This week’s Courier Herald column: It’s been two decades. Twenty Years. A lot has changed, as it does when time marches on. A lot will be written and said about this anniversary of 9/11. The images and news coming out of Afghanistan will ensure that. There will be many questions that continue to be asked
This week’s Courier Herald column: As we approach our second Labor Day of this pandemic we’re in a different yet familiar place as last year. One year ago we had begun to tentatively re-open parts of the country. “Two weeks to flatten the curve” had morphed into something much different. And yet, after a mid-summer
Last week’s Courier Herald column: I had a long drive Tuesday, and much of it was punctuated by recurring news updates regarding President Biden’s summit of leaders from the tech and financial industries on Cybersecurity. While the meeting had been highly choreographed to emphasize what private industry is already doing to combat the ever present
This week’s Courier Herald column After a few years of relative stability, the Southeastern Conference appears to be on the verge of yet another expansion. Credible rumors are flying and events seem to be in motion for Texas and Oklahoma to ditch the Big 12 and join a westward-reaching powerhouse of amateur athletics. “Amateur”. If
This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgia House Speaker David Ralston this week unveiled a $75 million spending proposal for “Law Enforcement and Mental Health”. The headline feature of the package is a one-time $1,000 bonus for every POST certified local police officer and sheriff’s deputy in the state. State law enforcement officers received a $1,000
This week’s Courier Herald column: I celebrated another trip around the sun a couple of weeks ago. Given a worldwide pandemic, nationwide economic shutdown, and my own personal journey with Covid, I’ll channel the Grateful Dead in summing up my 52nd year with “What a long strange trip it’s been.” I tend to use my
This week’s Courier Herald column: In the 1985 movie Brewster’s Millions, Richard Pryor’s character had to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. There were a few catches. He couldn’t own anything of value at the end, he couldn’t gift the money to anyone or charity, and
This week’s Courier Herald column: If you ever want to meet someone that truly works for a living, befriend a server that works the breakfast shift. Whether they work at a local establishment or one of the national chains, you’ll usually find someone who not only has to be presentable and functional at an unholy
This week’s Courier Herald column: Down at the Georgia Department of Revenue, taxpayers have made it rain. Georgia’s tax receipts for the month of May were up 68% from a year ago. Yes, that number is correct. The state took in more than one and two-thirds of the tax receipts as it did during the
This week’s Courier Herald column: This week I managed to catch the 2013 movie “Saving Mr. Banks”, the story of Walt Disney trying to secure the movie rights for Mary Poppins from author P.L. Travers. Both Disney and Travers jet across the Atlantic as the iconic studio head tries to gain the author’s trust, approval,
