REP. FRAN MILLAR DESERVES AN ‘A’ FOR HIS EDUCATION EFFORTS The HOPE scholarship has kept a number of Georgia’s brightest kids at home and has vastly improved the academic quality of our state’s universities and colleges. If a college education isn’t your bag, the state of Georgia also offers one of the best technical education systems in the nation. Great universities and … [Read more...] about Jan. 21, 2008: Rep. Fran Millar Deserves An ‘A’ For His Education Efforts
2008 Columns
Jan. 14, 2008: After Three Years, Nichols Case Goes Nowhere
AFTER THREE YEARS, NICHOLS CASE GOES NOWHERE Excuse me for bringing up a sore subject again, but it has been almost three years since someone who looked an awful lot like Brian Nichols overpowered a deputy at the Fulton County courthouse in March 2005, took her gun and the lives of four innocent people — a superior court judge, a court reporter, a deputy sheriff and, later, a … [Read more...] about Jan. 14, 2008: After Three Years, Nichols Case Goes Nowhere
Jan. 7, 2008: New Year Will Likely Strain My Much-Admired Tolerance And Patience
NEW YEAR WILL LIKELY STRAIN MY MUCH-ADMIRED TOLERANCE AND PATIENCE The year 2008 has begun very much like 2007 ended — still populated with too many humorless liberal weenies, narrow-minded Bible thumpers, state flaggers who couldn’t find the 21st century with a calendar, rude cell phone yakkers, poor service in two languages — depending on which button you push — and other … [Read more...] about Jan. 7, 2008: New Year Will Likely Strain My Much-Admired Tolerance And Patience
January 1, 2008: To My Grandsons: Work Hard and Have Passion
To Zachary and Nicholas Wansley, Brian and Thomas Yarbrough Thinking about what I wanted to share with you this year, I was struck at how much we — you and I — have changed since we began this annual correspondence back at the beginning of the new millennium. Zack was a newly minted teenager, and the rest of you guys were barely double-digit. Now before this year is over … [Read more...] about January 1, 2008: To My Grandsons: Work Hard and Have Passion