This week’s Courier Herald column: If you ever want to meet someone that truly works for a living, befriend a server that works the breakfast shift. Whether they work at a local establishment or one of the national chains, you’ll usually find someone who not only has to be presentable and functional at an unholy
This week’s Courier Herald column: Down at the Georgia Department of Revenue, taxpayers have made it rain. Georgia’s tax receipts for the month of May were up 68% from a year ago. Yes, that number is correct. The state took in more than one and two-thirds of the tax receipts as it did during the
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: 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: 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: 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: 2020 has presented unique challenges that most of us wouldn’t have dreamed of a year ago. We’ve added social unrest and a pandemic to an election year, and forced a shutdown of much of the economy in the process. It’s not surprising that much of the news these days is
This week’s Courier Herald column: Georgians who find themselves unemployed due to the pandemic are no longer receiving additional unemployment insurance payments due to gridlock in Washington. That’s the nice, sanitized way that the current situation is currently being reported. It sounds much nicer and less sinister than reporting that those hardest hit by the
This week’s Courier Herald column: It is important to always strive to do the right thing. When government is involved, it’s even more important to do the right things the right way. Last week the Centers For Disease Control issued a nationwide moratorium on evictions due to the Coronavirus pandemic. It differs from a now
This week’s Courier Herald column: Labor Day is supposed to be one of the fun holidays. It’s one where you’re expected to be at the lake or the beach. Only the most unfun of Facebook scolds will spend the day lecturing you for having the temerity of enjoying a holiday rather than attending some sort
