Letters & Commentary

Bookman: Naming names, former Sens. Perdue and Loeffler conspired against democracy

About the author: Jay Bookman covered Georgia and national politics for nearly 30 years for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, earning numerous national, regional and state...

JFK’s Thanksgiving wish: Be ‘humbly grateful’ for what brings us together

Fifty-eight years ago, on Nov. 4, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed this Thanksgiving proclamation. Little more than two weeks later, on Nov. 22, 1963,...

Why there’s such an impasse in Congress: Some questions and answers

WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — Congress may have kept the federal government operating with an 11th-hour flurry of votes on Thursday, but several key pieces of the...

Georgia’s troubled health care system

Editor's Note: This commentary is republished with permission from Georgia Health News. Jack Bernard, former Georgia Director of Health Planning, is a retired senior...

State legislative session nears halfway mark

WOW! It is hard to believe that the 2021 State Legislative Session is almost half over. Thursday was day 19 of the 40-day session....

A year of goodbyes

We're in the final hours of the final day of 2020 and, personally speaking, midnight can't come soon enough. While 2020 is a year most...

#braidingmywhip

I am angry. And you should be too. Halfway through Netflix’s new series called Cuties, my heart sank. Everything I’d read - all the comments posted...

State Coroner’s Association asks for public’s help to save regional ME lab

Editor's Note: The following was submitted to Now Habersham by Banks County Coroner Mark Savage who serves as 1st Vice President of the Georgia Coroner's...

It is ok to say “Black Lives Matter”

I often hear people say, “All lives matter!” in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. While this is a fundamental truth, black lives...

Teachers are on COVID-19 front lines, let them tell us what’s happening

In this moment, more than at any other time, it is non-negotiable that leaders of Georgia’s public schools operate with transparency. Georgia’s State School Superintendent...

Bookman: State needs to step up and fix voting system it bragged about

We should be proud of Georgia, or at least of its people. Their commitment to democracy, to being heard, to being counted, was impressive....

Aycock: We support Stacy for State Senate

Editor's Note: The following letter to the editor was submitted to Now Habersham for publication by Barrie Aycock. The views expressed in this commentary...