, or Tenth Amendments are for some a complete rebuttal to any political argument. I don’t often pretend to be a
