This week’s Courier Herald column: We’re now well into the holiday season and, thankfully and mercifully, the home stretch of 2020. It’s been a year of a pandemic, social unrest, and an election that refuses to end. Many of us will not be sad to see this year conclude. I have no issue with the
This week’s Courier Herald column: Those in charge of educating our children have been playing the long game with the public’s willingness to drop rules and protocols in an ongoing effort to remove objective results and accountability from the system. The latest casualty is “high stakes testing”, as the State School Board has capitulated to
This week’s Courier Herald column: I wrote a piece on my blog for Good Friday that began “If you want to make God Laugh, tell him your plans.” That was what seems like years ago, when we were still trying to come to grips with all of the changes a pandemic was forcing upon us.
This week’s Courier Herald column: Let’s rip the Band-Aid off before we get into the details. On January 20th, 2021, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as President of the United States. It doesn’t matter if you or I like it, nor if you voted for him or not. It makes no difference if you will
This week’s Courier Herald column: I started this column the morning after the election. As is custom, that Wednesday morning traditionally is one where I have had little sleep, but also seem to have the clearest thoughts on what has transpired, and where we are going. The original premise of this column was expressed that
This week’s Courier Herald Column: There’s a bit of a cruel irony in writing a column with a deadline on election day that won’t be read until after the results are known. It forces the author to either ignore the main issue of the day or adopt a predictive tone for events that will already
This week’s Courier Herald column: 40 years ago this week, Ronald Reagan asked in a final debate before his election “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”. It became the standard litmus test for Presidential elections. That question helped crystalize the myriad of issues facing voters into a binary choice. Do we
This week’s Courier Herald column: A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column lamenting the state of our politics, and noted that the money pouring into Georgia’s top of the ticket races had drowned out other important contests. I highlighted the races for Georgia’s Public Service Commission as one that has all but disappeared
This week’s Courier Herald column: With early voting locations open across Georgia and absentee ballots already being cast by mail, voters are discovering there’s a lot more going on than the race for President. Georgia has two U.S. Senate seats, two seats for the Public Service Commission, and all seats for Congress, State House, and
This week’s Courier Herald column: Absentee ballots are already being distributed and returned. This year, due to the pandemic, many more Georgians and Americans will be voting my mail. Voting has been made easier than ever before. For those who wish to vote in person, their opportunity here in Georgia begins Monday, October 12th. Voting
