This week’s Courier Herald column: Inflation is back. It’s hard to believe that a political issue that dominated the first decade of my life – From Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls, Ford’s Whip Inflation Now campaign to the OPEC oil embargos that exacerbated price levels in the late seventies – has disappeared as a front-burner
This week’s Courier Herald column: This week marks the 52nd celebration of Earth Day, a celebration first observed on April 22nd, 1970. How this day is viewed is likely determined by two highly correlated variables. The distance between the first Earth Day and the birthdate of one considering the holiday would tend to show a
This week’s Courier Herald column: Good news was delivered to my inbox this week, which will be appreciated by students and their parents across the state. For the third time in five years, the University System of Georgia will freeze tuition and fees for the upcoming school year. While holding the line on the cost
This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgia is once again the epicenter of national politics. The vehicle of choice this time is a bill to codify changes to Georgia’s voting laws. An objective observer would find it important to delineate the word “codify” because many of the procedures used during the 2020 elections were done outside
This week’s Courier Herald column: This is Easter Week. It’s also the week we sent the Georgia General Assembly home from their annual 40 day stay in Atlanta. The overlap on the calendar lends itself to a few words on the juxtaposition of religion and politics, but the focus today will be on a much
This week’s Courier Herald column: It’s time to close the books on the November election. After all, it’s spring of 2021. What happened in 2020 is done. And yet, Georgia Republicans have some unfinished business which must be addressed. Former President Trump’s refusal to accept that he lost his bid for re-election and the aftermath
This week’s Courier Herald column: One year ago this week everything abruptly changed. The idea of a pandemic went from an abstract concept for most of us to a top of mind, life changing event. In the interim more than 17,000 Georgians have lost their lives and one million of us – roughly one in
This week’s Courier Herald column: This is the week we “Spring Forward”. That’s both a public service announcement, as well as your warning that the semi-annual kerfuffle over time changes is about to inundate your social media feeds. Despite virtually every adult understanding that there are still only 24 hours in a day, and that
This week’s Courier Herald column: The Georgia House of Representatives passed a resolution last week that would name a Savannah bridge after former U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson. No, it’s not the soon to be replaced bridge spanning the Savannah river, but a new one spanning a massive railyard leading into the Port of Savannah. Isakson
This week’s Courier Herald column: It was a beautiful 68-degree and sunny day at my house Tuesday, and I missed it. I was there, but after almost a year of limited outside activities and a couple of weeks of bitter cold, I’m overly conditioned to accepting HVAC controlled 72 degrees and inside as my status
