This week’s Courier Herald column: It’s cold in Georgia this week, but the worst of the country’s weather took aim at Texas. The bitter cold combined with icing conditions have left much of the state without power. It’s not for the reasons Georgians associate with ice storms – when we experience downed trees on power
This week’s Courier Herald column: Candidates, partisan activists, and media members alike put too much focus on the differences between the political extremes rather than practical action steps necessary to actually solve problems. On one end of the spectrum you have those who want to get every government entity “small enough so they can get
This week’s Courier Herald column: There was an interesting story from the business and investing world that briefly spilled over into mainstream news this week. The events that transpired not only had the ability to affect major financial markets, but as is usually the case, will have political ramifications too. Shares of Gamestop, a struggling
This week’s Courier Herald column: Social conservatives are especially dejected after the 2020 elections. Many are wondering where to go from here. Some doubt the future of the country. I know some who are openly questioning their beliefs and how a result they were entirely sure was not going to happen was allowed to become
This week’s Courier Herald column: I’m now among the roughly 700,000 Georgians who have become a Covid statistic. I’m one of the lucky ones in that I remain here, relatively healthy, with the ability to write this piece. I’m also lucky in that when I began to notice I wasn’t feeling well on the morning
This week’s Courier Herald column: The first week of January was a long year in Georgia politics. The most expensive Senate elections in history flipped two seats and control of the entire Senate. A protest over the result of November’s elections became an occupation of the Nation’s capitol building. Along the way many of Georgia’s
This week’s Courier Herald column: When I enrolled at the University of Georgia way back in 1987 and was told to pick a major, I chose economics. I had no intention of it being my real major, but it was among the choices on the path to a B.B.A. and I liked it in high
This week’s Courier Herald column: The calendar tells us we’re upon a new year. The routine says we’re still stuck in the present. It’s up to each of us, individually, to reconcile the two. The Great Time Out started in March with “two weeks to flatten the curve”. The calendar tells us that two weeks
This week’s Courier Herald column: This has been the longest year ever. It doesn’t just seem that way. It was a leap year, so 2020 gave us an extra day back in February to make it official by tying the record of 366 days. It seems longer. A pandemic, social unrest, economic turmoil, and a
This week’s Courier Herald column: There was good news out of the Governor’s office this week, as Brian Kemp sent word that state revenues for November were up 8.3% from one year ago. For the first five months of this fiscal year, Georgia’s tax revenues are up 5.7% compared to last year. This is, unquestionably,
