Crane: Another GOP family feud?

As of November 2002, the long minority party Georgia GOP, had won just two upset victories for governor and U.S. senator. Incumbent Democrats Governor Roy Barnes and U.S. Senator Max Cleland both led in almost every poll heading into the election by double digits.

Smith: Singing in the Rain

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, The swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white . . .No one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly’ And Spring herself, when she woke at...

Rich: The homeless

It was many winters ago in Washington, D.C., that I saw my first homeless person. He was lying over a warm vent atop the Metro train.

Smith: Summer’s heat

High temperatures, which have overwhelmed us lately, seem to be more intense and more enduring than I can remember.

Yarbrough: Remembering the Centennial Olympic Park bombing

Trivia Question: Where were you at 1:40 a.m. on July 27, 1996? You are forgiven if you don’t remember 29 years ago, but I can tell you where I was. Asleep. Very asleep.It was the midpoint of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.

Stone: Say yes to onions

To live beyond the pale, to work for the pleasure of working, to grow old gracefully while retaining one’s faculties, one’s enthusiasms, one’s self-respect, one has to establish other values than those endorsed by the mob.Henry MillerI visited a Waffle House this past weekend, and I noticed a...

Smith: Commissioner Tyler Harper

Near Ocilla is the home of Tyler Harper, Georgia’s commissioner of agriculture, who is more than an established politician.

Letter to the Editor: How much does Putnam County paving cost?

Dear Editor,Road conditions in our county remain a significant concern, with many roads deteriorating. Unfortunately, there is currently no funding for road improvements included in SPLOST No. 10, which will be on the ballot in November.

Letter to the Editor: Senseless

Dear Editor,Shortly after 4 a.m. on the night of Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus home in the rural town of Moscow.

Crane: Ending a bad dye job

Colorful candies and cereals, cheese slices brighter than the color of any real cheese, mac n' cheese without any real dairy, these are the food staples of my childhood and adolescence.And now, though still standing, I’m also battling a highly aggressive form of colon cancer.