I spoke recently to the Peace Officers’ Association of Georgia at their annual conference in Savannah and was privileged to witness a group of dedicated law enforcement officers being honored by the POAG for their heroism. Here are their stories, much abridged because of space limitations. Marietta Police Officers Jayson Duncan and Enrique Mallen were patrolling a known drug … [Read more...] about September 4, 2016: A Salute to a Group of Unsung Heroes in Georgia
2016 Columns
August 28, 2016: Junior E. Lee Says This is One Presidential Candidate That Rocks
One of my loyal readers and a person of some political gravitas in his community says he has had a gullet full of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. He thinks having to choose between a trash-talking billionaire who can’t even unite his own party or a woman who only lies when her lips are moving to be the next President of the United States is no choice at all. He wrote to tell … [Read more...] about August 28, 2016: Junior E. Lee Says This is One Presidential Candidate That Rocks
August 21, 2016: Random Thoughts on Random Subjects like Sea Turtles, The Olympics and Vince Dooley
Lawyers, like kids, can say the darnedest things. During a recent hearing in Atlanta regarding an appeal by environmental groups of a permit allowing the Sea Island Company to construct a 350-foot long rock barrier, known as a groin that would jut out from the island’s shoreline and would create a new beach at the posh resort, opponents said the project would be detrimental to … [Read more...] about August 21, 2016: Random Thoughts on Random Subjects like Sea Turtles, The Olympics and Vince Dooley
August 16, 2016: Georgia’s ‘Paintingest’ First Lady in a Class of Her Own
Class, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. In my long years on this planet, I never met a man with more class than the late Gov. Carl Sanders. He was and remains my political hero. As has been stated many times by me and others who grew up during the period, it was through the leadership of Gov. Sanders that Georgia was spared much of the racial strife that engulfed … [Read more...] about August 16, 2016: Georgia’s ‘Paintingest’ First Lady in a Class of Her Own
August 8, 2016: A Reminder to Teachers That the Rewards Outweigh the Frustrations
Dear Public School Teachers: Although I think I am supposed to know stuff like this, I can’t understand why the school year now begins in late July or early August. I hope you do. All I know is I never started school before Labor Day and was out by Memorial Day. Somehow in that period of time I learned to read and write and add and subtract well enough that I was able to hold … [Read more...] about August 8, 2016: A Reminder to Teachers That the Rewards Outweigh the Frustrations