Recent Stories
Peanut Proud brand ready for its debut
Opinion Column
Blakely’s 5th annual Peanut Proud festival is set for Saturday, March 23, on the Courthouse Square, but you would be wrong to assume that this will be just a one-day celebration of the noble peanut plant on which Early County thrives.
More political chicken is sure to come
Opinion column
I am often confused over what goes on in the nation’s capital, no doubt due to my constant switching of TV news channels that lean left and right.
Vicksburg discovers itself in mighty tall company
Opinion Column
Many Southerners consider it the worst day in the region’s history: July 4, 1863.
Sparsity fund cancellation a bad gamble
Opinion column
I have never seen a place — yes, Georgia — where the k-12 public education system takes more turns for the good and then just as broadly takes giant steps backwards.
Health care a hot issue under Gold Dome
Opinion column
In a news disseminating career of four decades-plus, I have seen my share of hospital- and medical care-related controversies. Health-care companies’ attempts to overtake one another or, on another angle, governments trying to put more taxes on hospitals to help fund certain services come to mind.
There's a new sheriff in town in Blakely
Opinion column
There is a new sheriff in town in Blakely and Early County, a phrase that has not been uttered in this community in almost three decades.
New year opens with a great many promises
Opinion column
The new year, 2013, is heavily upon us. There is almost nothing more promising than a new year because of the opportunities it presents to the world.
Rural America picks bad time to nap
Opinion column
Results were posted earlier this month on the latest survey of our region of the country. I wish I had two versions of the report to offer ("first, the good news, and then the bad"). But I have only one and it's not a pretty picture.
Fears over gun control just shooting blanks
Opinion column
The looming “fiscal cliff” is getting most of the page one attention in newspapers across the land. Talking heads on television and radio can’t seem to stop discussing whether President Obama and Congress will soon make the plunge — or whether they’ll avert the economic death drop. On Main Street, however, there is another issue dominating the political talk — gun control.
Being thankful doesn’t stop with the holiday
Opinion column
Thanksgiving Day has come and gone but certainly we are not prohibited by law from continuing to express our thanks for all things great and good.
