Many say that when Gov. Sonny Perdue leaves office, his legacy will look pretty grim. For instance, the regulatory arm of the Depart-ment of Natural Resources, the Environmental Protection Division, has had its budget cut by 40 percent. The mental…
Why don’t we have a visitors’ tax? More about this later. First, it is good to report that our Georgia Legislature finally accomplished something in 2010! After six years of treading water, the Georgia Republican-run House and Senate moved forward…
Georgia’s antebellum capital, Milledge-ville, is chock-full of history. From 1806 to 1868, the old capitol building in this middle Georgia city witnessed many important events. One was the 1860 vote to secede from the Union, which passed by a razor-thin…
We have had tough times in Georgia, yet have you ever noticed how some of our citizens handle adversity better than others? Science has identified what is called a resil-ience gene in people who have the ability to survive and…
Rep. David Ralston, the new Speaker of the House who replaced Glenn Richardson, is a breath of fresh air. “New wine drinks fine” as the saying goes. Richardson surrounded himself with people who despised local government. Some say Ralston must…
One wish I have for the Georgia legislature is that they give city and county governments grants to help them with economic development. The new leadership in the house is trying to find new monies to make up for the…
Georgia is in crisis over the use of its waterways and dams, thanks to a ruling by federal Judge Paul Magnuson last summer. His ruling declared that Army Corps of Engineers dams were not built for water supply. Congress intended…
Every December I write a Christmas column full of quips and quotes. The late Jimmy Townsend, the famous sage of Jasper, got me started about 40 years ago when I was editor of the weekly newspaper, The Cherokee Tribune, in…
This past year can be characterized as the worst in Georgia’s economic history, except for the Great Depression. Yet our state has had a surprisingly good run in terms of attracting new companies and new projects for economic development. The…
Despite the devastating floods in Sep-tember, we still have a water crisis in Georgia. Just last summer a federal judge issued an opin-ion in the 20-year dispute with Alabama and Florida and ruled Atlanta’s use of water from Lake Lanier…
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