Hatchett: Week two under the gold dome
As we conclude the second week of the 2024 Legislative Session, I take pride in the General Assembly's diligent examination of our state's budgetary...
Hatchett: Week One under the gold dome
The New Year signals the start of another Legislative Session here under the Gold Dome, and I'm enthusiastic about representing the hardworking constituents of...
For the record
In an unfortunate turn of events, Judge Oliver did not grant The Orchard an injunction to stop the construction of an EMS radio tower...
Is it open season for Medicare enrollment or for snagging seniors?
Martha, Martha, are you listening? Martha? Can you hear me?
Is it Dec. 7 yet? No? Two more weeks? I can’t be the only person...
JFK’s Thanksgiving wish: Be ‘humbly grateful’ for what brings us together
On Nov. 4, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed this Thanksgiving proclamation. Little more than two weeks later, on Nov. 22, 1963, he lost his...
On Veterans Day, a 24-note bugle tune serves as a powerful reminder
Promptly at 5 p.m., every day, rain or shine, blizzard or heat, a volunteer bugler wearing a period World War I U.S. Army uniform...
On his 99th birthday, Jimmy Carter is fondly remembered for hammering in the hills...
(GA Recorder) — The lively young girl was excited about her brand-new home, as well she should be. It had been built in a...
Are we tired yet?
I don't know about you, but I am exhausted from many politicians' hammerings, hollering, hooting, and hogwash. Whether conservative, liberal, far right, far left,...
Bookman: From Clayton County to Buffalo, Biden is right about white supremacist terrorism
In March, a U.S. judge here in Georgia sentenced 48-year-old Larry Foxworth to 20 years in federal prison for firing multiple gunshots into two...
I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help
The county board of commissioners is embarking on a well-intended but poorly executed plan to erect a radio tower within The Orchard subdivision. On...
A year later, Georgia’s ‘book banning’ law normalizes censorship in schools
A year after it was enacted, Georgia’s so-called book banning law is leading to confusion and censorship in our schools.
The law, passed in April...
A grim theory on how we get gun safety laws
Nashville-based writers already have written movingly about the tragic gun crime at Covenant School, yet another school shooting — this one took the lives...