This week’s Courier Herald column: It’s been difficult to get a good understanding of the tax cuts passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Trump. Media coverage has generally been sporadic, and seemed to accentuate the negative whenever possible. Shortly after the bill passed, coverage implied that most Americans would see
This week’s Courier Herald column: Three years ago Georgia leaders knew they had a problem. Seats in training classes for new State Patrol officers were going unfilled. Recruiting new members of the force was beyond difficult. Morale on the force was low. A six percent pay raise after years of status quo salaries had done
The Cobb County Republican Party held it’s annual BBQ today, complete with a straw poll and about 3-4 hours of “family fun”, i.e. sitting indoors and listening to various presentations and candidate speeches. The news out of most of these types of events usually includes straw polls, and there were a few candidate announcements for
This week’s Courier Herald column: Last week was a bit of a milestone, as the calendar tells me that I’ve turned 50. It’s hard not to spend at least a little bit of time thinking about how the world and this country have changed over that half century. Bryan Adams had a hit song “Summer
Representative David Stover, who has represented parts of Coweta County in the Georgia House, has resigned his seat citing family issues. The Newnan Times Herald has the official line: Stover married a woman from England last summer, but following his reelection in 2018, he said he intended to serve through the end of his term
This week’s Courier Herald column: I spent the last few weeks checking off a bucket list item. There’s just too much of this country I had not yet seen, and by playing aggressive defense on my calendar I was able to piece together the time for an extended road trip. 22 states and 8,027 rental
This week’s Courier Herald column: There’s a question we really have to stop asking our high school students. “Where are you going to college?” isn’t a good way to start a conversation with someone a generation or three younger than you. Seniors that just graduated are mostly glad that the question has an answer, even
This week’s Courier Herald column: June 6th was the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the day Allied forces began taking back the beaches of Normandy in World War II. Each year, there are fewer and fewer WWII Vets able to mark the anniversary. This year, at age 95, Frank Macon commemorated the day by flying a T-6 trainer aircraft.
This week’s Courier Herald column: Whenever a public discussion begins about needed improvements for Georgia’s infrastructure, camps quickly form and divide into a battle of transit versus roads. The debate devolves into whether people want to ride together in transit, or whether we can build enough roads for everyone to be able to drive in
I know what you’re thinking. Michael Williams’ fraud of a gubernatorial campaign wasn’t a crime. Well, not according to the official code of Georgia anyway. Filing a false insurance claim is, however. From the Forsyth County News, who broke the story yesterday: Former gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams was sentenced to probation after fraudulently claiming computers
