2017 Columns

According to our Tweeter-in-Chief, there is a lot of fake news running around these days.  I think he is talking about the national television networks and the navel-gazers at the New York Times and the Washington Post. I don’t think he is talking about me but who can be sure what is going on inside this guy’s cranium.  Let me assure you that there are two things I … [Read more...] about May 15, 2017: The Truth Is That There Is No Fake News Here

A few years ago, I decided that what this country needed was an organization that specialized in both in-depth analysis of major political developments as well as pest control. I got the idea when I noticed that none of the skirt-chasers at Fox or the supercilious liberals on MSNBC ever talked about the maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais) and its potential impact on buckwheat. … [Read more...] about May 8, 2017: Hogs Not Happy at Being Compared With Politicians

There are few people, places or things for which I have more passion than the University of Georgia and the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications there. This love affair goes back decades to when I was an incoming junior at UGA.  I walked into Grady on the first day so nervous that I thought seriously of walking back out and going home and getting a … [Read more...] about May 1, 2017: Having a Chance to Repay a Debt Owed to My Alma Mater

There is a saying that the two things you don’t want to see made are law and sausage.  Sometimes, they are hard to tell apart.  State Rep. Bert Reeves, R-Cobb County, can speak first-hand about how the political process can stink worse than ground-up hog parts. Georgia’s adoption laws are antiquated and in serious need of updating.  The last time the state code … [Read more...] about April 24, 2017: Legislature Turns Adoption Efforts Into Political Sausage

You may have read about the sudden resignation of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley last week.  The “Luv Guv” as he was known in the local media was facing impeachment proceedings for campaign finance violations and allegations of some boy-girl hanky-panky with one of his top aides.  Bentley is the third Alabama governor to resign since the 1990s, following Don Siegelman, … [Read more...] about April 17, 2017: Georgia’s First Ladies Make Their Own Mark in State