Some welcome redecorating. There’s some golfy-type thing going on in Georgia. New express lanes bring tolls back to GA 400. Pray for South Georgia. All of Georgia, really. Make it stop. Malware/botnet disabled worldwide before any trouble started. (Am I the only one disturbed with the GRU reference? Another Disney slip?) Does anyone want to

This week’s Courier Herald column: It was January of 1975.  Wheel of Fortune made its television premier.  The Atlanta Falcons used the first pick of the NFL draft to add Steve Bartkowski from UCLA to their roster.  And down at the Georgia capitol, 27-year-old Calvin Smyre of Columbus was sworn in for the first time

Peaches  Kemp, Raffensperger lead in latest polls  But Herschel > Warnock  Meanwhile, Perdue says Trump is going to help him finish the drill Checking in with Georgia’s ‘election superheroes’ The hospital war grows over northwest Georgia Per usual: medical marijuana bill dies in the state senate  An embarrassing display of restitution  Message in a bottle

Good afternoon, all, and happy National Tartan Day! Today honors the 20-ish million Americans with Scottish heritage. Also, I want to apologize for my past two weeks’ absence. The first week I was in Savannah for Georgia Heritage Responders training. GHR is disaster response for cultural heritage sites. Last Wednesday, I was at the funeral

There will be a lot of institutional knowledge leaving the capitol this evening when the gavels bang Sine Die. None of them have served longer than Representative Calvin Smyre of Columbus. First elected in 1974, he’s served as a member of the majority and minority parties. He’s humble, but wields quiet power when needed and

There is a little something to be hopeful for. Oh, the stories they could tell! 1984 was a warning, not an instruction book. The jokes write themselves. Nothing to see here. Move along. Sooner or later, you’ll be tested. Everything is awful. Awful, indeed.

This week’s Courier Herald column: When the gavels in the Georgia House and Senate signal Sine Die, all of the usual signs of spring emerge.  The Masters will be played in Augusta, Spring breakers will populate our beaches, and those that govern will immediately begin asking for our money and our votes. Georgia’s primaries, where

Peaches What the heck is going on in Georgia higher ed? Jackie Johnson wants her charges dropped Opinion: Georgia at the tip of the spear How lawmakers plan to revamp Georgia’s behavioral health care system Georgia lawmakers gut controversial elections bill Georgia farmers paying price for Ukraine invasion Insurance Deal Spurs Georgia Mental Health Bill

Good morning! Today is Legislative Day 37. Times are… weird. Submitted for your consideration: Yesterday, as the Senate Finance Committee considered the tax cut that passed the House earlier in the session, they lobbed a last-minute change to the (arguably very successful) state film tax credit. The big, transformative mental health bill (that has been

This week’s Courier Herald column: At least we’re fighting.  It’s all we seem to know how to do these days. The fights of each party take on different tones and use different weapons.  Today’s focus is the fighting nature of Georgia “conservatives”.  Air quotes are used because the word seems to have as many meanings