This week’s Courier Herald column: I celebrated another trip around the sun a couple of weeks ago. Given a worldwide pandemic, nationwide economic shutdown, and my own personal journey with Covid, I’ll channel the Grateful Dead in summing up my 52nd year with “What a long strange trip it’s been.” I tend to use my
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: 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
Today, in a long overdue move, I’m naming Lawton Sack Editor In Chief of GeorgiaPol.com. It’s my last act as the Publisher/owner of the website. I’ll also be turning over the ownership and role of Publisher to him as well this week. The headline on this could be “Harper Sacks Himself” but I didn’t want
I can’t add to the well-deserved paeans to Congressman Lewis but I can share a few memories that hopefully highlight him as a person. Even with the most charitable interpretation I can’t say that I was close to, or truly knew him. I did have several close experiences with Congressman Lewis over a 12-year period.
This week’s Courier Herald column: In the fall of 1983 I began the only formal training I’ve had in the field of journalism. It was then that I became a staff member of The Tigers’ Roar, the student newspaper of Fayette County High School. I was a freshman. As was and is typical of fourteen
This week’s Courier Herald column: I don’t have the answers. At this point, I’m not even sure we’re asking the right questions. A nation already on edge over experiencing a public health crisis simultaneously with the greatest economic challenge in a century is now dealing with public protests and riots. Our divided nation seems only
This week’s Courier Herald column: To Aidan, Gena, Max, and the other members of the Class of 2020, You got hosed. There’s really not a better spin on how your senior year was interrupted and then cut short. You had certain expectations, hopes, and dreams. There were things you wanted to do. Instead of proms,
This week’s Courier Herald column: David Pollack was a three-time All-American standout on defense for the University of Georgia and is currently an analysist for ESPN. That’s the network where we used to watch sporting events before we became stuck in the present. Pollack has always been a motivational leader, even during the time when
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” None of us could have planned this six months ago. If we had tried, we would have been disregarded as alarmists at best, and conspiracy theorists at worst. And yet, here we are. We remain trapped in the present. Many of our past plans
