Let’s face it. We’re a blessed people. Not only do we have the oldest state-chartered university in the nation with two recent National Football Championships, 27 Rhodes Scholars (but who’s counting?), and the greatest state song in the history of the world – Georgia on my Mind, as sung by Ray Charles Robinson – but we are also home to the sweet Vidalia onion. Our cup runneth over.

AUGUSTA – Arriving here yesterday, there was that reconnecting with a place that is so magnificent that no one could imagine a one and done affiliation with this 365-acre sprawl of hallowed ground.

Count me in as one who still enjoys holding a good, local newspaper and absorbing almost every word. From the front page to the obituaries to the sports to the legals.

Sometimes, I have decided, rudeness works. Sometimes, it’s even called for. I had to do a lot of thinking on this because I advocate kindness and courtesy.

My boss and mentor at Southern Bell, Jasper Dorsey, taught me a lot about the business world. He also taught me a lot about the world beyond business.

Dear Editor, In September 2016, a Gallup poll revealed nearly 50% of Americans neither trust nor hold confidence in the men and women involved in politics who either hold office or are running for office.

Dear Citizens, I, Chief Rodricus Monford Sr, as the Chief of Police, humbly apologize for the recent mistake made in the news article regarding Mr. Tyson Cherod Waller, 18, of Eatonton.

Dear Editor, It is an election year. Three seats on the Greene County Board of Education (BOE) are being contested.

Dear Editor, On the evening of March 20, an email from members of the Executive Committee of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (MMCC) was delivered as “A Message to Our Members.”

A lot is going on at my alma mater, the University of Georgia. Not all the news has been good.