High cost of Rollins family GREAT NEWS, FOLKS! The Georgia Department of Transportation has announced that “funds have been set aside for the 7.6-mile connector from U.S. 411 to Interstate 75 in c...
Prisoners of state policy From the Rome News-Tribune, Sept. 2, 2010 — COMPARED TO Georgia as a whole, Floyd Countians dwell in an absolutely enlightened place when it comes to penal policy. Indeed, the state’s taxp...
Sunlight best disinfectant: Georgia’s Open Records
From the Macon Telegraph, Sept. 1, 2010 — There is an oft believed notion that the Georgia Open Records Act is a tool only for news gathering organizations. Wrong. Every citizen in the state...
Kingston bill on alcohol for troops makes sense From the Athens Banner-Herald, Sept. 1, 2010 — It may be that Jack Kingston, who grew up in Athens and now represents coastal and deep South Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives, act...
Girding for battle in Georgia From the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Aug. 31, 2010 — Once upon a time, candidates who had weathered primary races in the spring and summer waited until Labor Day to renew campaigns seeking...
Enforcing immigration laws a necessary step From the Brunswick (Ga.) News, Aug. 31, 2010 — With today’s technology, with information at the fingertips of human resource departments and personnel, most might agree that the chance...
Nailed it ... sort of From the Rome News-Tribune, Aug. 31, 2010 — IT’S BECOME so rare to see a politician hit the nail on the head that when Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed struck it a glancing blow that only partly s...
Seeds of a revolution From the Augusta Chronicle, Aug. 27, 2010 - Those scratch marks you see on the threshold of the U.S. Capitol entrance are evidence of senators and congressmen being dragged out kicking and scream...
Setting priorities tough when there's no money From the Macon Telegraph, Aug. 27, 2010 — In its first outing, the GeorgiaForward Forum, a mix of about 250 people from across the state, attempted to identify priorities for a state that is...
From the Rome News-Tribune, Aug. 29, 2010 -- THIS COUNTRY has a pile of big unresolved problems at present. Deeply troubled economy. War without apparent end. Political gridlock. Illegal immigrati...
From the Brunswick (Ga.) News, Aug. 25, 2010-- With over one-half of the population of the United States living within 50 miles of water, one would think members of Congress would do everything po...
From the Athens Banner-Herald, Aug. 27, 2010 -- Earlier this week, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution gave reporters covering the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the medi...
Can’t study without pizza THE STRONG, SUDDEN population growth in Greater Rome can only help boost business and cash-register activity at local stores, shops, restaurants. Funny how, in a downer o...
From the Rome News-Tribune, Aug. 26, 2010 -- PHIL GINGREY, this region’s representative in Congress, apparently has a lot of free time on his hands due to being unopposed for re-election. He’s bee...
From the Savannah Morning News, Aug. 25, 2010 - Tuesday's decision by U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. on the Troy Anthony Davis case should be the last word on this sore, emotional subjec...
From the Athens Banner-Herald, Aug. 25, 2010 -- The news this week that a feasibility study for a proposed interstate highway linking Savannah and Knoxville via Augusta and the Northeast Georgia m...
From the Albany Herald, Aug. 24, 2010 --Whether it was because Georgia’s plan was amended so the U.S. Justice Department finally decided it could sign off on it or a situation in which Justice offi...
JOHN BOYD JR. has had it. Mr. Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, has worked for the past quarter-century to win some semblance of justice for African American farmers, who for decades were denied government loans because of the color of their skin. Yet something goes wrong...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency is asking for comments on its proposed new gas mileage stickers for automobiles -- so here's ours. On the whole, both of the agency's two suggested alternative stickers represent much-needed improvement over current fuel-economy labeling. They more clearly and...
DEL. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is faulted by her opponent in the Sept. 14 primary for not being able to deliver voting rights to the city. This failure, even with solid Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, is why challenger Douglass Sloan thinks that she should be replaced. That...
ENDANGERED Democrats beseech President Obama to focus on the problems at home. Republicans smelling blood attack him if he talks about anything but the recession. His own aides promise, from time to time, that his mission will consist of "jobs, jobs, jobs."