There is something about springtime in Georgia that makes you believe that anything is possible and that a new day may be just around the corner. I personally believe that real and lasting change tends to occur incrementally, as opposed…
In the 1930s, a group of duck hunters in New York stopped hearing that pulse-quickening rustle of wings. They were feeling the sweep of the Dust Bowl thousands of miles away, as its winds parched the birds’ breeding grounds and…
Sustainability is hardly a trend. It’s more of a movement – and it’s happening from within. In a time of slow growth, builders are shifting from fast and cheap to the affordably sustainable model. It hasn’t exactly galvanized a non-start…
Georgia’s Land Conserva-tion Program has done pretty well in a bad economy – acquiring 116,627 acres of land for easement protection since the program’s inception in 2005. Last August more than 7,000 acres along the Altamaha River were donated as…
The rumble coming from the south side of Columbus – to the tune of $2 million a day in construction work at Fort Benning – makes it seem as though the city is humming like a jet getting ready for…
Join The Crowd: Honk if you’re not running for governor this year. As of April 30, 14 candidates had qualified, seven as Democrats and seven as Republicans. Ray Boyd, who refused to take a loyalty oath to the state GOP,…
David Bookbinder sits in the reception area of the building housing the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce and speaks in slow, measured sentences as he discusses the difference between rosin and resin. Meanwhile 100 community leaders wait in a nearby…
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…
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…
Bill Cochran was talking about Widespread Panic’s grip on his soul, and he kept coming back to the word energy. “The reason I go everywhere I can to see these guys is the energy they provide. They give me something…
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