AI, Yai Yai!

During my 17 years writing this column, I’ve learned a few lessons that I have since followed long and strong.

These should be great debates

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you have no doubt been inundated with political ads from businessman Rick Jackson and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who are running for governor; and incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican challenger Congressman Mike Collins, each vying for...

A son reminisces

My parents, Jerry and Lynn Crane, were born one week and five years apart (Dad, Aug.30, 1938, and Mom, Sept. 7, 1943), both members of the “Greatest Generation.” As a family, we always celebrated their birthdays together.This will be the fourth year Mom can no longer join us.

Mama and the renegade

Mama’s been with the Lord for a good many years now so this story happened long ago, on a lovely Spring day, when the mature trees had each turned their particular shade of green.We’d gone to lunch, then slid carefully around the twisting, turning road, some curves wound so tight they almost...

Niece searching for MIA uncle finds him at home

You may have read my accounts of Pat Boggs, my fraternity brother at UGA and a Marine Corps pilot who went missing in action during the Vietnam War.One of my columns wondering what had happened to him made it to Monterey, Calif., where his brother-in-law, Ron Breuch, filled me in on the details.

Thanks Mr. Secretary and The Supremes

Approximately 30 percent of U.S. voters cast their ballots by mail. In states like Oregon, which uses entirely mail-in balloting, it is called “Mail-In Voting.”

E-SPLOST and responsible stewardship

Dear Editor,In November, Greene County voters will consider three one-percent sales-tax initiatives.

Is a write-in candidacy right in the future?

I’ve not decided, okay?These kinds of decisions require time and a lot of thought. And I’m not talking about whether to eat my peas with a fork or a spoon or not to eat peas at all.

September weather

While I am not addicted to The Old Farmer’s Almanac unlike so many others, I am often intrigued with what I learn when I do take a dip into its contents.With the oppressive heat of the recent weeks, I searched for what the forecast allows for the next fortnight, hoping that the thermometer will be...

‘Socialistic giveaways’ bring irony

During the week of September 11th, a letter by G. Giesler sowed more partisan division by echoing Republican talking points that frame Democrats as terrible people bent on ruining the country. A few of those claims warrant clear perspective: Yes, Democrats dislike Donald Trump.