Guest Commentary

Billy Hodges, a Sumter County farmer, had never heard of the “Golden Hour” of medical care following a traumatic injury. And he’s not alone. If asked, Billy would have told you what many in south Georgia assume: My local hospital…

This November, the issue of allowing school districts to participate in Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) is up for vote in Georgia. Elsewhere in the United States, these are known as Tax Increment Finance districts (TIFs), but by whatever name, throughout…

In the early 1990s I wrote a column for Georgia Trend titled, “The Unfairest Tax of All.” Today it’s much worse. The unfairness is so evident that you would think the talk show hosts and their callers, the chattering classes…

This year is the 75th anniversary of the programs usually referred to as the New Deal, enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration to help the U.S. get through the worst economic depression in its history. Was the New Deal the…

Last June, members of the joint Senate/House Transportation Funding Study Committee were warned that Atlanta – with the nation’s fourth-worst metropolitan traffic congestion – would move into second place by 2010 if present trends continued. But by September, we learned…

In a previous column I mentioned the wild idea that a worldwide minimum wage would be the most logical way to truly create a “flat world” economically. The area of West Georgia and East Alabama provides a dramatic example of…

Actually, the world isn’t flat either topographically or economically. The flat earth theory became popular among multinational business leaders and economists who wanted to eliminate trade barriers and depict the results as good for everyone: rich, poor and middle class.…

A legislator argues in favor of more toll roads and streamlining local and state agencies involved in planning.

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Look for Georgia's technical colleges to continue to play an important role in the state's economic well being.