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For a number of years, I supervised a staff in Washington – first with BellSouth Corporation and then with Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games – and following that had an office in New York as member of the board of a large public relations firm. That meant almost weekly trips on Delta Air Lines, many times going up on the early morning redeye flight and back late the same … [Read more...] about March 12, 2018: Delta Execs Can’t Seem to Navigate Turbulence of External Environment

I try to live my life guided by two simple rules:  One, never eat soup with a fork and, two, try not to disagree with the county sheriff.  The first one will stain your tie something awful.  The latter will likely get you in a heap of trouble if you roll through their county acting like you own the place. So far, I am doing okay with the soup thing but it looks … [Read more...] about March 5, 2018: Three Young People Show the Positive Side Of Criminal Justice Reform

I am told there are some of you out there under the impression that my columns are actually written by an orangutan.  Not true.  There are some things even an orangutan won’t do.  Actually, I spend hours each week analyzing voluminous files of information, trying to glean a few nuggets of heretofore unknown facts and figures that you can share with your knitting … [Read more...] about February 26, 2018: It’s No Sin to Say That We Have It All In Georgia

There are few people I admire more than William Porter Payne.  In a fit of pique during my days at the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, I told an associate that I was ready to whip somebody’s butt the next time anybody criticized Payne, the organization’s founder and CEO. My associate found that commendable but reminded me that Billy Payne was ten years younger, a … [Read more...] about February 18, 2018: UGA Salute To Billy Payne Brings Back Fond Memories

This is a Valentine story.  Once, many moons ago – and we are talking a bunch of moons – I was editor of our high school’s newspaper.  One of the paper’s responsibilities, beyond publishing an occasional issue, was the annual Sweetheart Ball held each February around Valentine’s Day.  What staging a dance had to do with journalism, I never quite figured … [Read more...] about February 11, 2018: Here’s to A Valentine Story That Has No End