The following was posted to Facebook by Renee Y Moss, a farmer from Southwest Georgia, and is reprinted with permission. The response from the New York Times is included as well. I just sent this letter to the NYT. Please read; it will open your eyes to what media is doing in our country and
Word is going out among legislative leadership that Governor Deal will call a special session of the Georgia General Assembly to deal with the catastrophic after effects of Hurricane Michael. As noted yesterday, the losses in some counties in Southwest Georgia to their economy and major infrastructure are staggering. It appears the call will also
This week’s Courier Herald column: Hurricane Michael was the strongest storm to hit the state of Georgia in over a century. Georgia was especially unlucky during the 1890’s, with a Category 4 storm hitting Brunswick in 1898 It followed a Category 3 storm that made landfall in Florida in 1896 taking damage up the Georgia
The Democrat currently running for Lieutenant Governor, Sarah Riggs Amico, managed to get through her entire primary and much of the general election without much scrutiny or publicity. Her biography and resume have mostly been taken at face value. She’s labeled an outsider with Harvard MBA and as a “successful businesswoman”. One of the roles
This week’s Courier Herald column: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra Georgians are at a fork in the road. For the past eight years, Georgians have had the same Governor, the same Lieutenant Governor, and the same Speaker of the House. They are all Republicans. Only one
Power restoration to tens of thousands in South Georgia continues after hurricane Michael. This storm is unique from others in both intensity and that it not only took down power poles and lines in service areas, but many substations and major transmission lines. Repairs to the entire power grid over a large part of the
I’ve been covered up today so forgive the brevity of the post. There’s little “news” content here, but more of a placeholder that action is required. Georgia got hit by a Category 3 hurricane yesterday. I don’t think that’s happened in the last century. The Georgia coast had three very strong storms in the 1890’s
This week’s Courier Herald column: It is wise to be wary of “national conversations” that we have right before elections. For the past couple of weeks, the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh had many national and local media outlets invoking the recent Me Too movement as part of the process. Directly and indirectly,
This week’s Courier Herald column: The single largest line item in Georgia’s annual budget is for K-12 education. This year, Georgians will invest ten billion dollars in our public schools. That represents roughly forty cents of every dollar the state will spend. This represents “full funding” of Georgia’s Quality Basic Education formula passed under Governor
The deadline was extended, then extended again, to get an agreement to proceed agreeable to all owners of the new nuclear reactors under construction at Plant Vogtle. Some background on the issue can be found here, but the long and short is that the non-Georgia Power owners wanted some assurance of a cost cap, and
