From the long hot summer of horrifying and generally dispiriting news, there is a whole troubling series of images I can’t get out of my head: the dead and injured in California, Texas and Ohio; festival-goers, weekend shoppers and people…
The first time I was ever completely alone with my now-grown daughter was in the hospital where she was born. When she began to cry, the thing that popped immediately into my head was a hope that some responsible adult…
Practically every parent alive has at least one recollection of trying to get out the door for a day’s work or an overnight trip with a teary-eyed two-year-old clinging to a leg, pleading, “Don’t go!” I’ve been feeling a bit…
The old Atlanta slogan that proclaimed it “The World’s Next Great International City” seemed a bit more aspirational than realistic for the first few years it was floating around in the early 1970s. Noble idea, but was it likely to…
A few years ago, when I was helping move my daughter into her freshman dormitory in our nation’s capital and busily unloading boxes from the car, a man who had just alighted from his New Jersey-tagged vehicle with a yippy…
If you are a glass-half-full person, you might be able to look back on the 2019 General Assembly session and focus on some good-faith efforts to make life better for a significant number of Georgians, especially relating to voting and…
Twenty years ago this month, the meaning of “school safety” changed forever the day that two troubled Colorado high school seniors killed 13 people and injured 23 more at Columbine High School in Littleton, a Denver suburb, then took their…
Right at the top of the list of good things Georgia has going for it is a booming film and entertainment industry – worth about $9.5 billion a year. The industry produces good jobs, it attracts tourists and it brings…
Lessons learned from the Great Decatur Condo Flood of 2018.
It's time for state legislators to address problems that plagued the 2018 elections.
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