ZELL MILLER IS A HARD DOG TO KEEP UNDER THE PORCH This is my first column since my rotator cuff surgery and it hasn’t been easy getting the words to come out the way I intended them to. My left hand is slower than a Georgia Income Tax return and my right hand is totally unsympathetic and flies across the keyboard like a bunny rabbit. What results are some newly-minted words … [Read more...] about Jul. 20, 2009: Zell Miller Is A Hard Dog To Keep Under The Porch
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Jul. 13, 2009: Georgia Council On Economic Education Shows Our Kids Are Smarter Than Critics
GEORGIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION SHOWS OUR KIDS ARE SMARTER THAN CRITICS Okay, you Neal Boortz Kool-Aid drinkers (including those who wrote to defend your boy and couldn’t even spell his name correctly), I have a few questions for you: 1: If Andy can produce either 24 loaves of bread or eight pounds of butter in an eight-hour day, while John can produce either eight … [Read more...] about Jul. 13, 2009: Georgia Council On Economic Education Shows Our Kids Are Smarter Than Critics
Jul. 6, 2009: Perdue’s Works Overshadowed By Insensitivity To Public Perceptions
PERDUE’S WORKS OVERSHADOWED BY INSENSITIVITY TO PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS There is a saying in politics that “perception is reality” and my perception of Gov. Sonny Perdue is that he hasn’t exactly shot the lights out in his two terms as Georgia’s chief executive. There are the publicity stunts too numerous – and too embarrassing – to recount, touting his “Go Fish, Georgia” program … [Read more...] about Jul. 6, 2009: Perdue’s Works Overshadowed By Insensitivity To Public Perceptions
Jun. 29, 2009: Media Need To Remember That First Amendment Belongs To Us All
MEDIA NEED TO REMEMBER THAT FIRST AMENDMENT BELONGS TO US ALL Looking around for something appropriate to say as our nation celebrates its 223rd birthday, I happened to run across an old clipping in my files from Eugene Methvin, one of the finest journalists ever from the state of Georgia. Methvin is a local boy made good. His distinguished family were the longtime … [Read more...] about Jun. 29, 2009: Media Need To Remember That First Amendment Belongs To Us All
Jun. 1, 2009: An Open Letter To Georgia’s Public School Teachers
AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS Congratulations on completing – no, make that “surviving” – another year in Georgia’s public schools. As some of you know, I have a son and a son-in-law who are high school science teachers. I don’t know why they – and you – do it. On second thought, I do know why. My family schoolteachers tell me of students and former … [Read more...] about Jun. 1, 2009: An Open Letter To Georgia’s Public School Teachers