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We dodged a potentially lethal bullet when the General Assembly wisely, if belatedly, decided that well, yes, maybe the arts really are important to the state and restored the $800,000 or so it had threatened to delete from the 2010-2011…

In one troubling 24-hour period, we learned that printed telephone directories may be on the way out for large-city dwellers in Georgia and that the U.S. Postal Service is likely to cut Saturday delivery. Losing the white pages and the…

The room was full of smart people who are used to confronting problems, coming up with solutions and taking decisive action. The occasion was a Leadership Atlanta forum, and attendees were interested in one particular problem that doesn’t seem to…

If I were a good, hard-working, committed public servant – say, a state legislator – who paid for my own meals, remained faithful to my spouse and was smart enough to make up my mind on important votes without benefit…

Probably because I once taught at a parochial school in New Orleans that provided a cash bar for PTA meetings so parents could buy drinks for their children’s teachers – nuns included, I’m having a little trouble with the flap…

I’m starting a new club – and you are invited to be a charter member. There are no dues, no meetings, no fund-raisers, no silly hats. This is the Atlanta Fan Club, and the only requirement is that you become…

We all have our “worry lists” that encompass items great, small and in-between: things that matter to the universe and things that matter only to us. The big topics on my list include world peace, the economy, global warming, affordable…

At my first real newspaper job, on a small Louisiana weekly, as the rookie reporter and the only “girl” in the newsroom, I was given a Polaroid camera and assigned the important task of photographing the weird and wonderful things…

Democracy can be loud and messy, as we have been reminded over the course of the healthcare reform debate. The comparison of law-making to sausage-making seems as apt as ever. Tracking the news coverage of the summer’s town hall meetings,…

OK, so a federal judge has said that the Army Corps of Engineers shouldn’t have allowed Atlanta to draw water from Lake Lanier for all these years, and that the metro region should have reined in its rampant growth and…