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The election is over and whether your side won or not, let’s all be grateful the nation is still standing and that all the political ads are gone and, hopefully, forgotten.  Now, it is time to get back to the Okefenokee. Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals  LLC is still pushing for approval from Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division to drill for titanium dioxide on 582 … [Read more...] about November 10, 2024: Proposed Expansion Could Be The Answer To Okefenokee Controversy

Spoiler alert: No talk of politics this week.  I will let the talking heads talk and political pundits pontificate and then I will tell you what really happened and why.  No applause, please.  Just doing my job. Instead, I am going to tell you about a remarkable woman doing a remarkable thing and that despite the partisan poison being spewed these days, reminds us we do have … [Read more...] about November 3, 2024: A Candy Bar Feeds an Exciting New Initiative

One of the names that comes up in the controversy regarding the possible permitting by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to allow mining for titanium dioxide on Trail Ridge at the edge of the Okefenokee by Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals is attorney Joe Hopkins, of Charlton County. To the environmental groups fighting the permitting process, Hopkins, … [Read more...] about October 27, 2024: Timber Owner Say Okefenokee Mining Ban Would Violate Constitution

It is my sad duty to tell you, dear readers, that I have once again been denied the Nobel Prize in Literature that I so richly deserve along with the 11 million Swedish krona, about $1 million, that I would have donated to my favorite charity -- me.  And then there are the 81,380 nouns, verbs, present participles and all that other stuff I so deftly created over the past year … [Read more...] about October 20, 2024: Once Again No Nobel Prize In Literature

You have to be very careful in this business when tossing out opinions.  You can get yourself in trouble if you say the wrong thing.  This is a litigious world in which we live. For example, if I say that  I think Cong. Marjorie Tylor Greene is as crazy as  a bedbug, I just might find myself facing a libel suit.  From bedbugs.  Admittedly, bedbugs don’t have the best … [Read more...] about October 13, 2024: Maybe Bedbugs Aren’t So Crazy After All